[bell tolls]
[Patrick Aramini] I grew up in the old Hoboken. It was tough.
I was an altar boy myself.
I learned you have to have faith in people.
That really gave me an inner feeling to be a good cop.
- [camera shutter clicks] - Initially, I was in narcotics.
Worked deep undercover operations.
If you go deep undercover,
you're hanging out with them, eating with them, drinking with them.
You're meeting their families.
But once it's over, you gotta go back to reality.
Be honest with you, I had a lot of guilty feelings
after I got done working undercover.
It was actually the betrayal.
I just couldn't do that to people.
So I called the superintendent.
And I says, "I gotta get out of here. I want to transfer."
He goes, "Where do you want to go? You can go anywhere you want."
I said, "I want to go to the Meadowlands."
[crowd chanting] J-E-T-S!
Jets! Jets! Jets!
[Aramini] My nickname was Mayor of the Meadowlands.
I dealt with security at the stadium.
We had the football games.
The fans getting drunk.
But in my 35-year tenure down there, never had, really, any problems.
Until the day of the Spygate.
[reporter] Patriots video assistant caught aiming a camera
at the play calling signals of a New York Jets coach, a violation of league rules.
[talk show guest] They were blatant about this, and they got caught!
[talk show guest 2] It's premeditated!
[analyst] All of a sudden, the Patriots are looking like a dirty franchise.
[analyst 2] Their reign, their dynasty, is under fire now, under attack.
[analyst 3] It would be out of character, but nice,
if Bill Belichick would stand up and answer questions.
[analyst 4] The tape will not lie.
[crowd chanting] Defense! Defense!
[announcer] You have your arch-rival here, the Colts and the Patriots.
Tom Brady, the king of the comeback.
But this time he's down four, with 24 seconds to go.
I don't even think Peyton's gonna watch.
Brady fires.
Intercepted!
[cheering]
Colts are going to the Super Bowl!
[Tom Brady] It was really tough.
Whoever won that game was probably gonna win the Super Bowl, and we could have.
We didn't, but we could have.
[Bill Belichick] In football, if you can't control the game,
then, ultimately, I think your opponent's gonna wear you down,
and they're gonna end up where you want to be.
[reporter] Is the Patriots dynasty over?
[reporter 2] Now that Indianapolis has burst the dam,
I think that the dynasty is crumbling.
[reporter 3] This offense played lousy
and definitely lost some of that aura of invincibility.
[Josh McDaniels] I look back on that game. The offense,
we didn't get out in front enough and we couldn't score enough to beat 'em.
Right away, going into that off season, Bill and I,
we talked about, we got to find some new offensive blood.
A receiver who's an alpha player.
Like a guy who's gonna hang 50 on you.
I'm going inside a club, and my phone rings.
"Hello?"
[deep voice] "Uh, hey, Randy, it's, uh, Coach Belichick."
And I... "What?"
I said, "This is Bill Belichick of the Patriots."
He goes, "What?" And hung up the phone.
I'm like, "Maybe he doesn't want to come to New England."
So then I called him again.
"Hello?"
"Uh, Randy, this is Coach Belichick." And I'm sitting there like,
"Who the hell keeps playing on my phone?"
And he's like, "All right, now who is this? Like, this is a prank."
And so, I go, "No, no, this is Bill Belichick, and we've traded for you."
[Moss] He cut straight to the chase. He said, "Look, man,
if you're not up here by 10:00 tomorrow morning, no trade."
And I'm like, "Oh, shit. I just hung up on Bill."
Me and a couple of my boys were sitting at a table,
and I've ordered a 12-pack of Corona.
Man, I held one of my Coronas, I said, "I'm gonna be a Patriot!"
[male reporter] Randy Moss, acquired by the Patriots in a trade Sunday morning.
Welcome to New England, Randy.
[female reporter] He is arguably the most physically talented receiver
in the entire NFL.
[analyst] With Moss catching passes from Tom Brady,
they have to be considered front-runners to win it all.
[presenter] They made their offense so much better,
and I still like Belichick in any big game,
so I think they're the team to beat.
[cheering]
[announcer] Back here at the Meadowlands. Football is back.
[crowd chanting] J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets!
Let's get ready.
Let's get ready, boys.
