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PATS* FANS CHEAT THEIR HEARTS OUT
The New York Post ^ | 1/22/08 | JENNIFER FERMINO et al

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.

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. . . 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 ...


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To: MarineBrat
This is one Superbowl(*) that I have no interest in watching.

Nobody cares!
61 posted on 01/23/2008 2:19:30 AM PST by Beckwith (Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: snowstorm12

Before youn criticize someone else - - go fix your “About” page.


62 posted on 01/23/2008 2:24:34 AM PST by Beckwith (Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: BigJohn44
As a New England resident, it sure is amusing (and a little sad at the same time) to see people so consumed with envy and hatred over a football club.

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".

63 posted on 01/23/2008 2:34:02 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 14 days away from outliving Nicolette Larson)
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To: BigJohn44
The NY Post is a "national publication" in just about the same sense as the Boston Herald is a "national publication" -- so if a writer in the Boston Herald says that "BigJohn44's sticks his head so far up his a## that he can swallow food twice".... I guess we can take that one to the bank as having been asserted by one minor writer in a "national publication"???

You are ridiculous.
64 posted on 01/23/2008 2:49:08 AM PST by Enchante (Patriots, 18-0 baby!!!!!!!!! [Jon Cary wants to know if Manny Ortiz helped the Pats win])
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To: dr_lew

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.........


65 posted on 01/23/2008 3:01:11 AM PST by Enchante (Patriots, 18-0 baby!!!!!!!!! [Jon Cary wants to know if Manny Ortiz helped the Pats win])
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To: BigJohn44
Every play. Every game. Every win since Belacheat took over as coach is tainted and suspect. The Pats will wear a asterisk around their necks for the rest of time and wont be free of suspicion till the coaching staff and ownership is changed.
66 posted on 01/23/2008 3:26:02 AM PST by BigCinBigD (")
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To: SoldierDad

Did you read the article?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/09/13/cheating/index.html?bcnn=yes


67 posted on 01/23/2008 4:09:48 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: BigJohn44

Go Pats.

68 posted on 01/23/2008 5:57:42 AM PST by gate2wire (Even when you know, you never know.)
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To: cherry

Well, I appreciate your opinion, but facts are our friends. If there was proof I would be condemning the Pats like the NooYawkers are.


69 posted on 01/23/2008 5:57:53 AM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: gate2wire


Our girls are better, (even though they're staying home this year)

GO NEW YORK GIANTS!!! And this is coming from a Cowboys fan. Gotta stick with the NFC East.
70 posted on 01/23/2008 6:26:12 AM PST by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: Beckwith
This is one Superbowl(*) that I have no interest in watching.

Nobody cares!

LOL! Your "care" is showing.

71 posted on 01/23/2008 7:50:32 AM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: cherry

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.


72 posted on 01/23/2008 8:02:24 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: snowstorm12

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.


73 posted on 01/23/2008 8:05:37 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: Enchante

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.


74 posted on 01/23/2008 8:09:02 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: GOP_Raider; All
This clown is a pathetic fool who posts the same basic thread over and over. It would be best to just ignore “him” and eventually it will stop,maybe the Barbie doll collection will once again be the center of “ his” attention.
This is at least the 6th thread in about 10 days or so.
The coward will not even answer any comments to “him”.
I suspect its just some goofy kid trying to gt a rise out of others-

Do not feed the troll——

75 posted on 01/23/2008 8:15:10 AM PST by scott says
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To: rlmorel
perhaps I am mistaken, but aren’t most people rooting against the Patriots?

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.

76 posted on 01/23/2008 9:39:43 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

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...


77 posted on 01/23/2008 9:55:56 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: NCC-1701

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!


78 posted on 01/23/2008 9:58:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: scott says
maybe the Barbie doll collection will once again be the center of “ his” attention.

Say what you want about the Pats, but let's keep Barbie collections out of this....

79 posted on 01/23/2008 10:59:43 AM PST by ninonitti
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To: rlmorel

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 :-)


80 posted on 01/23/2008 11:36:34 AM PST by dmz
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