Inside sources with the New England Patriots have let it slip that the Patriots are turning lemons into lemonade concerning their recent violation of NFL rules. While there is apparently no truth to the rumors that head coach Bill Belichick is changing his name to Beliflick, the news of new team sponsors has leaked out with the image found below.

- Bill Belichick’s title will be changed from “Head Coach” to “Director”
- Team introductions will now be referred to as “the opening credits”.
- The “helmet cam” will be replaced by the “opposing coach’s clipboard cam”.
- New Assistant Coach: Steven Spielberg.
- Famed TV psychic Sylvia Brown will come in on Saturday Night’s to predict the opposition’s game plan for the next day.
- Super Bowl rings will be replaced with Super Hero Decoder Rings.
- Bill Belichick was known to never want to speak to Jets coach Eric Mangini again, he has since changed this to “never ever again”.

Neither head coach had much to say regarding either the videotaping incident or the punishment handed down, although when asked if he ever thought that his coaching staff had been videotaped during a game, Belichick replied “If I thought I was ending up on film, do you think I’d dress like this?”

In 1975, just three seasons removed from their perfect season, the Miami Dolphins lost three star players to the rival World Football League.

The World Football League (WFL) started in 1974 and had experienced serious financial difficulties. Before the start of their second season, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL signed Dolphins players Larry Csonka, Paul Warfield, and Jim Kiick away from Miami to play for Memphis. The Memphis franchise was one of just a couple WFL teams that had semi-smooth operations, eventually petitioning to join the NFL after the WFL folded but they were denied.

The effect this mass evacuation of players had on the Dolphins was significant and the AFC would’ve been significantly different had these players not gone.

It would be as if Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, and Emmitt Smith had left the Cowboys in the early 1990’s. Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, and Edgerin James leaving the Colts in the early 2000’s, would’ve had a similar effect on their team.

Alternative professional leagues have had a wide variety of effects on the National Football League, but few have had such a dramatic effect on one specific team.