Posted on 02/05/2017 9:38:51 AM PST by mtrott
@ColinCowherd The @realDonaldTrump year in sports. Just as you counted them out (Cavaliers, Cubs & now Patriots)....
I don’t have a problem if someone decides not to watch it. That is their business, and I respect that.
What I have a problem with and do not respect is people who get spittle lipped because someone wants to watch a football game, but have no problem with buying a Ford, even with their full blown monetary support of extreme leftist causes specifically Black Lives Matter.
There were a handful of men, maybe five or ten, out of 1500 who disrespected the National Anthem. And their anti-American antics were not supported by the league. But when Ford gives tens of millions of dollars that end up in the hands of Black Lives Matters or Microsoft gives matching funds to the Gates Foundation that is given to Planned Parenthood, that is okay, because we wouldn’t want anyone to feel morally inferior because they drive a Ford or use Microsoft products.
What, you think someone can’t be a Pat’s fan and be a staunch conservative?
Belichick almost looked happy!
” Greatest catch ever?”
G*d damnedest catch I can ever recall seeing. It needs a name, I don’t know if the internet has given it one yet.
There’s only one explanation for this win. Russian hacking! ;-)
I kept the faith the entire game. It wasn’t easy, but I did.
In the 2015 Super Bowl when Seattle was on the Patriot’s 1 yard line with 26 seconds left, it looked grim. Very grim. I have watched a lot of football games in my life, so like a doctor who can look at an injured person and see the signs of death in them, I could look at the situation for the Patriots and sense that the noose had tightened around their necks.
When Malcolm Butler intercepted that ball, I was speechless, and simply couldn’t react. I didn’t jump up with my buddies. I just sat there dumbly staring at the television. It just couldn’t register with me.
When it did, it made me realize that no matter how hopeless an outcome can potentially be, it can still happen. There is always a chance.
So, when I watched this game last night, I refused to call the game, even when the Patriots team was down 28-3. Someone in the crowd I was with said it was going to be an embarrassing defeat.
I said “I don’t see it that way. I see this as a chance for a historic opportunity for the Patriots to cement their legacy as the greatest football team ever by coming back from the biggest point deficit ever to win the game.”
All in all, that is not a bad life lesson to know in your heart, that as hopeless as something may seem, there is always a chance. I hope that if I am in a situation where I or those I love are faced with a seemingly hopeless situation, that I can help get out of that situation by never giving up and calling it a lost cause.
I know it is only a football game, but...I think it did provide me with more than simple entertainment that night in 2015. Tonight was proof for me that it isn’t a fluke. There can always be hope, however remote.
That catch was sick. Nice to see one of those go in our favor this time.
The “In ma cleat reception?”
If you ate Brady’s carefully curated, 80% vegetable, diet, you’d be hungry too!
Possible, but it depends on how they, as a team, respond to this hollow pit in their stomachs. If they internalize it and blame each other, it could rip the team apart from the inside. The fact that they are young increases this potential for finger-pointing divisiveness.
Like the game itself, this will be a great test of both the team's commitment to "team," and the coach's ability to move them beyond this united. Great stuff.
I'm betting they disappear from NFL Deep Playoff radar for a couple years, just like Seattle did after the Patriots ripped their hearts out once they 'knew' they had it all but won.
In Brady we Trust!
They just keep losing, and losing, and losing . . .
“Here’s what I posted to FOX Sports Radio’s Colin Cowherd on Twitter:
@ColinCowherd The @realDonaldTrump year in sports. Just as you counted them out (Cavaliers, Cubs & now Patriots)....”
he forgot to mention the Clemson Tigers.
He was happy! Like Haley’s Comet, it’s only viable every 76 years.
I’m still shocked by it.
That’s “POST OF THE YEAR” prose right there.
“applause”
10000000000% the political impact of this game: The Donald Trump-supported NEW Patriots was a factor!!!
I’m pinging a couple folks that I chat with offline; they can attest that I am NOT a NEW “homer”. I’m not. I’m a fan of sports, period.
But when gross abuses of power (”Bountygate”, “Bullygate” “Deflategate”) occur (and I have written in the past how ALL of them were BS) then COMBINE the political aspect of POTUS Trump in the mix? Yes, I am INSANELY HAPPY that NEW won!!!!!
It’s a “FU” to the corrupt NFL office and a “FU” to the crying liberal asshats. A true “twofer”.
So grateful to be alive this morning - to wake up to this incredible lift for the whole country.
During the game I was quietly praying to see what was infinitely possible.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.