Kennedy: Time to move on

NFL. While Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter continues to rage against the NFL for their handling of Spygate, Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy called for everyone on Capitol Hill to move past Spygate.

“With the war in Iraq raging on, gasoline prices closing in on $4 a gallon, and Americans losing their homes at record rates to foreclosure, the United States Senate should be focusing on the real problems that Americans are struggling with,” Kennedy said through a spokesman in response to a question posed by a Boston Globe reporter Thursday.

“I’m looking forward to another great Patriots season where they can let their play on the field speak for itself.”

Meanwhile, former Patriots employee Matt Walsh — who spoke with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell earlier in the week about the teams’ videotaping — has taped an interview with HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” set to air Friday where he says team officials coached him in how to evade NFL security.

“We went to great lengths to keep from being caught,” he said.

He added coach Bill Belichick’s “misinterpretation” doesn’t wash with him.

“To me, that really didn’t sound like taking responsibility for what we had done,” Walsh said, “especially considering the great lengths that we had gone through to hide what we were doing.”