Group fined $1.1M for filming sidelines…

The New England Patriots were fined $1.1 million and docked a 2021 third-spherical draft establish terminate by the NFL following an investigation into the filming of the Bengals’ sideline all around the 2019 season, NFL Community’s Mike Garafolo reported Sunday.

The Patriots’ team manufacturing crew is also barred from filming video games this upcoming season, Garafolo added.

The league has been investigating New England since it was published the Patriots had a videographer film the Bengals‘ sideline from the Cleveland press box all over a sport unhurried in the 2019 season.

At the time, the Patriots confirmed that the organization’s video crew, honest of the football operation, did film the discipline whereas in the clicking box on the Bengals-Browns sport. The Patriots said they reached out to the Browns for a credential for a videographer to shoot a in the support of-the-scenes part on an intention scout as fragment of their “Discontinue Your Job” video series.