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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
The funny thing is what the Pats actually got in trouble for. You are allowed to send a videographer to the opponents sideline to get that perspective on the plays, but not to tape any signal calling, they turned the camera on the hand signals and broke the rules. Now this is the part that is stupid to me, you can have any other videographer in the stadium tape the same guy, just not the one standing on their sidelines.
Sorry, but I have a hard time considering it cheating when the guy giving the signals is standing right out in plain sight.
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I agree, its a silly rule, and I think football is the only one with one like it. In baseball, if the batter, base runner, or anybody else on the opposing team steals signs, it's the pitcher and catchers fault for letting them know what they're calling. That's why they cover their mouths when they talk to each other on the mound, because years ago teams would hire lip readers to sit in the bleachers with binoculars and read their lips and call the pitches to the other team. However, it IS a rule in football and the Pats got caught breaking it.