Sports Guy All-Brady mailbag

[PAPatsjunkie]

As usual, the Sports guy is spot on when describing what Sunday felt like.

...Brady's knee injury giving birth to a whole new Level of Losing: The "Left At The Altar Loss," when you're waiting for months and months for the season to start (like planning a wedding), then you have your fantasy drafts (the bachelor party), then you have the rehearsal dinner the night before (making your starting fantasy lineups, making your bets, figuring out which games you'll watch Sunday), then you go to the church for the actual wedding (getting in front of the TV for the 1 p.m. ET games) … and as you're standing on the altar, you find out your bride either changed her mind or got run over by the limo driver. That was me and every other Patriots fan Sunday -- we had our tuxedos on, we were ready to go, and suddenly we were sitting in a waiting room in a hot tuxedo waiting for medical updates on our comatose fiancee and halfheartedly trying to talk ourselves into one of the bridesmaids.

 

[roman_maroney]

sports guy is a frontrunner, and the very reason people see NE sports fans in the light that they do. The season is not "gone in 8 seconds". Nobody cares about your self-loathing "why doesnt everyone love us?" mentality. Time to step up as a fan, not put your tail between your legs. When they make the playoff run, he will be right back on the bandwagon. He's not welcome.

 

[oldskool138]

sports guy is a frontrunner, and the very reason people see NE sports fans in the light that they do. The season is not "gone in 8 seconds". Nobody cares about your self-loathing "why doesnt everyone love us?" mentality. Time to step up as a fan, not put your tail between your legs. When they make the playoff run, he will be right back on the bandwagon. He's not welcome.

Hey, we were fans of a "meh" team back in the late-90's. We just need to bust out some old mixed tapes, reinstall Windows '98 and party like it's 1999...again!

 

[PAPatsjunkie]

For the amount of time Simmons had been a Boston fan before they won anything, I dont see how you can call him a frontrunner. I doubt he is giving up on the season, he will still watch. For your star player to go down for the season in the blink of an eye, it's very jarring. Get off your high horse.

 

[Rob0729]

From another question:

If you're looking for a Hollywood comparison, it's clearly "Varsity Blues" (click here for my review): Brady as Lance Harbor (the golden boy with a smoking-hot girlfriend who blew his knee out in the first game), Cassel as Jonathan Moxon (the career backup who never imagined he'd actually play), Wes Welker as Tweeder (the team's most reliable receiver even though he's 5-foot-7), Laurence Maroney as the starting running back with every tool who never gets touches in the end zone and kills your fantasy team, and Bill Belichick as Bud Kilmer (the Hall of Fame coach who isn't afraid to bend the rules). Everything is there except for Billy Bob, the lovable fat guy who scored the championship-winning TD in the movie; we don't have a Billy Bob unless Vince Wilfork can gain another 100 pounds between now and December.

I assume Cassel is spending his free time waiting by the phone for Giselle to call him to come over for a sundae.

 

[Rob0729]

BTW, rule of thumb is to never read anything on ESPN's Page 2. The Surgeon General has issued a warning that excessive exposure to Page 2 can cause brain damage and loss of bodily functions.

 

[Watson's IQ]

sports guy is a frontrunner, and the very reason people see NE sports fans in the light that they do. The season is not "gone in 8 seconds". Nobody cares about your self-loathing "why doesnt everyone love us?" mentality. Time to step up as a fan, not put your tail between your legs. When they make the playoff run, he will be right back on the bandwagon. He's not welcome.

I remember reading columns on the Patriots, Celtics, and Red Sox in good times as well as bad, so I don't really see how you can call him a front runner.

Plenty have their issues with his writing style or his reactionary nature, but I've never questions that he's slavishly devoted to the Pats. It's kind of refreshing in a typically hostile media environment.

 

[Eugene Chung]

I remember reading columns on the Patriots, Celtics, and Red Sox in good times as well as bad, so I don't really see how you can call him a front runner.

Plenty have their issues with his writing style or his reactionary nature, but I've never questions that he's slavishly devoted to the Pats. It's kind of refreshing in a typically hostile media environment.

I think part of the problem is that he hit the scene just as Boston teams started to win again. That being said, I was a little alarmed by his pessimism in his article. He seemed to have that "woe is me" complex that can be a bit aggravating to read. The Pats aren't down, and they're certainly not out...

Pete Prisco's power rankings were way worse than the SG article, though.

 

[Watson's IQ]

I think part of the problem is that he hit the scene just as Boston teams started to win again. That being said, I was a little alarmed by his pessimism in his article. He seemed to have that "woe is me" complex that can be a bit aggravating to read. The Pats aren't down, and they're certainly not out...

Pete Prisco's power rankings were way worse than the SG article, though.

It's pretty tough to argue that they aren't down. Tom Brady to Matt Cassel, no matter how much we want to spin it, is down. Not out, I'm with you 100%

 

[dhamz]

"The weight of Brady's injury didn't fully hit me until I was watching "Mad Men" on Sunday night and Joan Hollaway (the curvy, vindictive redhead in Don Draper's office) gleefully fired her new office rival, Don's new secretary, Jane (a saucy, manipulative ice queen who's quite possibly the best-looking actress since the Jaclyn Smith/Cheryl Ladd combo in "Charlie's Angels"). And I was sitting there thinking, "Are you kidding me? I'm losing Brady and Don Draper's secretary in the span of 12 hours? Really? That's my day today?"

Yeah, that really sums up what it was like to be a Pats fan on Sunday. How does anyone take this DB seriously?

 

[Watson's IQ]

Yeah, that really sums up what it was like to be a Pats fan on Sunday. How does anyone take this DB seriously?

Considering he writes on Page 2, and it's pretty clear that 90% of the stuff he writes is tongue-in-cheek or satirical, anyone who is taking him "seriously" is probably the one with the problem.

 

[thechris]

Pretty funny article. Cheered me up a little bit.

 

[Bella*chick]

Pretty funny article. Cheered me up a little bit.

Me too, except for the last email.

I don't like implications that Brady may never be the same again. He's not Carson Palmer.

And do we even know the full extent of his injury? We know it must be ACL because of the surgery/season ending stuff but do we know anything beyond that?

 

[cartmen]

I remember reading columns on the Patriots, Celtics, and Red Sox in good times as well as bad, so I don't really see how you can call him a front runner.

Plenty have their issues with his writing style or his reactionary nature, but I've never questions that he's slavishly devoted to the Pats. It's kind of refreshing in a typically hostile media environment.

I love Bill but he did say its over when the Sox were down to the Indians and the C's were not going to beat the Lakers. He even said this is not reverse psych the Celts can't score with them. he can be kind of a front runner from time to time