'There's Always Been Talk' That Patriots Cheated In Super Bowl, Eagles Owner Says
FOXBORO (CBS) – The owner of the Philadelphia Eagles says questions still remains about his team's loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIX
Jeffrey Lurie told the Philadelphia Inquirer that while he focuses on his team's missed opportunities during a 24-21 loss in 2005 to the Patriots, he did not deny that the Eagles suspect nefarious behavior.
"Factually, I personally don't have enough information to make that determination," Lurie told the newspaper.
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He later added that "there's always been talk about (cheating accusations) from the time the game finished and continued on until now. But I've moved way on since then."
The Eagles' beliefs that the Patriots cheated were brought back up last week after ESPN's investigative piece on Spygate cited an unnamed source from the team saying Philadelphia thought New England knew their plays.
"To this day, some believe that we were robbed by the Patriots not playing by the rules … and knowing our game plan," a former Eagles football operations staffer told ESPN in the article.
The Eagles aren't the only team that lost to the Patriots who believes they were cheated.
In the ESPN article an unnamed member of the Carolina Panthers organization said it felt like the Patriots were "in our huddle" during Super Bowl XXXVII.
And just this week the Pittsburgh Steelers insinuated that New England was behind the headset malfunctions that took place in the season opener, though the NFL subsequently cleared the Patriots of any wrongdoing.
As for the Eagles, Lurie said the possibility that the Patriots cheated his team out of a Super Bowl ring is not something he thinks about every day.
"There's nothing we can do about that," Lurie told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
