Rest easy, NFL. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has given up his dream of a Congressional inquiry into Spygate, the “scandal” that rocked the 2007 NFL season creating controversy around the New England Patriots’ 16-0 regular season.

Specter, who has to have better things to do than worry about what is going on on NFL sidelines during games, told the Philadelphia Daily News in a statement picked up by other media outlets that his judiciary committee “has too much to do” and he’s “gone as far as I can.”

Apparently the demands of fighting a war, fixing health care, the national deficit, an ongoing presidential election, crumbling national infrastructure, environmental concerns, $4 per gallon gas prices, and Congress’ 11 percent approval rating are more important than Spygate. Good that he finally came to that realization.

One problem – now he wants to look into whether or not NFL stadiums should be built with public money. Well, more power to him on that one, I suppose. But he’s a little too late to the party on that one – cities have been doing that for decades and there’s likely no end in site.

During both of his recent NFL tirades he’s reportedly brought up the league’s anti-trust exemption – and perhaps that should be looked at as well. But there are far, far more important things facing Specter and his senatorial colleagues right now to be worried about steroids in baseball and sideline cheating in the NFL.

The Patriots lost a draft pick and the team and its coach paid fines. There’s little more that can be done looking back and the league seems to be insistent on making a point of monitoring the issue going forward. It’s about time for Specter to back off – or to go away altogether.