I could understand that, for sure, but to me watching a team that beautiful and that perfect is thrilling. It only comes around a few times a lifetime and it’s simply incredible to watch athleticism, artistry, talent, and teamwork come together like that. I never much liked basketball, but the Bulls had me watching–not because some team in Chicago was finally winning championships, but because watching them was like watching a well-orchestrated ballet.
And that’s kind of how I felt about the Pats the first half or so of the season. (By the second half of the season, they began to look beatable, and I never thought the Pats winning the Bowl was a foregone conclusion.) The mechanical precision in which they eviscerated opponents was awesome to watch. In a football league with such parity, it was simply amazing to watch a team come together so well that it was operating in a completely different league than all other teams.
No thumbdick, I am fine with them honoring Hill. I’m taking them to task for not honoring someone the rest of the NFL honored. They could, like they did the weekend after Sean Taylor died, have honored Taylor too and kept doing it like Wilfork did. But they couldn’t do it. Because they are (imperfect) arrogant assholes.
Let me try to explain this in a way your peabrain can comprehend: The Patriots DID honor the fallen Redskin. Did the Redskins ever honor the fallen Patriot? Doesn’t that make the Redskins far bigger scumbags than the Patriots in this grief-based dick-measuring contest you’ve created?
The entire NFL has lined up to collectively suck Taylor’s deceased dick this year. It was a horrible crime. It was a really sad end to a decent guy who had finally learned how to behave as a man.
But don’t, for one second, try to suggest that Taylor deserved more wailing and gnashing of teeth, from anyone.
In any case, do you really think that someone is any more or less “honored” by stickers on a helmet?
I don’t understand why anyone needs to justify a feeling. For example: I hate the Eagles. I hate the fans even more. I have my reasons and if they go to the big game again, I’ll be rooting against them as always.
Eagles fans will probably never understand how I can hate their beloved team - and no matter how I try to explain, I’m sure a rabid fan will produce a counterpoint that to him makes sense, but has no bearing on my feelings about those wretched Eagles. I’ve been a Giants fan since childhood.
The OP’s question seems arrogant (not the OP, the question) - don’t most fans hate some team or the other? It’s as though we all *should * love the Pats because they’ve had a great season and if we don’t, we need a damn good reason why not. Those who have stated their reasons have been “shot down” by others (see storyteller’s point by point argument of Aangelica’s post).
I don’t love the Patriots - I like Randy Moss and I was happy to see him score a TD in the game. (uh-oh - now someone will come in to tell me why I shouldn’t like Moss).
Sure, but the US didn’t luck into it’s first Superbowl win on a tuck rule versus the Raiders and then a completely nonsensical asinine frustrating breakdown by the special teams of the Steelers the next weekend.
Frankly, if you didn’t hate the Eagles, you would have to justify that. That’s kind of the point of this thread. You love your team, you hate it’s natural enemies, and every other team is basically background noise. For most fans, the Patriots in and of themselves shouldn’t engender any particular feeling.
So outside of the Dolphins, Bills, Jets, Colts, Steelers and Chargers, you really do kinda need a reason to hate them.
FOXBOROUGH, MA—As the once-invincible, still-insufferable Patriots attempt to come to grips with their 17-14 Super Bowl loss to the Giants, the death of their dream to go undefeated, and the possible end of their dynasty, almost every other person in America is reveling in what they consider the perfect ending to New England’s season…
I didn’t start anything. You did. I wouldn’t have fucked with a bitterly disappointed Patriot fan on a bet.
No one team honored Sean Taylor. The NFL did. All season. The Patriots decided they were too cool to do that, wouldn’t look good on the Road to the Superbowl DVDs. So (most of them) did it one game then scraped off the stickers.
The NFL didn’t honor Marquis Hill. The Patriots did. As a team, by themselves. So no. There really were no bigger “scumbags” on this issue than the Patriots.