Former Pittsburgh Steelers’ linebacker Joey Porter thinks there should be an asterisk placed on the Patriots’ Super Bowl seasons.

“They [the Patriots] cheated, there should be an asterisk. They cheated and they got caught,” the All-Pro linebacker, who spent eight seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers before joining Miami in free agency last season, said in an interview on “NFL Live.”

“Why, if you have nothing to hide, would you destroy [the evidence]? That’s how I’ve looked at it from the beginning. Why destroy something that doesn’t have to be destroyed? Let everyone know what was on the tapes. Why would you destroy them so fast?”

“They went from zero to 60 overnight and [Belichick] went from a good coach to a great great coach and he got caught cheating,” Porter said on “NFL Live.”

I love when players and coaches break out the asterisk comments. There will never be any asterisks in sports record books. The asterisks come into play by us fans getting upset and never forgetting how the Patriots cheated or how Barry Bonds used steroids to break the all-time home run record. Fans talking about those situations and choosing not to acknowledge that they happened is the asterisks.