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Fixit · 11-09-2007, 11:56 AM

Here's a promising candidate: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ots/index.html

Ishdul · 11-09-2007, 12:04 PM

I propose a global ban of the c-word, and all discussions of it.

PAPatsjunkie · 11-09-2007, 12:09 PM

"But the following week, after the Patriots lost at Indianapolis in the AFC title game, Belichick brushed past Colts' quarterback Peyton Manning."

$#!%I$%@#(%I!(@$#(!$)!@

Pujo · 11-09-2007, 12:14 PM

Hey, the Patriots being evil is a good storyline. We all know it's BS, but when an actor plays a villan, it doesn't make the actor evil. From the media's point of view, the Pats are just characters in a storyline made to sell papers and get visits to their sites. From the media's point of view, everyone's a character like that. Half the time I think these bozos are told which angle to go with by their editors. It's a good story for them, but we know the real story is the Pats at 9-0 and playing better football than perhaps anyone we've ever seen.

CTPatsFan · 11-09-2007, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Fixit

Here's a promising candidate: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ots/index.html

OH NO! The Pats are no longer the most self-righteous????

Wil the shame never end???

Fixit · 11-09-2007, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pujo

Hey, the Patriots being evil is a good storyline. We all know it's BS, but when an actor plays a villan, it doesn't make the actor evil. From the media's point of view, the Pats are just characters in a storyline made to sell papers and get visits to their sites. From the media's point of view, everyone's a character like that. Half the time I think these bozos are told which angle to go with by their editors. It's a good story for them, but we know the real story is the Pats at 9-0 and playing better football than perhaps anyone we've ever seen.

It's not the storyline that bothers me; it's the lies used to support it.

Ishdul · 11-09-2007, 12:18 PM

I can understand the Patriots as villains, because everybody who isn't a fan of a dominating team SHOULD hate them, but the Colts are the easy #2 in the league in terms of un-likability. I have not any non-Colts fan who considers the Colts to be "good".

Scouse Patriot · 11-09-2007, 12:33 PM

Can't believe I wasted minutes of my life reading that *****. Another one with a chip on their shoulder. Silly little girl.

xmarkd400x · 11-09-2007, 12:43 PM

This article is garbage. Let me explain why:

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Perhaps it was when coach Bill Belichick shoved a cameraman after a game ...

More like bumped him on the way by. He did not shove out of anger like this sentence implies.

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or when he refused to acknowledge Jets coach Eric Mangini after a game ...

This makes him classless? How?

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or when the Patriots danced on the Chargers' logo at midfield after a playoff game.

First sports team in the history of sports to celebrate a win. Give me an effing break.

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"They showed no class at all, absolutely no class," said Chargers' running back LaDainian Tomlinson. "And maybe it comes from their head coach."

This quote is in reference to the Patriots imitating Shawne Merriman's "Lights out" sack dance. Lesson: Take all the sterioids you want, but don't mock another man's sack dance.

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Belichick brushed past Colts' quarterback Peyton Manning. Maybe, you had to wonder, Tomlinson was right.

Manning said Belichick talked to him. It just wasn't on the field. Good God, can class only happen in front of a camera?

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To define their new role, they even traded for the Raiders' most controversial player, wide receiver Randy Moss. Goody goodies no more.

The Patriots were clearly getting a controversial player for the sake of getting a controversial player. No way were they getting a deal on a player where they knew something that nobody else did. /sarcasm

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In the old days of the dynasty, New England probably would treat Shula like Vanderjagt or Mitchell or Schottenheimer, scolding him for a total lack of public decorum.

Actually, the Patriots are doing what they always do. Say it on the field. They would have said the same stuff about Shula then that they do now.

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The Patriots, while more powerful than ever, are not the model citizens they used to be.

Right. Can you name me the last Patriot to get arrested?