you honestly think there's a level playing field in sports? There never is. The human factor or nature is take advantage of opportunities whether it's player, a coach or a biased or betting ref.
All of this show that you're a sleeze who would probably steal from a collection plate in church if you thought you could get away with it. There are few arguments so dumb as, "Why punish the Pats for cheating, EVERYBODY does it!" First of all, you have no way of knowing what everybody does, and, if nothing else, given their scumbag history, the Pats are certainly clumsier or "unluckier" than everybody else, aren't they? And, secondly, even if your premise was true, what would you have the NFL do-
NOT punish the Pats when they get caught until "everybody else" is punished, too? Belicheat is such a turd, he not only insults our intelligence by trying to claim that he, one of the most hands-on, small-attention-to-detail coaches EVER, knew nothing about all of this, he, in effect, threw Brad under the bus while doing so. And, in classic "passing the buck" fashion, Pretty Boy seems to have thrown the equipment manager under the bus, which is probably the only person who is gonna suffer from all this-at least not until the Big Game is over, anyway.