This article from espn.com http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/071023&sportCat=nfl
It goes a little over the top, but I have to say the premise is convincing. I have come to believe that all the talking about "team" and the assertion that the Pats pay no attention to "stats, touchdowns and points" is a bunch of mularkey. This team is exactly the opposite of what it pretends to be. It is selfish, arrogant, feels entitled, condescending, haughty and worst of all-unsportsmanlike. And it starts with the trifecta of ugly sportsmanship, that is, Belichick, Vrabel, Harrison, Brady and Moss. Obviously, the Patriots don't really care about team and character and all that crap they spew if they are going to sign Randy Moss in the first place. Yes, he is having a monster year, and yes he is a great wide receiver. But, he is still a gigantic gigantic piece of trash. A complete waste of a human being, of not value except for the ability to leap and catch footballs. But, his indiscretions are well documented. Let us move on.
Vrabel is a showboating, dirty, classless, mean and arrogant football player. He doesn't get as much publicity as others on the team, but he hits people low and dirty (ask Drew Bledsoe in the '98 playoffs) and tries to hurt people, much like his lover-buddy Harrison. You don't hear as much about Vrabel because the people he is hurting or diving at are offensive lineman and nobody cares about or sees it. Harrison himself is downright dirty, I wish him nothing but ill.
Belichick is a donkey's nut-sack. Leaving the new cheating scandal aside, for much has been written on that, neverthess Belichick's arrogance is legendary. First of all, he is not a genius. Football does not make men mountains of genius. Bill Belichick does not know more than the next guy about the game of football. His football maxims are trite and ridiculous, and does he actually think we believe his "I misunderstood the rules" line of horse puckey? The league, for its part, is in full damage control mode and won't let out any more information and destroyed much of the accompanying documentation. That leads one to assume there is much more to the story. But even if there isn't, what a sham this man is.
Why are the Pats running up the score every game if they don't care about numbers? What kind of sportmanship is throwing the ball deep down the field when you are up 28 points? I hate this team, this organization. I hate the arrogant coach, I hate the numb-skulled owner, and I hate the pretending to be everything I am not quarterback.
No denying they are good, they are probably the best team in football right now. But that is not why I hate them, I hate them for who they are. They remind me of the Red Sox, that arrogant, over-paid, vain, petulant bunch of pigs that made it to the World Series because Eric Wedge is the worst in-game manager I have ever seen. He is good at managing talent and brining in the right people, but lord's sake he doesn't know how to handle an actual game. Good god.
