NFL coaching staffs sometimes have used extreme means to protect - and get - secrets.
When Saban's former boss, Jerry Glanville, told him to pass out those notebooks filled with strategy and terminology, Saban obliged as any good assistant coach would -- even if it didn't make much sense to him at the time.
"The first page of the notebook was from the 1973 Atlanta Falcons," Saban recalled. "It was a 15-year-old notebook."
Just another extreme -- and extremely bizarre -- example of the often unbelievable measures taken by some coaches to avoid falling victim of espionage in the NFL. Maybe Glanville was being paranoid back then. Or maybe he was just being smart. ...
Did the Dolphins commit an act of football treason last week when they listened to television broadcasts of past Patriots games so they could learn quarterback Tom Brady's calls at the line of scrimmage?
If only you knew.
"Just because you don't know something goes on," Saban said, "doesn't mean it doesn't go on." (more)