[Moss] It's my first game as a Patriot.
During training camp, we'd run plays, but it really wasn't full speed.
So I still haven't hit that extra button yet.
We're driving.
Next thing you know, Tom Brady says, "Hey, man. Just get open."
[announcer] Here he is again. Like a statue in the pocket.
Able to go long for Moss!
[Moss] Everybody watched the movie Forrest Gump.
Do you remember when Forrest Gump busted out them chains?
They're supposed to straighten his legs out.
Remember his facial expression, how he was running,
them chains came off, and then Forrest Gump's eyes are just...
That's how I felt.
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] Moss has his first touchdown as a Patriot.
[announcer 2] Randy Moss is one of those guys.
Nobody catches up to him.
We killed them. Let's go!
I remember being on the sideline at the Meadowlands going, "Holy shit,"
like, "This is gonna be fun."
I had no clue what was about to happen.
It was just your normal Sunday.
The Patriots, they're winning. Nothing unusual.
But then, all of a sudden,
the security people from the Jets came to us with this camera.
They said, "We have an issue."
- [beep] - "One of the Patriots' photographers
has been videotaping and spying on our coaches and our plays."
The camera is confiscated.
But nobody had any fucking idea what to do.
The Patriots would say, "That's my fucking property."
The Jets were saying,
"You're fucking spying on us. We don't want you to have it."
I told him, "Possession is nine-tenths of the law. I'm in possession of it.
It's staying with me until we decide what we're gonna do with it."
And that was the most common-sense thing to do.
Turn it over to the NFL and let them decide.
[reporter] Some suspense as the NFL is looking into this.
What was a Patriots employee doing with a camera
trained on Jets coaches Sunday in New Jersey?
The cameraman in question was looking, quote, "scared to death."
[analyst] It's all allegations at this point,
but if it's true, this has major ramifications.
One thing we know for sure, the media and the other teams
- are having a field day. - Yes, they are.
There's buzz around the league about the Patriots' Spygate situation.
- [reporter] Spygate... - [reporter 2] Spygate...
[reporter 3] Spygate.
[reporter 4] This story is a mushroom cloud.
It's bigger than I thought it would be. It's just, it's huge.
[man speaking Chinese]
Now, look at this. See, that's a camera.
- [audience laughs] - That's how the Patriots were cheating.
- [audience claps] - Maybe this is just fine in New England,
but here, ladies and gentlemen, uh, no dice.
- [man] No. - [laughter]
[Roger Goodell] Protecting the integrity of the game
is one of the most significant things a commissioner needs to do.
Every coach, every player, even the 32 owners.
They know my responsibility as commissioner,
and they know I'm not going to compromise that.
I heard about the issue late Sunday evening.
And so, beginning first thing Monday morning,
you have to go through a process of finding out
whether they did violate the rules.
[reporter, on radio] With New England, some intrigue.
The NFL is confirming that they have confiscated the camera and tape
of a Patriots employee on the sideline.
He was possibly stealing the Jets' defensive signals.
That's why the Jets' defense stunk. It was espionage.
[Glaser] The Monday after the game, it was my first day with the Patriots.
I came in as mainly a liaison to the league.
The first piece of paper that I looked at
was a letter from Commissioner Goodell essentially saying,
"We're going to be investigating claims you have committed some rule violations."
Immediately, I knew something very serious was up.
[indistinct chatter on speakerphone]
The league wanted to send investigators to speak with members of our video crew.
Bill, of course. And Ernie Adams.
[inaudible]
This was my first interaction with Ernie
and understanding the historian, the scholar, the genius of Ernie Adams.
[Willie McGinest] Ernie Adams... I don't even know how to describe him.
We used to see this guy walking around. He had these glasses, this moustache.
Always talking to Belichick in private.
They were always, like, kind of whispering.
[Damien Woody] Ernie Adams being at the center of Spygate
made perfect sense to me.
He's a football savant.
Ernie Adams is... a genius.
There's not one detail that Ernie Adams would not know about.
Just so you know, on this whole video thing...
- [interviewer] The video thing? - The Jets game in 2007.
- [producer] Oh. - Okay, I just...
- I'm... I'm not gonna re-open that. - [interviewer] We have to talk it--
Yeah, right, just so you know, I mean, this is...
