"Camera-gate" photo debunked

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The site touchdown.org has what appears to be a screen-shot photograph from the CBS broadcast of Sunday's New England-N.Y. Jets game.

 

The image has made the cyberspace rounds and alleges to show a cameraman on the Jets sidelines, clearly directed toward the team and coaching staff, not looking out at the action on the field. The legitimacy of the photo is incredibly suspect:

Still, the whole story reeks pretty strongly and, given the swirling accusations of cheating from the NFL itself, it does not look good for the New England organization. Makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking in this day and age where every game is recorded from multiple angles and then over-analyzed afterward.

 

But you be the judge.

 

(By the way, the photo stands in pretty sharp contrast to SI's cover shot this week, doesn't it? Also, thanks to reader Myles Baker for sending along the always sober-analsyis of the situation from Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe. Demands Baker: "If you're going to ask people to 'be the judge' give the Cold, Hard Football Facts and all of them!")

 

 

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By Kerry Byrne