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Questioning the "Just Desserts" of the Patriots Losing

By Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, and Howard Wasserman

Over on The Situationist, Jon Hanson and I wrote a short piece that examines the many commentators who believe that the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl was somehow a "just" outcome, be it because the team broke rules earlier this season when video tapping the Jets, because the team seemed to relish running up the score on the some of the NFL's worst teams, or, most recently, because Bill Belichick walked off the field early in the Super Bowl, a topic Howard examined yesterday.

We wonder whether justice has indeed been served, or whether we simply want to believe that it has. We hope you check out our work.

Full post as published by Sports Law Blog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).