You're not... I'm not... I'm...
Could I tell you stories? Yes. Am I going to? No.
I got some... [stammers]
It's going to the grave with me a little bit.
[interviewer] Well, let's just talk about it, we'll see where we go.
[Adams] We just sat down in the room.
I think there were three people from the league and I was there.
They were on a fact-finding mission.
They were trying to determine what exactly had happened.
The biggest thing everybody has to understand
is there have been plenty of teams in the history of the National Football League
who have tried to take another team's signals.
You know, that's why you see a lot of coaches trying to cover their mouth.
It's part of the game.
I always figured other people are filming our signals.
And I know in some cases, they were.
It's, you know, kind of basic counterintelligence.
[Kurt Fox] Jay, I've heard somewhere you might have gotten your hands on this tape?
Yes, absolutely, Kurt. Check this out.
Video assistant clearly picking up the Jets' defensive coach's signals.
The reason why you do that is you study these hand signals.
"Hey, they're running this blitz, they're running this coverage."
[reporter] An entire system of covert videotaping was developed
and a secret library created.
During games, Adams then sat in the coaches' box with binoculars
and notes of the decoded signals with direct audio to Belichick.
They literally had the answers to the test before it was given.
[interviewer] I know that this is a difficult subject.
But in 2007,
you were caught videotaping opposing teams' signals.
Yeah. Again, that's all in the past, and I've...
I've made my comments on that.
I don't have anything to add.
Some might argue in a game of inches, putting that kind of information,
where you could decode signals, come up with specific plays
to use in real time in a game is pure gold in the NFL,
that could be the difference between winning and losing.
Again, you can get those same signals by sitting up in the press box
and writing down what the signal is and what the play was,
and... and doing it that way.
Those signals are available to anybody who wants to see them.
But they don't have them on tape.
We videotaped them. It wasn't anything that wasn't visible or wasn't available.
We did it in a way that was more convenient,
that we could study better.
"Videotaping of any kind, including but not limited to
taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals,
is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches' booth, in the locker room,
or at any other locations accessible to club members during the game."
- That seems pretty crystal clear, Bill. - Right.
Well, it clearly was a mistake.
And some people would say that mistake was just flat-out cheating.
And I interpreted it incorrectly. So I was wrong.
Others have argued that you chose to gamble, to risk breaking the rules,
and got caught.
And it wasn't a misinterpretation of any kind.
Well, I can't control what other people think out there.
I'm telling you what happened. That's what happened.
You will never convince me that Bill Belichick,
the most ardent student of football that I've ever been around,
doesn't know the rules.
I just think he thought, "I'm smarter than everyone else.
No one's gonna even know what I'm doing."
And that's a great way to get caught. [chuckles]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[presenter] The NFL is getting ready to announce
whether the New England Patriots cheated.
[analyst] They have every right to go after Bill Belichick,
and I've got no problem with any sort of suspension.
[presenter] This is a huge, damning thing to the franchise, a huge deal,
damning personally to Robert Kraft.
[Robert Kraft] You know, I couldn't believe it.
I went right over to Bill and I said, "Let me ask you something, Bill.
How important to us
is something like that on a scale of one to 100?"
And he said to me, "One."
I said to him, "Then you're a real schmuck."
Look, I was pissed with Bill.
But when you have division from within,
it can be very destructive and dangerous.
So, I protected Bill.
I talked with the lawyers from the NFL office.
I said, "Look, fine Bill, fine us.
Do whatever you got to do, but don't suspend him."
We tried to protect his reputation.
The three-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots
and their coach, Bill Belichick, have been punished for spying on their opponents.
[reporter] The NFL fined Belichick himself half a million dollars.
...five hundred thousand dollars, the team another 250,000,
plus at least one first day draft pick.
[reporter 2] Even though the punishment was unprecedented,
there are a lot of people in the league who feel it should've been more severe.
[Cris Collinsworth] Belichick should've been suspended
for at least a couple of games.
[Michael Strahan] You have to wonder if the Kraft factor came into play.
Robert Kraft is so beloved in the NFL offices.
[MacMullan] Robert Kraft is one of the most powerful owners in sports.
He's got a tremendous amount of power and influence.
It's just how it works. Is it fair?
