Posted on 02/03/2019 6:45:22 AM PST by Drew68
Their star quarterback, coach, and owner all supported Trump. But that’s not the only thing that makes the Super Bowl LIII-bound Patriots the preferred team of white nationalists.
This past weekend, the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots held a rally for their sweatiest fans at Gillette Stadium. Brady gave a speech. It ended… unnervingly.
WE’RE STILL HERE! WE’RE STILL HERE! Obviously, Brady is referring to his aging, decrepit, cheating-ass squad’s progression to the big game. But, imagine you didn’t know anything about football, or who Tom Brady was, or anything like that. You would think that you were watching some square-jawed grifter throwing red meat to the hogs at an alt-right rally, screaming at the libs who thought Nancy Pelosi and her gender warriors were gonna keep DECENT AMERICAN FOLKS from BEING HERE.
Of course, even if you do know stuff about Brady you may still think he’s on his way to pursuing this line of grifting. He flashed a red MAGA hat, an accoutrement that is gaining more and more traction as a symbol of white nationalism in America, in his locker back in the primary days. He wasn’t the only one! Patriots’ Coach Bill Belichick wrote a goddamn letter to Trump right before the end of the campaign that basically amounted to an endorsement, that Trump then read on stage. And Pats’ owner Robert Kraft is also his pal, and was even shouted out at Trump’s pre-Inauguration dinner in D.C. for his most deep-pocketed donors.
And hey, it’s not like their fans are cool guys, either! Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, a toxic masculinity-humping outpost for the world’s worst people, is a Boston sports fan. A Red Sox fan yelled a racial slur and threw a bag of peanuts at Adam Jones a mere two seasons ago. Yankees’ pitcher CC Sabathia told ESPN, “I’ve never been called the N-word” anywhere but in Boston.
Bill Russell, the legendary Celtics center and 11-Time NBA champion, the greatest Boston athlete of all time by a considerable margin, called Boston a “Flea Market of racism” in his wonderful memoir Second Wind. “It had all varieties, old and new, and in their most virulent form. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-‘em-back-to-Africa racists, and in the university areas phony radical-chic racists… Other than that, I liked the city.”
Remember that scumbag teen, bused into DC by his racist-ass private school to protest a woman’s right to choose, smirking at a Native American military veteran while wearing that dumb little red hat as his schoolmates stood around and did tomahawk chops? Remember how, at first, everyone saw what was happening for what it was, entitled little shits being racist and disrespectful, until this kid’s wealthy parents hired a PR firm to run interference and coach him up to do an interview where, even if he was saying the right things on paper, he still seemed like a low-boil sociopath?
The people I am sitting here roasting for their support of Trump have tried to run the same playbook. Brady backed off a little when his wife clearly told him to, said that he didn’t actually have political opinions at all, that actually he was “a positive person,” and that Trump was just his friend he supported because he always supports his friends, even if he did think it would be cool if he won. I’m not actually with him, he’s just my friend is somehow even more unnerving in its way, because what kind of weirdo do you have to be to be friends with Donald Trump? Is he a fun guy to hang out with? Is Brady really so vacant that he hangs out with this doddering fool for access to golf courses? If Brady really does want to satisfy the Daniel Radcliffes of the world, wouldn’t he find it in his heart to distance himself from the president everyone hates? But he doesn’t, presumably because he sees nothing wrong with it, because his worldview lines up with that of our racist president.
Kraft insists he doesn’t agree with Trump’s rhetoric on Kaepernick, but it’s not as if he’s cast the man aside. Belichick won’t even deign to answer a question on that matter, because he is a robotic psychopath who only thinks and talks about football.
Look, it doesn’t matter if the Patriots like it or not, they are the official team of American White Nationalism, the MAGA Boys On the Field. You can’t implicitly or explicitly support Trump, who reads speeches written by Stephen Miller as a matter of course, play in a market whose sporting culture is renowned for its racism, have a decade-plus organizational obsession with undersized white receivers, and be called, no shit, the Patriots, without getting the vile Fox News Soup that poisoned half the country on your shirt. Try to put on a bib of distancing yourself, deflecting questions, telling everyone your wife told you to stop talking about it, that shit isn’t gonna work. You’re the MAGA Kid. It’s on you forever. It stalks and haunts you.
