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The Patriots: Bill Belichick Spygate Scandal
The Cheatriots The Patriots have committed many scandals, but the most surprising is the Bill Belichick Spygate Scandal in 2007. This wrongdoing was so the Patriots could know what the other team was going to do by studying what they do beforehand. The people who were involved in this scandal included the Patriots football team, Bill Belichick, and the Jets football team. The Patriots coach, Bill Belichick, decided that he wanted to videotape the their opposing team’s moves. The team he had vidioed was the Jets, and he had told his team about what they were going to do. The patriots were able to predict what the opposing team was going to do because of this event. Unfortunately for the Patriots, they were exposed when they started to take

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