Bill Belichick has placed Patriots fans on the defensive for the rest
of their lives... There can no longer be any doubt that he engaged in
a practice he knew was against the rules."
-- Bob Ryan, Sports Columnist, the Boston Globe

Bob Ryan is the pre-eminent sports columnist in Boston, and is also
recognized nationally. Here's are some excerpts from his most recent
column, titled "With Belichick, the cover up is most revealing":

Bill Belichick has placed Patriots fans on the defensive for the rest
of their lives. There can no longer be any doubt that he engaged in a
practice he knew was against the rules.

[Belichick] has been exposed as being monumentally disingenuous at
best and utterly duplicitous at worst.
The sports community now associates the Patriots with cheating. The
three Super Bowl championships are, and forever will be, under
suspicion. The thought will never go away.

The Patriots have been irrevocably stained. They will be, in the eyes
of many, the reverse Black Sox. They will be the team that broke the
rules. Their three Super Bowls will be regarded as ill-gotten gain.

And Bill Belichick still hasn't fessed up. Bob Kraft should be livid.
He has to live with the reality that he presides over the most
despised and reviled franchise in all of contemporary American sport,
and all because the coach he trusted has betrayed him.