Patriots, Classless, Unsportsmanlike
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I sat through a nationally televised Pats game to see if they really do run the score and try to embarass their opponents. The Redskins were exposed as a museum of overpaid underachievers by the Patriots. There will be consequences esspecially after Wes Welker's late touchdown where he spiked the football in jubilation when the game was in fact a blowout, by then.
Yep. Fourth quarter rolls around and the Pats are scoring with sheer desperation and all of them spiking the ball like they've won the Super Bowl. Statement! I think back and can't remember a team ever doing this. The Patriots play until the final second trying to run the score up on Washington. Wow!
How cool would it be if in Week 15 someone rips Brady's cute smirking head off when he's diving head first on 4th&2 in the 4th quarter when the score is 73-0? I bet you the league's players would smile and nod. That is what will happen. The classless Pats will lose one of those key players on a meaningless play but who better than their best player, their emblem Brady?
Once again Belichick dodges questions and players tow the company line during the post-game. If they were trying to be hated, the us against the world only for real, not just talk, they are succeeding. No one outside New England will celebrate their triumphs, unless they are transplants who fled the blizzards and nor'easters for warmer climes.
That was sad, what they did to the Redskins and you cannot make the argument that they did it because they could. Its like kicking someone who is down and saying you are doing it because you could. What happened to honor?
These cheating hissy-fit throwing pansies are more dangerously perhaps representing a changing culture in America? No. I won't go that far. Otherwise why would so many of us be repulsed by their unsporting behavior? They are just a reflection of their coach who being such a defensive genius since his Giants days has no room left in his brain for people skills. I read late Halberstam's book, The Education of a Coach. I am dissappointed how Belichick never apologized for cheating and dodged the questions and more so now that his team responds to their cheating the way that they are. I mean what was so hurtful? You cheated. Get over yourself. A simple apology would have been nice.
But when your ego and arrogance reaches such levels, not only do you not say, "I'm sorry, please let's move on," you forget that this is a sport and play 'I'll show them' football the rest of the season. I am now waiting for Brady to suffer a career altering, season-ending, playoff-killing injury because of his coach's inability to deal with criticism. I guess he still has nightmares with gray Cleveland skies and barking sounds.
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