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You never know what will eternally taint a legacy and what wont. Pete rose isnt the only pro athlete to bet on sports or even his own sport... If you had told people in the hieght of the steroid homerun chases that all of those guys would get nailed for steroids no one would have thought that any of them would get blackballed by the hof.... Sports legacies can get tarnished... Sometimes even ti the point of no return
Yes, but the narrative the NFL is telling is that the couple of incidents that the Patriots were proven to have committed were not enough to remove those games and stats.
The Patriots under Belichick and Brady went to 6 Super Bowls, winning 4 of them. 15+ years of winning seasons, with how many division championships. The cheating scandals will be one-off anecdotes -- Bob Kraft will be seen as the great owner who, along with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, built the Patriots franchise into a dynasty.
I can't stand it, but that's how I see it.