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Ol Skool Spygate: 1999 Article on Using Cameras to View Your Own Players
Posted February 17th ago via AOL Fanhouse - NFL Gossip
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Here is a very interesting twist of a possible root of Spygate. In an article from 1999 (just before the Bill Belichick spying controversy has said to have started), news broke that teams used cameras to keep an eye on their own players. There have been reports (reports that these teams deny) that teams are using cameras to look into the locker room and other places that players go. While it is unclear exactly how many teams use hidden cameras in their complexes, interviews with players, agents and union leaders suggested that several clubs use them and that the number of teams that do is increasing. Gene Upshaw, executive director of the players association, said he believed that at least 25 percent of National Football League teams use cameras in the locker room.

Those who were interviewed said they believed the reasons for using the hidden cameras varied from a desire to provide better security for the players, to watching and learning as much about them as possible.

While most players like the safety aspect of it, there is a feeling that teams may be recording union meetings and such. Upshaw threw this out there, too:

''When I'm in Denver, in a meeting with the players at the Broncos' facility, you see certain things in the room and know they're not lights. I know management is listening. When I'm in Cincinnati, I know Owner Mike Brown is listening. I don't want to say how I know, but I know. But when it comes to this ...

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