Usually not, in my estimation.
[Glaser] Anything left open was media fodder.
And it was gonna be a story.
And so the NFL flew security personnel in again.
And it was decided that we would destroy the tapes on premises.
So, I remember walking down the hallway and asking someone for a hammer.
And they took the hammer to the tapes.
And I'm on my hands and knees in a dress and high heels
picking up the tapes and throwing them away.
I remember thinking to myself...
"All the news cycles. All the commentary.
This is done. It's over. We've been fined. This is over."
That is not at all what happened.
[camera shutters clicking]
[reporter] So, why did you destroy the tapes?
Because we had an admission of guilt, there was no purpose for the tape.
The tapes are competitive.
I didn't want them to have access to that, and I don't want the other 32 teams...
How would anyone get access to it if you had it in your possession?
The same way, unfortunately, it got out to the media a week after we discovered it.
So, unfortunately, there are ways in which tapes get out.
From my standpoint, there was no purpose for it.
That's why I destroyed all his notes and all his tapes. Okay, thank you.
- [reporter] Thank you, commissioner. - Okay.
[analyst] The league, the Patriots, they just want this Spygate thing to go away,
but a lot of people around the league are still thinking,
"Hey, New England was caught cheating and it's a black mark on their success."
[reporter] This is a man who was establishing his coaching legacy,
and now and forever,
it becomes incumbent upon whoever writes the ultimate story about Bill Belichick
to put that he cheated.
Here is the flat facts. Bill Belichick, you are now known as a cheater.
Cheater. How does that sound?
That doesn't sound too good, and it's embarrassing
not only to yourself, Bill, but to your players.
You've hurt your ownership, you've hurt the fans in the city.
All because of your arrogance.
[camera shutters clicking]
I know there's a lot of interest here on the, uh,
you know, the situation decision last night.
But, as I stated, it's over, um, and we're moving on.
And right now, all my energy and focus and attention
is, um, on the San Diego Chargers and that game Sunday night.
So that's where we're at.
[reporter] Bill, tell us why you've never actually stood in front of people
and expressed remorse.
Right now, we're focusing on what's in front of us,
and that's the Chargers.
We're moving on.
Okay, thank you.
[Michael Holley] As a columnist, I'd spent a lot of time with Bill,
and I felt like I knew him.
[camera shutters click]
But with Spygate, I saw a different Bill.
Nobody ever thinks that when they reach the top
that they're gonna change. Nobody thinks that.
But they do.
Three Super Bowls in four years, coach.
Surely the word "dynasty" has to be something now you think about
when you talk about your football team.
After multiple championships, there's hubris.
To Belichick, rules don't apply to him.
And he doesn't like being called out. Period.
He was called out by the commissioner, the media.
And he was called out by Eric Mangini and the Jets.
This whole scandal all started a couple of days earlier
in the Patriots' first game of the year,
when Bill’s former assistant coach and friend, Eric Mangini,
now the head coach of the Jets, ratted him out.
[crowd chanting] J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets!
[reporter] The Jets have their home opener against the Patriots.
Jets head coach Eric Mangini will face his mentor Bill Belichick.
[Joe Theismann] Just think about it. It's like father and son. It's coach, protégé.
That's a bond that can never be broken.
Eric Mangini knows that they're gonna be taping him,
because he, as an assistant, would witness the Patriots taping opponents.
So he tells the league, "They've got cameras. Watch them."
Eric Mangini, of all people. Belichick mentee, his guy.
I respect the commissioner's decision and anything related to the decision.
Anything associated with the decision is really a league matter.
- [reporter] Thank you. - Thanks, guys.
[Aramini] Betrayal.
It's just terrible, you know, emotionally.
And sometimes it's very tough to... to swallow.
Mangini. Did he rat his former boss out?
Well, unless these guys took a bond, omertà,
when they all worked for the Patriots,
if you're there and there's a history of doing this illegal filming,
every coach that came through there, they know about this.
The unspoken rule is that when you leave the family, you leave the family.
You honor the opportunity that was given.
You don't make a mess.
You remember how you got your first step in the door.
You don't make a mess.
Bill was very close with Eric.
And his very normal human reaction was a feeling of betrayal.
And he distanced himself from those of us that were closest to him.
