John Harbaugh: Pats titles have asterisks

[Auggie]

espn.com / 5-1-12

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Tuesday morning he thought the New England Patriots' three championships won under Bill Belichick "got asterisks now" and have been "stained" by the Spygate scandal that rocked the team in 2007.

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"In the end, everything is brought before the light of day, when it's all said and done," Harbaugh said on "98 Rock" in Baltimore. "What happens, even the thing in New England, no matter whether those things had any impact on whether they won their championships or not, they got asterisks now. It's been stained.

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ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi, who was a linebacker on all three of the Patriots' title teams in the early 2000s and was with the Patriots in 2007 when the Spygate scandal broke, said he was perplexed by Harbaugh's comments.

"You want to take a shot, go ahead and say it," Bruschi said on Tuesday's "SportsCenter." "When I look down at my hand and I see championship rings, I know how much work had to be put in to win those championships. I'm very set and secure with all of the victories that we had, the work we put in."

MORE: http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/7877552/john-harbaugh-baltimore-ravens-says-new-england-patriots-titles-tainted-spygate

What does The Group think?

BTW, Week 3, 2012: Patriots @ Ravens.

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[trotsky]

1. The key is right here:

"no matter whether those things had any impact on whether they won their championships or not"

I strongly suspect they didn't - not more than any other team trying to figure out their opponents' signals - but we'll never know. Harbaugh has a point.

[madinmaryland]

2. I wish BossHOG was still around. He would still be fired up by Spygate.

Is BossHOG actually John Harbaugh??

[joeybee12]

3. Harbaugh is latin for "major fucking asshole"

Just as awful as his brother, apparently.

[MrSlayer]

4. As a fan of a team that lost one of those games, I say they're legit.

The Eagles should have been up 28-0 in the first quarter but they blew their opportunities and let the Pats stay in the game. In the second half New England adjusted and killed us. Having viewed a walk through did nothing to improve their chances as, again, the Eagles should have been killing them. They won fair and square.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. I don't believe in asterisks.

For anything. Except for trumad.

[El Supremo]

7. Not even this one?

[bigwillq]

9. I believe in them.

If there's evidence that one has created, there should be an asterisk attached.

[RagAss]

6. Your kicker missed a chip shot...get over it Assclown !

[bluedigger]

8. You can tell how effective their cheating was by comparing their record before and after spygate.

Right?