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Ex-Pats Video Assistant Meets Goodell, Specter

Posted May 13, 08 10:39 PM CDT in Sports 

(Newser) – A murmur rippled across the room as the NFL revealed the tapes provided by former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh. The cause was not some new revelation of wrongdoing by New England, which was caught last September recording opposing coaches' signals in violation of league rules.

No, the most scandalous tidbit that emerged Tuesday after Walsh spent more than six hours meeting separately with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Sen. Arlen Specter? A snippet of tape that showed not football but close-ups of San Diego Chargers cheerleaders performing during a 2002 game. Otherwise, little fresh information surfaced. Asked if he considered the Spygate investigation closed, Goodell said, "As I stand before you today, and having met with Matt Walsh and more than 50 other people, I don't know where else I would turn."

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Former New England Patriots football video assistant Matt Walsh shakes hands with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh heads in to a meeting with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Tuesday, May 13, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington.   (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gestures during a news conference following a meeting with former New England Patriots videotape operator Matt Walsh,Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in New York.   (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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