[cheering]
[Pioli] You could feel a certain type of energy in that building.
A certain type of anger.
A certain type of vengeance.
[cheering and whistling]
[Lester Holt] It has been a very rough week for a storied NFL franchise,
and when the New England Patriots take the field later tonight
against the San Diego Chargers, it will be under a dark cloud.
All right now, look, I don't want to say anything about this Jet thing, okay?
Just shut the fuck up.
Just worry about ourselves, our team.
Everybody else is gonna say what they wanna say. We can't control that.
But we can control what we're talking about and what we're doing, okay?
We got a lot of work to do.
[crowd cheers]
[Al Michaels] Welcome to Foxborough. This is a tremendous matchup,
but first, Spygate, Videogate, Cameragate, whatever you want to call it.
The Patriots were thought of as one of the model franchises.
That image has taken a whack this week.
They're telling us these are frequency coordinators
monitoring the frequencies tonight.
So, Bill Belichick in the crosshairs, there's no question about that.
[John Madden] Right. Does this affect the team?
[Brady] Hike!
[Michaels] Brady, second and nine,
and the pass is caught by Moss for a touchdown!
[Madden] This guy is amazing.
[Michaels] It's almost as if the Patriots said, "We don't need any cameras."
[Moss] All week I'm hearing all this stuff about Spygate.
It made me think back to Mr. Kraft telling me,
"Hey, through thick and thin, we're family here."
Just a special moment for me, because it was something that I was searching for.
And he just said, "What I mean by family, you hold everybody accountable.
I don't care if you're at the bottom or if you're at the top,
if you get in trouble, I get in trouble.
That's football family."
Hey! We are not finished! We ain't done.
We are beating their ass for 60 minutes, all right?
[Michaels] Brady. Open. Randy Moss. Touchdown.
[crowd cheers]
[Michaels] So, the Patriots, with all the tumult over the past week,
have been picture perfect.
[Michaels] And it's funny how, you know, you circle the wagons,
and right there, they're circling the wagons.
[inaudible]
[chatter]
I hope you appreciate this question, coach.
Say, fellas, how we feel about playing for Bill Belichick?
[all] Aw, yeah!
[Tedy Bruschi] After the whole Spygate thing, we had a lot of emotions for Bill.
Hate. Love.
I mean, everything... everything. But he was ours.
And everybody's just going after our coach.
[crowd jeers]
[man in crowd] Cheaters!
[Bruschi] Bill would never express how he despised everything that was said.
Like trying to invalidate everything that we've done because of a signal.
But this is how we knew when he felt it. That offense kept scoring.
[Joe Buck] Brady to throw.
Randy Moss goes up and gets it. Sixth touchdown of the season.
Bill was just relentless.
We'd be up by 20, 30 points.
And he's telling the offense, "Do it again."
[Buck] Brady going deep for Moss at the goal line.
Oh, did he catch that? Touchdown.
New England leads 42 to 7.
[Bruschi] We're beating people's ass so bad that we're the bad guys.
Sort of liked it, though.
[Buck] Brady going for Randy Moss in the end zone.
This is unbelievable. This is unbelievable!
[Moss] Each week, Bill wanted to take the jugular.
[commentator] To Moss. Touchdown.
I appreciate his killer instinct.
I'm a bad motherfucker too, now.
[announcer] On the hitch. Brady for Moss.
Guarded by two, another touchdown!
A shooting gallery for New England today.
[Donté Stallworth] Spygate. We all took it personal.
We're not out here just to win games. We're out here to fucking make you quit.
We want to... We want to do very bad things to you.
[Buck] Brady... hits Stallworth in stride.
He's gonna take it in for a touchdown.
[Moss] What the fuck was Dallas thinking?
Man, what the fuck was the Dallas Cowboys thinking?
Forty-eight in their house. Make 'em pay.
[Rodney Harrison] Our goal was to blow everybody out the water.
Fuck 'em all. That's our mentality.
That's our little thing. Fuck 'em all.
[announcer] Campbell loses the football.
Colvin takes it to the end zone for a Patriots touchdown.
Patriots are now averaging just over 41 points per game.
All right, congratulations, men. That's shut 'em the fuck up.
- [laughter] - Yeah!
[Belichick] Let's handle this one the way we always do.
