Should Gooddell look into "Sabotage-gate"?

For those who may not know or did not hear, Tim Brown's claim that the Bill Callahan sabotaged the Raiders in their loss in the Super Bowl to the Buccaneers is now being backed up by Jerry Rice. Should commissioner Roger Goodell investigate these claims of sabotage?

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No way to prove it. Was changing the game plan the Friday before the SB a stupid thing to do? Yes. Was it done to intentionally lose the game to piss off Al Davis? That's something we can't prove.

Not only should there not be an investigation, I don't think you really could investigate this with any degree of accuracy.

The answer to this is not as clear cut as you may think.

If I am an advertiser shelling out $3,000,000 for a 30-second ad airing during the Super Bowl I definitely want Gooddell to investigate these claims to ensure the integrity of what is supposed to be the biggest game of the league's season.

However, to hear Jerry Rice's side of the story in backing up Tim Brown he claims that Callahan did not like him. This makes him sound like a player with an axe to grind and thus not make this claim of sabotage worth investigating.

Yes, this should be investigated.  People need to let go of other old news though, like Ray Lewis' alleged involvement in a double murder by stabbings. 

It's too long ago to find anything useful. No reason to waste time with it.

Let's say he does and finds Callahan guilty of throwing the game. What then? Whom do you punish? You can't punish the Raiders because they were the victims. You can't punish the Bucs - it's not their fault. The only one you could punish would be Callahan and kick him out of the league? Suspend him for a year? He's currently the OL/OC of the Dallas Cowboys.

And then there's the fall out.

People will question the outcome of SB's from here on out. Were they rigged?

No way to prove Callahan did anything wrong and it's a can of worms best left unopened.

No way to prove it.

I don't want to jump to that conclusion yet because just when you think there is no way to prove it TMZ or Deadspin will dig up ome incriminating e-mails from Callahan to back up Brown's claims.

.....*some* incriminating e-mails.....

This is really the first I've read about this story.
Why would Callahan throw a Super Bowl game to attempt to agitate Al Davis?  What did I miss here that pissing off your owner by getting crushed in the Super Bowl is better than winning the Super Bowl?

Overall, I don't want this investigated for the similar reason I didn't want steroids in baseball investigated.  No good can come of this.

This is really the first I've read about this story.

Me too, but according to Tim Brown he has been making this claim for years which is why I am having a hard time accepting this claim.

Why investigate something that happened 9 years ago?  What do they hope to accomplish out of it?

Callahan's not the one who threw 5 INTs.

Callahan's not the one who threw 5 INTs. 


But it was part of the playbook.

Why investigate something that happened 9 years ago?  What do they hope to accomplish out of it?

The only reason that I can see an investigation possibly being done is to ease the concerns of advertisers who are shelling out millions of dollars to have the their product or service advertised during the Super Bowl.

Last year the Super Bowl had over 111,000,000 viewers. If that number drops to under 95,000,000 for this year's Super Bowl there will be an investigation regardless of the absurdity of the allegations.

Callahan's not the one who threw 5 INTs.

Sure wasn't


He also wasn't the pro bowl center that went on a drinking binge the day before the game


Anyone remember what John Lynch said on the side line? Something like "We ran all these plays in practice"


That SB was karma for Al IMO. Gruden became bigger than Al in Oakland. Nobody was talking about Al bringing the Raiders back to respectability, so Al traded him. Al then promoted a guy that decided to keep just about every aspect of Gruden's O intact


Some Raider fans will harp on "rumors" being floated around that Gruden was going to jet for Notre Dame in an effort to get a new contract. SFW. Gruden deserved a new deal paying him some decent money. Al never valued coaches because a good coach steals the micro-managing owner's thunder. Al got exactly what he deserved on that deal

why would he (Callahan) blow his one shot at getting a ring?  After all the overall goal of an NFL coach and player is to get the ring.. What would be the point of his "giving" the Super Bowl to His "friend?"  

This will just be a he said, she said back and forth and nothing will be resolved so no...don't look into it. 

Former players rich Gannon and romanoski have disputed Browns claim. Sounds like Brown is just bitter.

Sounds like Brown is just bitter.

I agree


I love Tim Brown, but he did not show up for that game


In the biggest game of his career he logged 1 catch


1 catch

Former players rich Gannon and romanoski have disputed Browns claim. Sounds like Brown is just bitter.

Weei was talking about this last night...  They thought he was bitter too since he didn't get catches in the Super Bowl when he did the game before.  When Romanoski is the "voice of reason" you know something is up

Callahan's not the one who threw 5 INTs. 


But it was part of the playbook. 

Really didn't know a coach designed a INT play in the playbook, maybe they should do away with them it doesn't seem to be a play that helps your team win.