They get 3 asterisks from me.
Spygate (they were cheating for years and got caught in 07, you could reasonably put an asterisk on all of them prior but I wont)
Deflategate (the cover up was obvious, doesn't matter how much it helped or if it helped. Cheating is cheating and once you're caught, you get an asterisk.)
Beastmodegate (they lose if the [BLEEP] Seahawks just run the ball from the half yard line) This isn't for cheating... it's an asterisk just to say, the better team lost through no fault of the Pats.


But really..... 6 SBs in 9 appearances.... with cheating or not... they've still been a really good team most years that have been coached really well for almost 20 years.
And if they're taping Bengals to get an edge over that bad team, I just feel bad for them at this point... they're desperate to send Tom Turrific off into the sunset with another SB win and it just ain't happenin'.

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