It's not the first time we've won a game. We got a long way to go, all right?
So I'm telling you, don't come in here Wednesday, all right,
like it's fucking YMCA camp, all right, because it's not gonna be.
That... I will promise you. It'll be a work day.
[players chattering, cheering]
Hey, Bru, go on kick that music on.
- ["Another One Bites the Dust" playing] - Oh, yeah, Bru!
[players cheer]
- I'll tell you, here we go, here we go! - [cheer]
[Bruschi] Bill never told us not to celebrate.
We gonna play this song. Come on!
You gotta learn this to survive under Bill Belichick.
"We just did everything you wanted us to do for that Sunday,
and we got your message. We got this right now, Bill, don't worry."
Bam, to the locker room. Push play, "Another One Bites the Dust" would play.
It was our little time to say, "We did that shit. Again."
How about serving up some fresh hot humble popcorn?
[players cheer]
[announcer] Direct snap, Brady. He stands in the pocket,
he fires down the field and it is caught left side. Touchdown!
Easy as pie on that one.
[Cris Carter] This is a team that can go undefeated.
- You think they can go undefeated? - [analyst] Yes.
This football team can go undefeated.
[announcer] ...for Brady, the pump, the throw. It is...
- caught for the touchdown! - [announcer 2] 12 and 0!
[announcer] From the end zone, passed picked,
and an easy touchdown for New England.
[announcer 2] The Patriots' pursuit of perfection continues.
[announcer] A perfect 14 and 0.
- [roars] - [player] We own that shit, too!
[roars]
[announcer] Brady, with time...
["Another One Bites the Dust" continues]
[announcer] Touchdown, Patriots!
The Patriots go through a regular season 16 and 0.
[yells]
[reporter] Let's be honest, Bill Belichick and the Patriots
focusing in on just one record, and that is 19 and 0.
They gotta win the Super Bowl.
I care about one game in February. You know?
[Michaels] Patriots take the field for the AFC championship game.
One step from the Super Bowl.
Touchdown, New England.
The Patriots, 18 and nothing.
They are unbeaten going to Super Bowl 42.
[fireworks crackle]
[players chant and whoop]
[Charlie Rose] The Super Bowl will be played this Sunday in Glendale, Arizona.
The New York Giants will face off against the undefeated New England Patriots.
[reporter] If the Giants win, it'll be one of the greatest upsets.
If the Patriots win and go 19 and 0,
we'll be experiencing a holy moment
in the history of the National Football League.
[crowd cheers]
[Adalius Thomas] We're going back, baby. We're goin' to the motherfucking show.
[Moss] We just won AFC Championship.
And now? We got the fucking Super Bowl.
- One more, fellas. - [indistinct chatter]
[Moss] I'm sitting up here thinking, like, the perfect season.
We're just one game from making it happen.
Tunnel vision. Ain't no playing.
Here it is, it's time to rock.
Going to the Super Bowl!
Congratulations, buddy.
[Kraft] Having won three Super Bowls and now going to another,
we'd been blessed and almost a little spoiled.
I thought it was God's hand at work.
But, this time,
it was just the reverse.
[chuckles] It was the devil at work.
[Kraft] Leading to the Super Bowl, we had the devil playing everywhere he could,
facilitating things that weren't in our interest.
[reporter] Tom. How are you doing, Tom?
How's the foot?
[Pioli] Tom had hurt his ankle in the AFC championship game,
and less than two weeks before the Super Bowl, he's in New York.
At the time, he was dating a big-time model and his future wife, Gisele.
[reporter] Gisele, will you be there with him at the game?
And the New York paparazzi get a shot of him wearing a boot.
[camera shutters click rapidly]
And it starts this firestorm.
[reporter] Tom Brady was seen
outside his girlfriend Gisele Bündchen's apartment
here in New York yesterday wearing a cast.
Look, Tom Brady has a slightly sprained ankle.
He's trying to be protective with it. It's not a big deal.
It's certainly relevant. When the quarterback of a team
that is trying to make history and probably the greatest quarterback ever
is injured before the biggest game of the season.
[chants] Let's go, Giants! Let's go, Giants! Let's go, Giants!
[indistinct chatter]
Tom, man, good luck in the Super Bowl, man.
