Apparently, the Patriots don’t have to be in the Super Bowl for a word ending in “gate” to float around.
Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, a member of the Rams team that lost 20-17 to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI, brought up Spygate once again in an interview with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.
The Patriots upset the heavily-favored Rams on Adam Vinatieri’s 48-yard field goal as time expired in New Orleans. That 2001 championship was the first of the Patriots’ four Super Bowl victories.
“We could all see the tapes and see what they saw and that would end it,” Faulk said. “But we know that’s not possible.”
So Faulk isn’t really saying flat-out that the Patriots cheated, just that if the Spygate tapes hadn’t been destroyed everyone would see what the Patriots knew.
It wasn’t the first time that Faulk mentioned Spygate, and it probably won’t be the last.
[NESN.com]
