Jets fans fly 'Cheaters look up' banner over Patriots camp
Jets fans fly “Cheaters” banner over @Patriots training camp: http://t.co/0qSPzVepGx pic.twitter.com/wuqnp2aMcY
— SundayNight Football (@SNFonNBC) July 30, 2015
Like there wasn't enough going on already at Patriots camp ... a group of Jets fans flew a banner over the first day of New England's camp reading "CHEATERS LOOK UP."
The stunt was the product of @JetsFanMedia, a crew that previously started a "FireJohnIdzik.com" campaign to oust the Jets' beleaguered general manager. Idzik was bounced right after the end of the 2014 season. The reference, obviously, is to the ongoing deflate-gate/phone-gate saga involving Tom Brady and the Patriots.
"The time has come for Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft to start dealing with reality," Jason Koeppel, one of the planners behind the stunt, told Metro New York and Yahoo Sports' Kristian Dyer. "Sports fans are not stupid. We have seen this act before from disgraced former superstar athletes. People like Lance Armstrong and Ryan Braun who challenged the system after they got caught red handed. Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, A-Rod, Roger Clemens - the list of people who lied after they got caught cheating is sadly endless. Why not learn from their mistakes? Take a lesson from Pete Rose who is still banned from baseball because of the way he acted after he got caught. Give up your ridiculous campaign of lies and accept your punishment. Have some integrity. Stop this 'Tom Foolery' today.”
The Patriots remain the focus of pretty much the entire NFL establishment right now, whether it's Brady making an impressive one-handed catch or Robert Kraft signing a "FREE BRADY" poster:
Robert Kraft signed a "Free Brady" posted today. Photo from the Herald's @photowilcox. pic.twitter.com/2RqdBRR5GC
— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) July 30, 2015
Yeah, this season's going to be a fun one, whenever it finally gets here.
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