Let’s face it. Without schadenfreude, there would be no professional sports.
First, the Pats got dinged for cheating.
Then, instead of trying to improve their relations with the public, they took on a “fuck the world” smug asshole attitude. They ran up the score for no better reason than they could. Their press conferences were chock full of one-line diskish sports cliche responses like, “We just need to execute better” and “We’re just taking it one week at a time.” It wasn’t so much the cliches themselves, but the smug insincere delivery.
Nobody wants an asshole to win. Had they won with a bit of class and dignity, I wouldn’t care about the Pats at all. In fact, had they done that, I would have wanted the Pats to win it all to shut the '72 Dolphins up and deny my rival Giants a ring.
Sorry, after decades of playing the trauma card and living and dying with the curse, the obnoxious Red Sox fans have proved to be as annoying and obnoxious as the worst Yankees or Cowboys fans.
A little success went to too many Boston fans too quickly.
Did you read the way your bullshit paper was crowing about the Boston area and the teams and all else that is great about Boston? If ever a teams fans was putting a jinx on a team, this was the time. Then their was the pre-release of the 19-0 Patriots book on Amazon. Not to mention the fans and pundits that of course gave the Giants no chance to win. Their are even some doper fans trying to blame the Refs.
Yes, Red Sox and Boston fans are no longer liked by fans of other teams. You see it time again.
Welcome to the Evil Empire. In beating us, you became us! 
Jim (Yankee & Giant fan that has always hated the Red Sox, but never the Pats)
a.) No, it hasn’t, not in the Big Book consulted by St. Peter; b.) no, they’re still the California Angels.
Don’t bother trying to persuade me, I’ve stopped listening to the heresy.
Back to the Pats.
“Some men there are love not a gaping pig”
I believe this was actually a Nostradamus prediction anticipating response to the celebrity of Paris Hilton.
By the way, I don’t hate the Patriots. The only professional sports teams I enjoy seeing lose are the ones with loud, obnoxious homers for announcers.
Yo, Bengals.
I really disliked this team this year. I have pulled for them in the past.
75% of it is is me whining. I’m a Redskin Fan. On their way to imperfection this year they hung 52-7 horror on my boys in an epic ass-whipping by a true horses’ ass (Belichick) “What do you want us to do kick a field goal?” Such freakin’ arrogance - and it caught him yesterday. If he had kicked a long but makable one he may well have won the game. But he didn’t. Because he is an arrogant asshole. An imperfect arrogant Asshole.
25% on Sean Taylor. He was killed this year during the season. The NFL chose to honor him by having players wear his number a black circle 21 on their helmets. Non-redskin lovers like Dallas, Philly, and NYG did it - showing some humanity and class IMO. Everyone did this all the rest of the season. Except the Patriots. They chose to wear their teammate Marquis Hill’s 91 (as they had all season). The weekend after Taylor died, they wore 21 then took it off. Only Vince Wilfork (who went to school with and loved Taylor - true of anyone who knew him) continued to wear both numbers. This whole thing sat poorly with me (I thought Taylor was great). I would have preferred them to just do what the rest of the league did. But they couldn’t. Because they are the (imperfect) Patriots.
All I’m saying is that I know Yankee fans who “expect” their team to win, as though it’s a given. Like it’s some kind of scumbag entitlement thing they have going on…
I remember watching many RedSox games this past summer and almost expecting my team to win because they happened to be that good. Sometimes your team just happens to have all the right players and the right kind of formula to make them a perfect match… and when this happens you kind of expect to win… but you don’t abandon your team when they lose. And of course the Boston papers are gonna support their teams.
And the pre-released book? That could have been the same scenario for any team who just happened to have a perfect season… that wasn’t a Patriots thing.
It is not whining to point out that Belichick was an ass during and after that game. The man was an ass.
Sean Taylor’s death was a terrible blow and it’s a credit to all the players that they chose to honor him as they did. I don’t want to start any sort of unwinnable argument over who cared more or who suffered more, but the Pats did acknowledge his loss as they also remembered their own recently lost teammate. I am positive that no one intended any insult to Taylor’s memory.
Let’s see, a local paper was excited that the hometown sports teams had strong seasons. Shocking! As for the fact that Patriots fans were stoked, some book was released on Amazon, the Pats were heavily favored, and a Minnesota Vikings fan is blaming the refs, why yes, that clearly is inarguable proof that Red Sox fans have gotten completely out of control. :rolleyes:
Look at “Ayn Rand’s” “prediction” for the Superbowl. In my mind it depicts the way Belichick sees himself and his team.
Maybe it’s a realistic view… but it’s still assholish.
Wow, they really nailed why I hate Ayn Rand.
It’s hardly limited to them. Look up ancient Greece and the procedure for ostracizing anyone who became too prominent in the city. See Ostracism - Wikipedia.
As I mentioned in the Atheistic Epiphany thread, I don’t hate the team, or it’s managers, players, coaches, owners or water boys.
But I savor the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the fans of the New England Patriots. Their tears, and the rent clothing are among the small bits recompense available to those, such as myself, and the many thousands of others who have heard the monotonously gleeful exaggerations of their heroes performances.
It is sport. The sportsmen among them will play again. The assholes will prance and posture again. The way it balances out is that the penalty of hubris is derisive laughter, and hilarity.
Eat shit and die, Pat’s fans!!!
Tris
Can I ask a question that’s been on my mind for a while now?
Where are all these NFL coaches that are just sweet, lovable, teddy bears with type-B personalities who look at each game as just another wonderful occasion to have some great fun with all your buddies regardless of whether you win or lose?
Because, every time I hear Bellichek described as a jerk, my first thought is, “compared to whom?”
Admittedly I’m not a football fanatic, but I’ve yet to see a head coach who didn’t appear to be a hyper-aggressive, hyper-competitive, type-A screamer on the edge of a coronary. In short, someone that I’d think was a jerk if I had to actually spend any time near them.
I have to confess that there was one silver lining in the Patriots’ loss – it at least put a cork in certain homer homer homer RAH RAH RAH TV sports announcers who were frikkin annoying as hell!!! :mad:
If only the Patriots could have won without unleashing torrents of those idjits’ gloating upon the airwaves…
Really, guys, there are plenty of us Pats (and Red Sox) fans out here who aren’t the arrogant smug caricatures you’re so steamed about.
ETA: An excellent observation, Sublight.
Mike Tomlin and Tony Dungy spring to mind immediately. But it’s not the screaming thing. Lots of coaches do it, and with good effect. Bellichick is an A-1 jackass off the field as well as on. He has the kind of personality that only his mother could love, and even then only for a few hours on the major holidays, if she were particularly patient that day.
So, Airman Doors, how much time have you spent in Belichick’s company? As opposed to garnering your impressions from media reports?
Tony Dungy.
I have never, ever heard a single bad word uttered about the man, and who once said after a remark about being on The Best Damn Sports Show Period* that it was the last time they’d ever hear him utter that word.
Dungy is widely known to never yell or swear at his players, and to be a soft-spoken all around nice person.
Belichick should take a lesson.
The camera doesn’t lie. I don’t think I could spend 5 minutes with the guy without braining him.
I don’t hate the Patriots, and i was very impressed with their amazing season. I was also happy to see Randy Moss have a good year. Sure, he can be an A-1 jackass, but he’s paid to play football, he’s damn good at it, and it’s a pleasure to watch him when he’s in form. I was also happy to see TO have a good season.
The main reason i was rooting for the Giants is that i like to see the underdogs win. If the Patriots had won, though, there would have been one consolation–idiot Don Shula and the 1972 Dolphins might finally have shut the fuck up.