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Remember back in November, when former Dolphins head coach and Hall of Famer Don Shula said this:

The Spygate thing has diminished what they've accomplished. You would hate to have that attached to your accomplishments. They've got it ... Belichick was fined $500,000, the team was fined $250,00 and they lost a first-round draft choice. That tells you the seriousness or significance of what they found.

Shula later backed off those remarks, and now he's sorry he ever opened his mouth.

"I'm probably not the guy that should have said it ... I think a lot of people, when I said it, perceived it as helping yourself," Shula said. ...

"Somebody else probably should have done it instead of me, because people thought it was self-serving when I did it."

Yeah, somebody like, say, Mercury Morris. He seems impartial. I mean, when he's not making hard-to-follow points about the greatness of the '72 Dolphins, he's actually got some nice things to say about the '07 Patriots:

"It was one game. It happened. I don't think their season should be defined out of that mishap," Morris said. "They soon realized they're so good, they didn't have to have that small advantage they tried to get. In hindsight, I'm sure they wish they hadn't done that."

Of course, none of this matters if the Giants win the Super Bowl; everything can return to normal and a team full of old timers can get down to the business of chugging champagne.