The Unforgiven

[StraightCashHomey81]

Massarrotti
Tomase
Mangini
Tom Jackson
Matt Walsh
Joey Porter
The Ref who didn't call in holding on Howard's kick return in SB XXXI
Mark Schlereth
Reche Caldwell

 

[jsull87]

I haven't quite forgiven God for SB42 yet.

gets my tick

 

[ALP]

Bill Polian for his "ref influencing" which at the end of the day resulted in many bad calls agaisnt the pats over the years....

goodell would be another

 

[Brady2Welker]

Bernard Pollard.

Ruining two of my favorite player's knees, in consecutive seasons.

 

[jays52]

Bill Polian for bastardizing a once gritty game into the NBA with pads because his soft ass team couldn't play real football. He's probably the only person involved with the NFL I actually want to punch in the head until both my hands break.

Mike Effin Carey for calling in the grasp and roughing super tight all night and making a non-call with a clearly game ending in the grasp call directly in front of him. This was of course after he was calling holds super tight all night (not his job, btw) and neglected to call them on the drive from hell.

 

[Brady2Welker]

Bill Polian for bastardizing a once gritty game into the NBA with pads because his soft ass team couldn't play real football. He's probably the only person involved with the NFL I actually want to punch in the head until both my hands break.

Mike Effin Carey for calling in the grasp and roughing super tight all night and making a non-call with a clearly game ending in the grasp call directly in front of him. This was of course after he was calling holds super tight all night (not his job, btw) and neglected to call them on the drive from hell.

You don't like professional arena ball?

 

[jays52]

You don't like professional arena ball?

Haha don't get me started dude. I have a special kind of hatred reserved for Polian for turning professional football into a circus sideshow.

 

[Brady2Welker]

Haha don't get me started dude. I have a special kind of hatred reserved for Polian for turning professional football into a circus sideshow.

I just think its absolutely, completely, ******ed that the competition committee passes rules to enhance the passing game the way they did. Especially when the leader of this committee is the GM of a franchise with arguably one of the best pure passers of all time. That just blows my mind, every time.

 

[Tucker]

easy answer for me.

Curtis Martin

I was crushed when he left, still am actually.

 

[jays52]

I just think its absolutely, completely, ******ed that the competition committee passes rules to enhance the passing game the way they did. Especially when the leader of this committee is the GM of a franchise with arguably one of the best pure passers of all time. That just blows my mind, every time.

It's truly amazing. What really is impressive to me is that the other members (many of whom represented defensive teams) allowed him to push that agenda through. It must have been one of those "************, Polian won't shut up about this, so let's just let him have his way. I'm hungry, it's been a long day, I just wanna go bang my wife and eat a sandwich." type situations. I'm just hoping that this dramatic swing will eventually normalize. I hope there's some internal demand for defense because this one sided game is becoming extremely boring.

 

[Brady2Welker]

It's truly amazing. What really is impressive to me is that the other members (many of whom represented defensive teams) allowed him to push that agenda through. It must have been one of those "************, Polian won't shut up about this, so let's just let him have his way. I'm hungry, it's been a long day, I just wanna go bang my wife." type situations. I'm just hoping that this dramatic swing will eventually normalize because this one sided game is becoming extremely boring.

First and foremost I don't understand how a GM can be part of the competition committee to begin with, that seems like making the player the dealer simultaneously, the party that doesn't benefit are the teams and fans that enjoy the game it should be played. My friend who's a Steelers fan once told me that he misses the old defensive games that would be like 10-3 for the final score, because of dominant defensive play. This was coming of 2007 which initially I was thinking "hell no" but the more I think about it, this really just is a movement to make it a less physical league, and I too miss dominant defensive play.

The second thing I don't get is how these rules got passed, did anyone not notice that he was trying to take away the exact parts of a defense that shut down his team every time in the playoffs. I know it boosts ratings to have a pass happy league, not to mention increases game length for more advertisements but come on man. Also the whole hypothetical thing of removing the three point stance, for player safety. As well as the possibility of even banning lowering the shoulder to prevent head trauma. If they ban the three point stance, not only will the pass-happy league get worse, but lowering shoulder rule. Jesus I'll just stop watching, because by then Arena ball will be more quintessential football. And don't confuse this as me hating 'player safety' I'm all for improved helmets, pads, etc. That's all good in my book, but these players are payed enormous amounts of money for both their talent and the risk. I know their knees are shot when they hit 40, but they also got incredible amounts of money in their 20s, as well as many privileges that the average Joe has (which one of us can just afford to up and buy court-side tickets to a game whenever we want?). Arctic Crab Fishermen (deadliest catch, lol) get payed out the ass for their risk, part of Julius Pepper's 18m contract should be covering the risk.

 

[eagle eye]

Bill Parcells is top of my list, bad enough leaving us but not being allowed to coach for a year and bending the rules to be able to coach the Jets just did it for me. I never liked the Jets but that made things really bitter for me. I was gutted when Curtis Martin went there too but I blamed the Tuna for that too.

 

[Mike the Brit]

Adam Vinatieri bugs me though.

Sorry. Who?

 

[Mike the Brit]

Seriously, just Jack Tatum.

 

[5 Rings for Brady!!]

Seriously, just Jack Tatum.

I agree that Tatum needs to be in a seperate level of hate.

But I have to put Goodell and Polian on the list of all time scum.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

Tomase & Polian are good starts, then


ESPN, for spygate hype around-the-clock, running with Tomase's Ram's walk-through garbage, and also the made-up story about Moss just before the Super Bowl

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Everyone on my list has been named. Here are mine in order (1--8 are obvious as to "why"):
1) Tatum :scream:
2) Tatum
3) Tatum
4) Ratgini
5) Tomass
6) Walsh
7) Pollard
8) Dreith
9) Jackson (the shot at Belichick was gratuitous and had no other aim than to stir dissension in the SB winner's lockerroom; the man is a phony with a capital "f")
10) Parcells (for how he left, not for what he did here)
11) Goodell. (tough one because folks outside NE think he was biased towards the Pats during Spygate; I don't have a problem with how he handled Spygate, but I think he operates with a New York bias and then bends over backwards for small market teams, leaving the Pats and a few others in no man's land)

Not on my list:
Adam. He was just looking out for his own economic self-interest.
Polian. He's trying to get every advantage he can for his team and I don't have a problem with that; if the league or other teams let him get away with it, that's on them, not him.
Tyree. He was just playing the game (agree with PJ that I can't forgive "God" for that one).

 

[resdubwhite]

Tatum has to come across as the nastiest POS ever to play the game. Unapologetic to the core.

He's top of my list.

 

[Spiral]

The 1978 team had the most dominant offensive line the Patriots have ever had. They would have rolled right over and through the Steelers in the playoffs. Until Fairbanks quit on them.

 

[captain stone]

How did you forget the PI call against Ellis Hobbs in Indy??

Damn! How could I have forgotton the "Face-Guarding" non-penalty penalty? What a criminal, disgracefullly-officiated game that was; one of the darkest moments in the history of football, rivaling the Black Sox scandal.