Bellicheck is very clear ... he is playing a game with rules... and the name of the game is to win and the point of rules is for them to be bent or break them for your advantage... They have refs to catch this... if caught... you pay your fine and move on... IT AIN'T CHEATING.. This is not about honor or good versus evil or right versus wrong.. . its about playing with rules and around them...

He was not cheating by his actions in spygate either... no rules in play... anyone could have taped that stuff... How it gets spun ... even after the fine leveled and well after the fact ... is "whatever" to him... just a SANFU ...the NFL pretense of defending honor was just BS to him. (Hey... the NFL had to deal with What seemed "WRONG"... just like they decided to dock Ray Rice two games... and then took another bite of the apple with a year suspension because it seemed WRONG again... "Whatever.."

For Bellicheck... the integrity of the game is not in question... Indy had their own balls, prepped as they liked to make the tradoffs that the Indy team liked... At half time... the ref did not like his teams balls after the INdy guys complained and so they inflated them more... OK the fine of 25k is the cost.... whatever.
This is just the American way of doing business..

Sorry if you thought of your NFL football team as noble warriors defending your town's honor and contesting who played better that day...

It comes down to the SNL guys being correct... Will the equip manager rat out his quarterback and team? It's too bad that the US took all of the torture techniques off the books... What better way to get at something that bothers American's sense of honor and fair play. (GRIN)