Posted on 01/22/2008 8:40:18 PM PST by BigJohn44
For weeks, Patriots fans have been charting the team's "path to perfection," conveniently leaving out the role that cheating played in their success.
. . . The Post has attached an asterisk to the Patriots so-called perfect record, a shameless distinction that doesn't seem to bother anyone in Boston.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Finally someone saying what I am thinking..
This is, what, your upteenth post on this topic? Get a life. It’s way past your bedtime anyway, isn’t it?
What a crock of sh*t, written by someone who obviously is clueless about the NFL.
Way to give the Patriots bulletin board material.
Why are Noo Yawkahs so dumb?
A rumor in your own mind should not stay there this long...........nor should you let it ruin your life so much.
Please, please, please stop referring to everything as a surge!!!
Besides, the Patriots aren't surging at all. If they had lost ten games and then started winning, maybe that would constitute a surge -- but then maybe a so-called writer could use at least a little bit of creativity and try one of the 400-plus synonyms you can find on the Internet in five seconds.
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So a few days ago your big scoop was that a liberal NY paper (Daily News) accused the Patriots of using a camera (in the first quarter of the first season where the rule they violated)that had video AND audio capabilities (you played it as if there were two separate “CIA” teams involved). Now, sure as the sun will rise, you take one sentence out of a NY paper and play it like some revelation. You are pathetic.
PS: The Patriots are gonna win. Ha, ha.
I’ll qualify my response with the following statements first: I am a Dolphins fan, so New England is far from my favorite team. Belichik is a humorless fellow, and not very likable. I could not care less who the hell wins the Super Bowl if it ain’t my Fish.
“Possibly the strongest indictment to date by a national publication” The New York Post affords an objective treatment of the subject?!?!??!!
All teams scam each other’s signs. ALL OF THEM!!!!! Ever notice that ALL coaches cover their mouths with clipboards when providing plays? It’s because the other teams are scamming their plays!
That being said, I think that New England should have paid a steeper price than 1 first round draft pick. However, get real. New England has been the best team, all year! If it was any team but a New York team playing them I would be hoping for New England’s defeat, but listening to a bunch of New Yawkers gloat is too painful to contemplate.
I read an interesting analogy the other day.
Think of this Patriot’s season as a Ferrari. Sleek, beautiful, perfect, a joy to watch perform. How does hte cheating scandal fit in? A seven inch scratch on the side, and no matter how much you paint it, polish it, whatever, you can still see the scratch. Doesn’t take away from its greatness or performance but is an unsightly (and unecessary) flaw. No matter their likely perfect record and extraordinary performance, the cheating scandal will be a part of the legacy.
I have to admit (not being a fan or enemy of NE, just enjoy watching them play) that I get a huge kick out of NE fans —the team got caught cheating yet somehow they convinced themselves that everybody else is the bad guy. Kinda like Clinton.
Want to see something really funny? Do a search by poster BigJohn44 to look at his recent postings...you might notice a pattern...:)
I thought nothing could beat the liberal moonbats and their Bush Derangement Syndrome, but I think he has them topped with his Patriots Derangement Syndrome.
You are one pathetic Cheesehead.
Gosh, I hope not ...
Years ago I read an article about the baseball Tokyo Giants, and how they always won, and everybody rooted for them. "How pathetic!" one thought. Yet this is exactly the sentiment that's in play with the Pats.
I don’t know...perhaps I am mistaken, but aren’t most people rooting against the Patriots?
He’s a Cheesehead?
I am surprised. My experience with those folks (Cheeseheads) is that they understand football, and are pretty decent fans.
While I like the analogy in regards to Patriots detractors, there was no elongated denial campaign.
They admitted the infraction, took the hit financially and draft-choice wise, and have gone on to win more games undefeated in a season than any team in NFL history while simultaneously dealing with the pressure of today's instant, anything-big-or-small-is-news environment.
What else could they have done? Said that no matter what happens this season, "...any success we achieve is illegitimate."?
Boston?
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