Go Pats.
Posted on 01/22/2008 8:40:18 PM PST by BigJohn44
Before youn criticize someone else - - go fix your “About” page.
As a casual fan of NFL football, it's been fun watching the local team win for a change (after decades of the team being a perennial laughingstock) but it's only a game. I have no control over the results of the games and whether they continue to win or not has no bearing on my overall happiness and contentment with life.
Furthermore, the players themselves aren't a reflection on me. They are all here on contract, with no real connection to my area, and next season, one group will leave and another group will come in. If the Washington Redskins or the Seattle Seahawks were just as dominating a team, they'd be just as much fun to watch from my living room on Sunday afternoons.
For me, NFL football is a pleasant diversion, not the focus of my life as it appears to be to certain others. Cheating? It means absolutely nothing to me. In all facets of life, people will always seek to gain an edge on their competition. If I found some secret way to make my lawn greener than my neighbors, I'd take advantage of it, and if neighbors asked me how I made my lawn so green, I'd shrug and say "I don't really know, just luck, I guess".
I don’t know where you’re getting the “everyone” is rooting for the Pats but the only people I know rooting for the Pats have lived much of their lives in New England. Everyone else is either rooting for the “underdog” and against the Pats (pleading for someone to know them off) or else is indifferent to the NFL.
That’s my (limited) experience from out here in snowy Utah. fwiw (not much) I was born in and lived 18 years of my life in the Boston area, have rooted for Boston teams since the mid-60s, and although I often think I’d like to forget about their d####d sports teams (what an irrational attachment!), there is something about that youthful brainwashing as a sports fan that is very hard to shake!! So, all these years later, thousands of miles removed, I still take much enjoyment in the success of the Red Sox, Patriots, and now Celtics again, and much agony in their many bad years....... the Bruins I’ve never been able to care much about, even in their glory years long ago, I just don’t care about ice hockey.........
Did you read the article?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/09/13/cheating/index.html?bcnn=yes
Go Pats.
Well, I appreciate your opinion, but facts are our friends. If there was proof I would be condemning the Pats like the NooYawkers are.
Nobody cares!
LOL! Your "care" is showing.
There’s nothing to argue. Coaches and owners don’t have an appeal process for fines like the players, they get fined they pay it that’s it, coaches that don’t pay are suspended until they do, and owners can lose their franchise rights. Now really you’re the owner of one of the highest value teams in the league, one of the highest value teams in professional sports, are you going to risk losing the franchise over a half million dollar fine? Of course not, you pay the fine and you write off one week’s worth of memorabilia sales.
Their competition was lackluster?! They faced 6 playoff teams in the regular season, including the team that got the #1 spot in the NFC and the eventual NFC champion. If that’s lackluster I’d hate to see what you think is stiff competition.
I think a lot of non-New Englanders are rooting for the Pats. I’ve never stepped foot anywhere in NE, I’m a Steelers fan, but I was 3 the last time a team ran the NFL table and I want to see history.
Do not feed the troll——
Baltimoron here checking in with one man's answer to your question - I want the Pats to win so the 72 Dolphins have to shut the hell up about being the team with the only perfect season.
Baltimore Colts fans have long memories.
LOL...you guys are called “Baltimorons”? That ain’t fair.
Maybe it is me...I just have the hardest time accepting “Indianapolis Colts” and “Baltimore Ravens”.
When I think “Colts”, the first thing in my head is “Baltimore”.
Michael Curtis, the beastly linebacker and Johnny Unitas, the consummate quarterback...
Okay! You guys win with cheerleaders...the Pats ones are pretty nice, especially in those Santa miniskirt things they wore around the holidays, but...Dallas attracts the best, no contest there!
Say what you want about the Pats, but let's keep Barbie collections out of this....
Curtis, even by the standards of the day, was undersized for a linebacker, but he could pack a mean punch. Just ask the wise guy who thought it would be fun to run out onto the field :-)
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