The dealings with the patriots are over and done with, there is a possibility that specter will try to go after Goodell but I predict minimal results with that.  It may seem huge now, but when you think about bad publicity in the MLB I'd bet more people recall Pete Rose before they call up the blacksock scandal, this will last a while, but it'll fade.  Short final comment involving the punishment, the patriots could have been fined more, but the draft pick was a good punishment (not the NFL's fault the pats had 2 first rounders) and the fines to belichick were enough.  I already gave a few examples last night about fines in the NFL and the biggest one prior to spygate was 250,000 for Ray Lewis when he lied to police about the whole stabbing incident, so im pretty happy with the fine to bill.  It's all right ot be upset about it because we're all biased about this (Goodell included) and when emotions get this high about something theres no way everyone will walk away happy.

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Sorry but this is mere conjecture on your part.  This is what I find so funny about Goodell and ESPN and John Clayton all saying 'SpyGate is Done'.  Who deemed Goodell the authority to end it?  No one.  What happens if tomorrow someone does step forward with a Super Bowl walkthrough tape?  That door opens right back up.  What happens if a former NE employee steps up and says 'I wired & tampered with opposing team's headsets at Foxboro for 6 years'?  What happens if ....  Get my drift?  This isn't closed until lots of water passes under the bridge.  Mark my words, more will come of this.  Goodell will have his hand FORCED to look further into this either by a) Specter, b) a nosy reporter who comes up with more, c) a former disgrunteled employee, or d) all of the above.  The sad part to it all is that Goodell won't look any further.  This is the sad part about dealing with a private franchise.  They can operate unethically without fear of much repercussion.  Thank goodness for anti-trust.

I think this is the part of the investigation that annoys many fans.  Here is a quote from the ESPN article about how Walsh knew that what he was doing was wrong.

The meeting was agreed to only after Walsh's request of protection from litigation was met by the league.

'We set that position out very early,' Michael Levy, Walsh's attorney, said Thursday on 'Mike & Mike In the Morning' on ESPN Radio, 'because [early in the process] the NFL and the Patriots were somewhat hostile' toward Walsh.

It seems odd to me as a fan that they BOTH had the same position.  They BOTH didn't want Walsh to speak.  They wanted what he knew kept under the carpet.  If Spector had not forced this to happen, I bet we never would have seen the tapes we saw yesterday.  The NFL says and now the Boston newspaper supports that there was no videotape of the walkthrough....All we know is that Walsh didn't do it and that he didn't throw whoever could have under the bus.  I just don't trust anything they say.  I still say the following....We still don't know what else is in the building that they DIDN'T pass along to the commissioner.