Here's a mea culpa written by Boston Herald beat reporter John Tomase, who explains how and why he wrote the story on Feb. 2 that the Patriots had taped a Rams' walkthrough practice the day before the 2002 Super Bowl.
The story stoked the Spygate controversy for months, but the Patriots consistently denied a tape ever existed. Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh, who was at the walkthrough to set up video equipment for the game, told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that he never taped the practice and knew of no one else who had done so.
The Herald issued a front-page apology for the incorrect story on Wednesday.
Tomase offered his personal apology today.
Boston fans don't appear to be in a very forgiving mood about the situation.
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Yeah, but I bet his blog hit numbers are through the roof!