[reporter] Tom Brady and the New England Patriots
arrived Sunday in Arizona for the Super Bowl.
He admits he did injure his ankle a week ago,
but says he's ready to go next Sunday.
[Kraft] When the New York media picked up the thing with Tommy with the boot,
that was the beginning of a very difficult Super Bowl week.
People said things and put things out there
that allowed the haters to come out in droves.
Well, another day, another little piece of intrigue,
as we get set for the Super Bowl.
Six years ago, the Saint Louis Rams played the role of the massive favorite.
The Patriots start in the role the Giants will be enjoying Sunday.
[Scott Van Pelt] Now the Boston Herald reports
a source close to New England at that time
says a member of the Patriots' staff filmed the Rams' final walkthrough.
[Holley] Splashed on the back and front pages of the Boston Herald
was this revelation that the Patriots
recorded the Saint Louis Rams
before Super Bowl 36.
People immediately came out and said,
"No wonder they won the game. They were cheating!"
[reporter] I think that what we're really talking about here is fair play.
The edict of fair play.
This is impactful. This is changing games.
You are now getting inside the other teams' huddle. You know what's coming.
I don't care what you say. That's a problem!
[Jonathan Kraft] The story was absolutely not true.
And I told the editors of the Boston Herald
in no uncertain terms that if they didn't retract that story,
we were gonna come after them guns a-blazing.
I think I said something to the effect then, you know,
"We're gonna own your paper pretty soon."
And if the paper was worth owning, we would've owned their newspaper.
But it wasn't something worth owning.
Ultimately, the Boston Herald ran a full apology.
But the damage had already been done.
[reporter] Super Bowl 42. The revelations recently about Spygate
further fuel the public perception
that what the Patriots have accomplished is tainted.
[crowd chanting] Boston sucks! Boston sucks!
That Super Bowl, it was like you've got the cheater.
It's the New England Patriots. That's how the country saw them.
They've got the pretty boy quarterback.
They've got the coach who's a rule-breaker.
So we'll watch for that.
We'll hate-watch them.
[Buck] The Patriots trying to go 19 and 0,
and the New York Giants trying to shut it down.
Everybody talkin' about a dynasty.
Our dynasty starts today.
[Michael Strahan] By that point, the Patriots had become the villain.
That's what the energy of the building was.
It felt like darkness against light, good against evil.
[Buck] Tom Brady and company head to work.
[Strahan] We understood Tom Brady's the catalyst
for how well that offense worked.
So we had to hit him almost every time he dropped back.
Let's kick the devil's ass.
[Verdi's Requiem Mass playing]
[Strahan] To sack Tom Brady is special.
Not because he's cuddly and soft, which he is,
but it's like a Christmas gift.
I just... I just wanna open that present over and over again.
I never get sick of it. [laughs]
[Verdi's Requiem continues]
[Buck] Tom Brady has been under fire all night.
This New England offense, which was the highest scoring offense
in the history of the league,
held in check by the Giants defense.
Ten-seven, the Giants leading here in this final quarter.
[Moss] You know, me and Tom,
we were struggling most of the game.
[Buck] You know, all the talk about his ankle a week ago,
it was a real factor, and I've got to believe
that even though he's saying it's okay that it's still bothering him a lot.
That was my first Super Bowl, so as a professional,
I don't know what it feels like to come in first.
You know? So, for me to come this close, only to come in second...
Hell, no!
And Tom Brady looks at me and gives me that... that... you know...
Hey, any quarterback wide receiver know.
Y'all know what.
Yeah, that... that look. That means, "Hey, I'm coming to you."
Hike!
[Buck] Brady, to Moss, third catch, makes a move, has a first down.
[cheering]
[Buck] Play action, Brady lobs it for Moss.
[Troy Aikman] Well, now you're finally starting to see New England
get into some kind of rhythm, and this is not uncharted territory for them.
[Buck] Brady... throws. Moss!
Touchdown!
[crowd cheers]
[Buck] A methodical drive put together by the game's best.
Patriots lead by 4 with 2 minutes, 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
They don't score, we win.
Let's take control over the game up front. Shut them down.
[Bruschi] Defensively, we knew what we had to do.
The perfect mark, 19 and 0.
One more stop and it was ours.
