RunDaddy wrote:
If you consider it cheating, where do you draw the line? Can coaches try to determine the opposing team's signals during the game? Can a coach in the booth use binoculars to try and determine what the opposing team's signals are?
OK, there are limits. Teams shouldn't be allowed to steal playbooks, for example (considering that violations of the U.S. criminal code should certainly be off limits).
Easy. You draw the line at FREAKING VIDEO TAPING SIGNALS!!. Video taping you can get around the simple change ups in signals by going back and comparing them to what play was actually called.
If you want to try to equate sneaking a peak at the other teams calls with a calculated and dilberate efforts to film them, then fine, whatever helps the Pat fans sleep. But that is not what happened here. Thus the fine.
There is a difference between seeing some chick naked in a bedroom window when you are out on a run and hangout outside her window with a video camera.