Will Patriots Owner Bob Kraft Sue the Boston Herald Over Pre-Super Bowl Spygate Story?
On Saturday, February 2, the day before the Super Bowl, the Boston Herald ran a story by John Tomase headlined, “Source: Pats employee filmed Rams.” As every football fan knows, that story set off a firestorm in the NFL world, with allegations about a Patriots employee taping the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI. There’s talk of lawsuits, Senate hearings and NFL sanctions, all emanating from that one Boston Herald story. But was the story accurate? In his Monday Morning Quarterback column, Peter King of Sports Illustrated suggests today that the story wasn’t accurate. King thinks that former Patriots employee Matt Walsh probably doesn’t have any evidence at all to show that the Patriots taped the Rams, and King writes, “All we can do is speculate on that right now, but I, for one, believe that tape does not exist.” And then King goes further than that: But if that’s all Walsh has, I’ll tell you who’s in trouble — the Boston Herald. I’d be surprised if New England owner