Some of you are still living in a pre-#Framegate world.

The need to defend the team using coherent and sometimes long winded arguments, being baited into long defensive rants because some half-illiterate hick from Iowa or Colorado said "cheater" or "*", whining about the reputation of the poor, hapless Patriots who just can't get a fair shake.

I got news for you people: It's lonely at the top.

More than that, we're now living in the post-Deflatehate world. If you don't get the fact that you've decisively won, you're completely blind. The NFL, and all the haters in the media and across rival fan bases, just went all in with a pair of ****ing 2's. They went down in utter ****ing flames.

Seriously, if you cannot parry the psychotic and nonsensical crying of incoherent Crygate truthers, you need to just stay away from people under 40 on the internet. These are people claiming that we win Superbowls by jamming radio frequencies as if Belichick had military grade technology hidden beneath Gillette stadium. They say that Tom Brady had a guy lingering up in the rafters of stadiums, telling him, in real time mind you, which of his receivers were open via a secret and illegal radio channel.

I mean… does it ruin your day when you someone online say George Bush planted bombs in the World Trade Center? Do you get all hot and bothered that he's attacking the legacy of America?

The haters are straight up trash. Anyone who gets it can deflect this garbage away like a Jedi fighting EP1 battledroids.

Are you going to get your panties in a bunch when they find our hidden volcano lair where we plot world domination and how to steal Christmas?

Rival fan bases are a bunch of whiney losers. They're complete crybabies. I'm honestly on the verge of laughing after typing that because of how true it is.

Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaah! The Patriots and Dorito Dink are making magic flat footballs, they jam our radios and steal our play books out of our home locker rooms when our team is going to the bathroom. Waaaaaaaah! We all know they spy on our practices with drones and tap our telephones. Waaaaah!

Just tell them they're whiney, crying babies, and that they should cry a little more with their batshit crazy conspiracy theories that sound like a job for Jesse Ventura.

It's not hard, and you can go about the rest of your day with a jolly, cheerful whistle.

Cuz they hate us cuz they ain't us.

P.S. I seriously don't see how you guys can get upset over this **** after the comedy that was this summer ending with the Berman decision. Come join us in the post-Framegate world.

Thank you! So done with the debating, finally a logical response to this pathetic sh*t storm and the haters......

It's hard to get beyond the rage. I am trying to just laugh at the haters and show them photos of the 4 Lombardis. It's a difficult transition but it's the only way to move forward and keep my sanity.

The Patriots are actually a bunch of twelve foot tall shape shifting reptilian aliens in disguise...

OP thank you for making that post. I came to the same conclusion in the past 24 hours but I think you put it in words more eloquently than I could have.

Seriously -- we just got done defending our team for 7 months. We won. We saw the absurdity of the situation and shouted it from the rooftops. We got a little traction, the narrative started to change after the appeal transcripts became public, and then we got a judge who agreed with us almost completely.

We had two days to celebrate. It almost seemed like in those two days, the public was mostly on our side; most of the online chatter in the comment section swamps were anti NFL, and the media was all trying to jump back on the bandwagon (it was pretty disgusting). Then, of course, the next round came down in the ESPN and SI pieces. The media turned against us. The commentariat turned against us again. People are calling for new investigations. Everyone loses all sense of perspective.

We know we are right and have been right about just about everything (and the things that our team did wrong were done by other teams too; or other teams do other things wrong that don't get nearly as much attention as we do). When we win, like we did in Deflategate, there will always be something else to throw at us, because we are just one team and can't control the narrative like ESPN and the NFL can. So there will always be that guy online who pisses you off and goads you into an argument that takes 30 minutes of your life, that you can't win. And really, that guy won because he got in your head, and there's no way you convinced him of anything no matter how much reason favored your side.

After this latest rehash of Spygate (new details emerge, only 8 years later!), I am done fighting back. There's no point anymore. I have had so much joy watching this team, and people will try to take that away from us and just by arguing about it, they succeed to a degree because they distract you from the fun of being a part of this team's success. I know that I am privileged to root for one of the greatest runs in sports history. Almost no other sports fan in this country will have that in their lives. It's hard because the accusations get my blood boiling, but the only thing I'm going to try to do for now is to appreciate what I have for its own sake and block out the rest of the noise.

Again I think I repeated what you were saying OP but I am hugely appreciative that you made that post and wanted to chime in, even though it is probably way tl;dr.