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...along come the cheating Patriots. The NFL must be ruing this, right? Wrong. Very wrong. "I've got to tell you, there's no one in the NFL sad about New England's issues," says Marc Ganis, president of Sportcorp, a marketing firm that has consulted for the league. "A team that is exceptional and that has controversy surrounding it offers the best possible situation...
...Patriots paradox to Bellichick. At the beginning of New England's 2001-04 run of three Super Bowl victories, he was Nice Bill, a tireless if disheveled football chess master who had finally escaped the capacious shadow of Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach for whom he had toiled as a longtime assistant. Claiming three of four Super Bowls is a truly mind-boggling feat, given that the NFL's salary-cap structure is designed to spread the wealth and prevent dominance. It takes some kind of football genius to escape the league's parity policy...
Others are still talking, including members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, set on preserving their legacy. Don Shula, who coached those Dolphins--the only team in NFL history to stay unbeaten through the Super Bowl--said if New England finished undefeated, an asterisk should be placed next to its record because of Spygate. He later recanted those remarks, but kicker Garo Yepremian insists that "a few" asterisks be attached to the Pats. Says Hall of Fame coach and ex-Buffalo Bills general manager Marv Levy: "I saw one or two other former coaches say, Oh, everybody does it. Baloney...
...satisfaction of seeing the favorites fall. And that means ratings. Patriots games have been the four most watched shows on all of broadcast television so far this season. An astounding 34.5 million people watched the Pats' finale against the Giants. A Monday night game between New England and the awful Baltimore Ravens drew 17.5 million viewers to ESPN, making it the most watched program in cable-television history, surpassing the 17.2 million who watched the debut of High School Musical 2 on the Disney Channel last summer...
...athletic citizens, so the Moss trade was particularly astonishing. The ex-All Pro had worn out his welcome in both Minnesota and Oakland and was coming off the worst season of his career. Before the deal was finalized, owner Robert Kraft met with Moss and explained life in New England. "He understood what was important to me and my family and how we run this franchise," says Kraft. "What goes on--on and off the field--is a reflection of my family name. He said to me, 'Mr. Kraft, I've made a lot of money. I want...