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The Boston Herald today apologized to the Patriots ownership, players, employees and fans for the crap they printed the day before the Super Bowl.

"On Feb. 2, 2008, the Boston Herald reported that a member of the New England Patriots video staff taped the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, 2008, report on sources that it believed to be credible, we now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed.

Prior to the publication of its Feb. 2, 2008, article, the Boston Herald neither possessed nor viewed a tape of the Rams’ walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI, nor did we speak to anyone who had. We should not have published the allegation in the absence of firmer verification.

The Boston Herald regrets the damage done to the team by publication of the allegation, and sincerely apologizes to its readers and to the New England Patriots owners, players, employees and fans for our error."

The article appears in Wednesdays print edition as well as on the Herald site. The comments were already piling up early this morning. Here is a sampling of what some fans had to say.

maverick4
I am never reading the Herald for the rest of my life, and I hope the writer of that article, who everyone knows by now, is severely punished for this. To publish a false report, of this magnitude, the day before the Superbowl, is unforgivable.

dino246
responsible journalism? Give it a try sometimes!

Rogie
You need to man up Tomase must be at least suspend if not terminated as does the editor who approved and ran the story. How did you go from having "a source" to having "sources" and don't forget your response to the Globe when they had someone who made up a story. Lets see if you practice what you preach.

Integrity
If John Tomase is fired, I'll think about reading this publication again. Anything short of that is just empty words. If the Herald was used as some kind of manipulated platform as the timing of the article suggests, then that also needs to come to light. Until then this is just a half-assed apology for a maliciously unsubstantiated allegation the Herald made at a critical time for the New England Patriots.

caylee
You guys are truely ridiculous...I took 1 Jouralism class in high school, and hardly paid attention and even I know that you're suppose to check your sources out. Over and over again. Okay, so you guys didn't see the tape, but you didn't even talk to someone who actually saw "the tape"???? Haha...thats horrible. How do u report something based on a rumor? Nothing more then a Tabloid.

bushy
You "own up"? LMAO. How big of you. There is only one way you people can "own up" and that's that every editor who allowed the story to run is fired immediately. That Tomase should be fired as well goes without saying. If heads don't start rolling at the Herald, and I mean immediately, everyone there better start looking job starting 7am this morning.