"Spygate" filmer meets with NFL commissioner

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh met with National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell for just over three hours here on Tuesday to discuss the "Spygate" scandal.

Walsh spoke about videotaping policies of the Patriots after having presented the league eight tapes of signals by opposing coaches from six games in the 2000, 2001 and 2002 seasons.

Goodell and Walsh began talking before 8 in the morning and went more than twice as long as expected. Goodell is expected to comment on the conversation later on Tuesday.

Walsh departed without comment and was to meet later on Tuesday in Washington with US Senator Arlen Specter, who has criticized the NFL's investigation and the destruction of tapes from the start of last season, fearing a cover-up.

Absent from the submitted videotapes, all a violation of NFL rules, was one of a practice session of the St. Louis Rams on the eve of the 2002 Super Bowl, in which they were upset by New England.

The Patriots have denied they ever recorded the Rams' final walkthrough before the championship game, although the Boston Herald had reported that Walsh, now an assistant golf pro in Hawaii, had such a tape.

Walsh reached a deal with Goodell to turn over any materials about the "Spygate" scandal after suggesting last January he had information about the Patriots' videotaping after working for the team from 1996 through the 2002 Super Bowl.

After the Patriots were caught videotaping coaches of the New York Jets in the 2007 season opener, they were fined 250,000 dollars and stripped of their first-round selection in last month's NFL Draft.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick was fined 500,000 dollars in the "Spygate" affair but he guided New England to an undefeated season and within seconds of a championship before the New York Giants rallied to win February's Super Bowl.

Six tapes surrendered to Goodell by the Patriots in February from the 2006 season and pre-season games in 2007 were destroyed, prompting Specter's concern.

24k- good to see ya.

R U.....Tornado on Landsdown Rd by my house was strange... I only had heavy rain and it didn't seem that bad outside. Was watching the weather reports and I thought everything missed to the west, but then to learn one was close....wow.

Good news it missed your Mother-in-law, or was it? (just kidding). Thank God. Saw pictures of England Run...If I wanted to put up with this stuff I would have moved to OK or KS. LOL

here is a post i made in reference to Kobe's first mvp

here is the story

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/8111712/How-Kobe-fina
lly-earned-his-first-MVP

i agree that Chris Paul probably was the more deserving winner this year over Kobe Bryant... but here is how i see the final weeks in the voters heads... humour me abit :-)

"ok, Kobe finally has a team and looks like he wants to play with Pau Gasol, Derrick Fisher, Lamar Odom and Jordan Farmar.. but this Chris Paul kid with the Hornets.. wow, he has taken a team that struggled for years to the top of the Western conference... young guys like David West, Tyson Chandler, vets like Peja Stojakovic and Morris Peterson sure have helped make him a worthy candidate... let's see.... o dear, it seems Kobe has NEVER won an MVP, we can't give one to this kid until Kobe gets one... maybe then he and his army of loving adoring homer fans will shut up and stop emailing us about how good he is..."

vote Kobe Bryant for MVP.... not saying he didn't deserve one this year or by now... but i am pretty sure he got more than a few votes that way... next year, it will be LeBron James who will win as he has to get one before anyone else new gets one... maybe the Cavaliers fans will stop whining about how great he is by then.. yes he is good... Bill Russell is was and always will be great. When LBJ can show us 11 rings, he can tell us how great he is...

there, my rant is done... thanks whoosh