Monday, June 30, 2008

Where have I heard that before?

John Tomase finally resurfaced today with an appearance on "Sports Tonight" on Comcast SportsNet. Tomase of course is the Patriots beat reporter for the Herald who wrote that, according to an unnamed source, the team had videotaped the walk-through practice of the St. Louis Rams before Super Bowl XXXVI. And that former Pats video assistant Matt Walsh had the tape. He gave credibility to the mother of all Spygate rumors. Turned out Tomase was a little off. As in totally wrong. The Herald apologized. Tomase apologized. Looks like Tomase keeps his job and will continue to appear on "Sports Tonight" during the football season (I give it a day till Barstool asks for a boycott on the show). That's fine. And give him credit for taking questions from Felger and Grande about the issue and being honest about it. But he had one quote that seemed very familiar. "We're moving on," Tomase said after saying he screwed up, he's sorry, he'll do better. "We're moving on." Isn't that what Bill Belichick said after the team was caught and punished for the illegal taping? "We're moving on." Yup. That's what he said. And what did guys like Tomase and Felger say about that? Mostly that Belichick was evasive and arrogant and that he owed it to the public to say more than that. I was always fine with Belichick's "we're moving on" attitude. I wonder if Tomase would agree with me now.

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