Apparently the Commish would like the Patriots to hand over any similiar videos they have. This brings up several concepts to me.
1. What can he really do if the Pats just do nothing? It isn't like he can search Gillette as if they would be there to be found now. Can he get a search warrant?
2. With the tape in question now airing within a week, wouldn't all of the tapes Belicheck hands over eventually become public. Meaning instead of the Pats having video of everyone's signals, everyone would have video of everyone's signals.
3. Has anyone ever seen the security camera system they have at Gillette and what it is capable of?
http://www.csoonline.com/read/010104/nfl.html
The league strongly encourages that stadiums have digitally based surveillance. For an older stadium, that can be a tremendous expense, costing up to a half-million dollars without producing any revenue. But the effectiveness of digital surveillance on security is hard to dismiss. At the New England Patriots' stadium in Foxborough, Mass., the security personnel can pan the entire Gillette Stadium with their digital camera system and zero in on a single seat if necessary. Now, if someone throws a snowball at a game official, the security team can quickly retrieve a digital image of the incident, print out an instant photo of the fan with his arm cocked back, ready to throw. And when security approaches him to escort him out of the stadium, there is no argument. They simply show him the photo and walk him out to the gate.
This is why FIFA has most of the World Cup matches in Foxboro, which is were the system originated from at the old stadium. This camcorder stuff is nonsense it is for road games.
