I feel like I've never had to work so hard to enjoy something I love. Friends and relatives from outside New England call/e-mail to needle me thinking they're funny and it's just irritating. I can't watch television, listen to the radio or go online without anti-Patriots spew pissing me off. It's like being under siege. Where normally I'd be basking in wall-to-wall coverage, I find myself limited to snippets here and there from very limited sources.
I've never experienced anything like this. People who never follow football and non-sports mainstream media EVERYWHERE are piling on the hate.
But most of all, I cannot forgive our own local sports media for failing to bring sanity and level-headed logic to the discussion (Matt Chatham and a couple others excepted).
All I can say is thank God for this place. A win Sunday will go a long way to righting two weeks of wrongs.
I know how you feel. On one hand, I don't care what these hyenas say anymore, and I don't care what their mindless mob thinks either. This latest assault was so over-the-top stupid, caring what the talking heads say is like getting irritated with North Korean media telling its people that its leader rides unicorns.
On the other hand, this isn't a victimless crime.
I'm not even angry anymore. I'm just disgusted. I think this was my favorite Patriots season this year, maybe even more than 2007, and the creeps in the media (the American media...) just managed to ruin it with their relentless hate and venom. I really don't feel satisfied calling it "the media" anymore. I feel like doing it gives them a pass on accountability. I think this instead needs to be labeled for what it is, which is a stain on our national society. It's the American media, sleezebags of the lowest order, completely devoid of any virtue.
I just feel better about it holding them accountable, instead of being vague.
The same can be said for the mob of mindless degenerates who are using this to fuel their real, envy-driven hatreds (not your joking relatives).
I just don't have any respect for a people so easily manipulated by bad arguments on television. The word contempt comes to mind.
How this season ends for me now depends on the team. In many ways, I felt like this after week #4 in Kansas City, too. I was on this very forum, battling a who's who of people on how Brady isn't in some steep decline, about how he wouldn't be traded, about how the Patriots would find a way to right the ship (hopefully), if we could fix the offensive line. That was pretty depressing, too, coming off a long off season that gave me lots of room for optimism. I was really disgusted with a lot of things after week #4, as well.
And week #5 was one of my favorite football moments in all my years of watching the NFL.
Hopefully this Sunday is week #5 all over again, only with a Lombardi at the end of it.
Listening to a media abandon journalistic integrity entirely, while building a narrative from thin air about the Patriots compromising the "integrity of the game," has been a vile irony to witness