When you root for the Patriots, you are associating yourself with a virulent and revolting strain of politics that seeks to Make America Great Again—which is to say, white, European, English-speaking. And look, I understand if you’ve been rooting for Boston teams your whole life. Fandom is a hard drug to quit. But please, look at yourself, look at who these guys put out for, and reconsider. Think about if you would want to find yourself in a crowd of sweaty, white men chanting WE’RE STILL HERE while a Trump supporter egged you on. Are you one-hundred percent sure you’re comfortable with that?
The Patriots don’t play in Boston, they play in Foxborough.
Good offseason for your team last year...:)
I have been astonished for many years at ESPN. Their agenda, so at odds with actual sports, is difficult to understand. But I gave up trying.
Remember the TV blackouts?
Me and my dad used to go to games at Schaefer Stadium for almost nothing....so cheap.
Been to the new stadium once...free lux box orange seat tics during a Carolina pre-season game opening year.
Yea....it was VERRY nice...Brand new stadium.
NE and it’s encompassing moonbats and complete dem controlled gov may SUCK complete ASS but at least we got teams that WIN.
Something at least...
The left outdoes themselves everyday.
Russell only averaged 15 points and 22.5 rebounds for the 13 seasons he played. .
By comparison, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds, in his 1961–62, season, averaging a career 30.07 points (second-best all time behind Michael Jordan) and 22.9 rebounds (all-time leader).
Not to mention, he is the only player in NBA history to average 40 and 50 points in a season, score 100 points in a single game, and grab over 2,000 rebounds in a single season. Plus he also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and 11 rebounding titles in addition to an assist title. Just saying.
Gee, Patriot hating much?
But, imagine you didn’t know anything about football, or who Tom Brady was, or anything like that. You would think that you were watching some square-jawed grifter throwing red meat to the hogs at an alt-right rally, screaming at the libs who thought Nancy Pelosi and her gender warriors were gonna keep DECENT AMERICAN FOLKS from BEING HERE.
Projection projection projection.
“I like the Pats. I’ve liked them since I was a kid, when they sucked.”
Grogan will always be my QB, until somebody else plays with a neck brace on a regular basis.
And yet he stayed and won all those championships. Boston and Red Auerbach made Russell and vice versa.
I know a lot of the cognoscenti love Russell and even place him above Jordan as TGTEW* but as a man I've always found him to be a bitter arrogant ass.
*: The Greatest There Ever Was
Corbin Smith needs to take a year long trip to the innards of Zimbabwe, South Africa & other African Continent countries to how blacks on their own function & produce.
I remember “The Heifer Project” organized by AMERICAN FARMERS.
They arranged for pregnant heifers to be shipped to South Africa....to help get fresh milk to kids & to grow herds that would give them a better future.
They killed & ate the heifers.
THAT says it all, IMO.
1000% all the way-—all day & night.
Normally I’d be for the team playing against the Pats for a variety of reasons - but since I don’t care anymore about the NFL, I say “Go Pats!” just to trigger leftists and annoy them no end. No other reason is needed.
Let’s put it this way: I’m not hating Brady and Belicheat and Hatriots for politics.
Not in this case, anyway. I’m conservative. I still dislike many conservatives, even if (yikes) we agree.
But this idiot as well as all of us should realize, most of those fans are probably nut-job leftists, as most NEers are. So really it’s all non-sensical.
“people hate the Patriots because they dare to start a few white players”
“White fans HATE white players.”
Oh come on. Ridiculous. No one is thinking about that or anything close. I never gave it a thought until YOU brought it up. 17 years in.
Why? It’ll only boost their 80% liberal fans.
Hey, you’re a true fan. I can’t blame the locals for loving their team.
I just happen to despise Brady and Belichick personally and for aspects of the game (whining, cheating). Somehow they work together great for the sport. They ARE talented, regardless of any shenannigans. W/o Brady, Bel didn’t do that much. Didn’t save the Browns. They ended up turning into our Ravens. (And his 1 year on staff of our beloved Colts hasn’t helped his reputation here.)
Watch for when the Big Couple leaves. You might have some tough times again soon. (Or not - we’ll see how well their front office has truly been doing.)
I think if you ask any long time New England fan, we expect this to be near the end of the run. They need to get a QB in this draft or the next.
Who wouldn’t want THAT job?
They should. There’s a good chance that there is solid foundation to build on.
OTOH, who really wants to look like a flop after these?
Thanks for this, have to root for them today since that’s where hubby’s got his bet. Now I can do so with a happy heart, knowing they are MAGA all the way. The rest of this piece is a bit loopy!
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