[fan] Come on, defense! Come on, defense!
[Buck] Pressure from Thomas off the edge.
Gonna be hit!
Gonna be sacked!
- [Aikman] No! - [Buck] No, he got out of it!
How in the world did he do that?
[Aikman] Eli Manning... I don't know how he got out of there.
I thought he was on the ground.
[Buck] Airs it out down the field.
It is caught by Tyree.
[Aikman] Oh, my gosh!
My first thought was, "Eli just got out of a sack," which never happens.
Uh, my second thought was, "Did he catch it? He didn't catch it."
I didn't think he caught it.
Looking at the replay, David pins it against the helmet,
then clutches it and goes down.
I... [stammers] I just... My mouth dropped.
[Brady] I was like, "Fuck, man. How the fuck did you do that?"
That play, I was looking at it the other day.
If that ball bounces up, we have five guys there to intercept the ball.
It's a million to one.
[Bruschi] I'm looking at the Giants after that play.
And I thought, "Damn, I've been on that other sideline before."
And I've beaten Goliath before, in the Saint Louis Rams.
Where nobody thinks you got a shot,
you double-digit underdog in the Super Bowl.
And I'm like, "Oh, shit, I know what they feel."
[sighs]
[Buck] Thirty-nine seconds left.
Manning lobs it. Burress alone! Touchdown, New York!
[crowd cheers]
[Buck] Seventeen-14, Giants.
With ten seconds left.
The Patriots would have to get it to the 34-yard line for a field goal.
At stake is the perfect season.
[Strahan] At that point I'm thinking, "Okay, this thing is in hand."
But anytime the Patriots have the ball,
no matter how much time is left,
when Tom Brady's your quarterback, you always worry.
[Moss] The last play... all we needed was a try for a field goal.
So, Tom told me, "Hey, Randy, we canning that.
Run the play.
When I look at you, reverse field."
[Buck] Brady rolls.
Heaves.
[Moss] I ran.
The ball comes...
[Buck] Moss down field...
broken up!
[Moss] And out of all the plays
that I've made my whole life, that still haunts me.
My fingertips touched it.
I nipped it.
[Buck] They run out the clock.
The Giants have won the Super Bowl.
[cheering]
[Stallworth] You know, seeing that ball hit that ground
when you had seen Brady and Moss make connection after connection,
I was just like...
"Did... did that just happen?
Did we... did we lose?"
[cheering]
[Stallworth] I just think everybody's heart just dropped to the floor.
And it's just like a total...
Just your soul leaving your body.
Yeah.
Sorry. [laughs]
Ah, that sucked.
[crowd roaring faintly]
[Belichick] Uh, the Giants were better than us that day.
They, uh, outcoached us, outplayed us, and deserved to win.
[Jonathan Kraft] Following the loss to the Giants,
that locker room was, by a factor of ten,
the most emotional...
Let me... Sorry, let me just start over,
because, I mean, I'm watching guys throw up and cry on the floor.
You know, I've never seen that. I've never ever seen that.
But I want to figure out how to... describe it.
[Brady] We were crushed.
I was crushed, my teammates were crushed. Coaches were crushed.
That was our history-making game.
That would have been everything.
I mean, I remember getting to the bus in Arizona,
and it was... there was not a sound.
We were... It was pitch dark.
We were as devastated as you could be.
There was no sleep.
There was no sleep for... for a long time.
[Kraft] I know Tommy wanted this game for so many reasons,
and he's harder on himself
than anyone else could ever be, and feels things so deeply.
So, when he would do something where he felt he failed,
it would make him feel even worse.
[Holley] That 2007 season,
people were just waiting for the Patriots to slip up and lose.
Lose, so we can make fun of you.
Lose, so we can get a response, because so far,
we don't have anything to hold over you.
Okay, we can say, "Yeah, you cheated,"
but you keep winning.
But now they had their answer.
Finally, they had to wait until the last game of the season,
but they had their comeback.
And everybody celebrated when they didn't win.
[Strahan] It felt like finally... finally, the good guys won.
The devil got kicked in the butt.
The rest of the country could celebrate.
I think that gave hope for the future.
But... the devil was not done.
[announcer] And now, ladies and gentlemen,
here are the New England Patriots!
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