Ellis Hobbs should also tone it down and act like a Patriot.
Honestly, I'm saddened by all the posters here who are giving him a free pass. Like a bad parent who backs his/her kid for vandalizing the school and says it's all the teachers' faults.
No, let's own up here. Hobbs acted like a jerk. Doing during the heat of the game is one thing. Doing it at midfield when the teams come together after the game is an entirely different thing.
I'm giving him a 'free pass' because I have no idea when exactly he did it. I mean, the Pats players ran out on the field with time still on the clock. Did he run straight to midfield then, in all the Chaos, and do it out of emotion? Or did he walk up to Merriman at midfield and do it instead of a handshake? We'll never know, but come on, that was an emotional victory.
We know Ellis is an emotional player. We know that Colvin was also doing some taunting WELL after the final gun. If you watched the videos posted here which had video of the Patriots coming to their locker room then you know that even TROY BROWN did the 'shotgun' dance as he went into the tunnel. This was obviously a team-wide feeling and a team-wide emotion.
Something internal sparked it and I'm not going to blame a single player for acting that way. I feel like the Chargers deserved every bit of what they got. They were arrogant and ****y, and the Patriots put them in their place.
Count me as one New England fan who roots for this team because of WHO they are and HOW they have acted instead of just What Name is on their jersey.
This team has often been called dirty. This team mocked TO's celebration in SB 39. This team is often one that goes on the 'disrespect card'. Many have said that the celebration was classless because it occured 'off the field' and I find that stupid. If it happened at mid-field, during the emotion of a win as seconds still ticked off the clock, then that isn't 'off the field'.
That term, to me, is used to describe how a player acts when the emotions of the game have left him. The emotions of that game hadn't left the players involved. LT standing by his comments about BB a day after the game speak more to him than anything a Pats player did in the heat of an emotional victory.
That being said, LT was mad at one guy's actions. He is a deceitful liar for painting the whole team and its coach for it.
And then standing by those words a day later after the emotion had left. Yes.