You're right. Fans do love a winner - even when they are repeatedly caught cheating. I can't wait until the end of the year to smash my phone to pieces with a hammer like Shady said he did when it was considered evidence. What happened to those equipment guys who deflated the balls for him and got thrown under the bus? Did they get the Whitey Bulger treatment? Even old Whitey fled Bostograd for LA. That's a shame. He had the skills to go far in the Pats organization. Maybe he could have stole playbooks or filmed practices for Bill. Like old times.
I know it's tough to fathom how a team in today's NFL with a salary cap and commissar Goodell in charge can win as often as the Patriots do with the other owners constantly busting his balls to dream up new and inventive ways to try to take down the Patriots.
They as an organization in that 6 million dollar sham of a Wells report were found not guilty of any wrongdoing, but commissar Goodell under orders from the rest of the members of the billionaires boys club still whacked them for a #1 draft pick and a million bucks anyway.
And again, in that report which would been better used in the latrine at NFLHQ in NYC Brady, or "Shady" as you like to call him was found not guilty, but "generally aware of wrongdoing", whatever that means, so he was suspended four games.
And what happened; he got a 4 game vacation to keep fresh and the Patriots went 3-1, only losing to the Bills because we were down to our third string QB.
So despite commissar Goodell and the Billionaire boys club best efforts, the Patriots have since gone on to appear in three Super Bowls and win two.
And as far as spygate, they did nothing wrong, they were wrong filming signals from the sideline vs the press box, but hey, fine them again and dock them another #1 pick, all they did afterward was go 16-0.
Don't worry, Brady, oh sorry, "Shady" is going to retire in another 4 or so years, Belichick we're not sure of, so the rest of the NFL will have a shot at winning soon enough.
Unless they draft another first ballot lock HOF QB in the 6th round again in the 2019 draft, then they can start this whole 17 year/5 Super Bowl win run all over again.
Just like groundhog day for the rest of the NFL.