Maybe its time to embrace the role

bogengames · Sep 9, 2015

You be William money from Missouri dynamited the Rock Island Ferry, killed
women and children. Yeah, I killed women and children and everything else thats walked or crawled and I'm here to kill you little bill for what you done to my friend .Maybe its time to go Eastwood on the NFL

Nunchucks · Sep 9, 2015

Deserve's got nothing to do with it

Froob · Sep 9, 2015

That's what I've been saying, why take the reputation as cheaters and not actually be cheating? Let's cheat as much as we can. We get punished when we don't cheat so may as well be doing it.

reflexblue · Sep 9, 2015

Embrace the Hate for it is Born of Envy.

condon84 · Sep 9, 2015

I'm all for it.

upstater1 · Sep 9, 2015

This is pro wrestling kind of thinking however.

Look, the NFL really screwed the Raiders for years because of Al Davis. If I had been a Raider fan, I would have stopped watching.

I have no interest in the drama. Honestly, pro wrestling bores me to tears. If I want drama, I'll watch a movie or read a book. The NFL is not a great place to go if you like gossip.

This kind of stuff will only make me lose interest in the NFL. I have always been a huge fan of the Patriots, but Belichick's dispassionate approach, the approach that makes me focus on the actual game itself, has turned the Patriots into my #1 sports pastime after this last decade or more. I've been around since Fairbanks, and quite frankly, this team with the Fairbanks drama, then Erhardt craziness, then the Meyer squabble, the Ray Berry drug years, the Kiam missile and on to McPherson, and finally holy hell Parcells! We've had drama for 3 decades before Belichick even showed up and finally started focusing on football.

I take no interest in the NFL dramatics.

sb1 · Sep 9, 2015

Just win and keep doing it. Repeat and Threepeat.

That is by far the best answer to all of this. Imagine how much of a gut punch Malcolm Butler's INT must have been for Patriot haters across the nation including in the media and the league office. Let's do it to them again and again and again and again.

borg · Sep 9, 2015

From the minute opposing teams step off the bus at Gillette, I want guys wearing Kraft Production vests swarming their players/ coaches/ owner/ league officials.....pointing cameras ...Cameras everywhere. I want ceiling cameras aimed at visitors locker room doors, in the hall ways. Signs inside that locker room reminding opponents that nothing is safe. I want Kraft Productions swarming the enemy's hotel. I want suspicious looking waiters and maids eyeballing these teams. I want workers dressed as electricians standing by elevators. I want unmarked black vans with satellite dishes parked in the hotel parking lot
From the minute these guys land in NE to the second they lift off.......pyschological warfare 2.0. It's On!!
(Kraft should hire the Scientologists...they know exactly how to intimidate defectors

)

PS...if I lived up in NE...I would be printing up Kraft Production Tee shirts and getting rich. Hey El Presidente....when you steal my idea.....I get 20%. I'll appoint Ian as my broker

primetime · Sep 9, 2015

Time to recognize that the NFL is an entertainment business, little different than the WWE. There's less acting involved in the action, but the overarching narrative is absolutely just as scripted. We root for the heel, and have for a while. Best to accept that and enjoy the football games.

Palm Beach Pats Fan · Sep 9, 2015

Every vague allegation anyone anywhere makes, even anonymously, now becomes "Aha! Yes, that's just another way that they cheated!"

So....I've stopped trying to reason with the haters.

Believe what you want, I'll believe what I want, and my team will still pummel yours.

Ivan · Sep 9, 2015

upstater1 said:
This is pro wrestling kind of thinking however.

Look, the NFL really screwed the Raiders for years because of Al Davis. If I had been a Raider fan, I would have stopped watching.

I have no interest in the drama. Honestly, pro wrestling bores me to tears. If I want drama, I'll watch a movie or read a book. The NFL is not a great place to go if you like gossip.

This kind of stuff will only make me lose interest in the NFL. I have always been a huge fan of the Patriots, but Belichick's dispassionate approach, the approach that makes me focus on the actual game itself, has turned the Patriots into my #1 sports pastime after this last decade or more. I've been around since Fairbanks, and quite frankly, this team with the Fairbanks drama, then Erhardt craziness, then the Meyer squabble, the Ray Berry drug years, the Kiam missile and on to McPherson, and finally holy hell Parcells! We've had drama for 3 decades before Belichick even showed up and finally started focusing on football.

I take no interest in the NFL dramatics.

Yep. I still love the Patriots but the NFL as a league is as corrupt as FIFA and that has caused me to really despise the league as a whole. I think Goodell, Pash, Kensil, Vincent and others on the league office should be brought up on criminal charges for the efforts to try and destroy the reputations of Brady, Belichick, and the Patriots and I think everyone who can should get rid of any package that includes ESPN, I'm looking into that right now. I will never buy any NFL sponsored merchandise again and believe that is really the only thing we as a fan base can actually do to make any kind of difference. I think the Patriots should close the pro shop and refuse to sell any gear of any kind from here on out until the entire league office has been cleaned out. It won't happen but it should imo. And while they are likely contractually bound to allow ESPN on the premises that should instruct everyone who talks to them to only say " sorry but I don't talk to liars."

raduray · Sep 9, 2015

We're in our opponents' heads.

" At least one coach ran fake plays during his practice just in case. Think about that."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...--opponents-through-the-years--192105513.html

condon84 · Sep 9, 2015

primetime said:
Time to recognize that the NFL is an entertainment business, little different than the WWE. There's less acting involved in the action, but the overarching narrative is absolutely just as scripted. We root for the heel, and have for a while. Best to accept that and enjoy the football games.

Like boxing. Someone has to be the bad guy. We're rooting for Money May!

Soul_Survivor88 · Sep 9, 2015

No....the Pats are victims, not villains

Whitt25 · Sep 9, 2015

Dunno if I'd call it embracing the role, but I'm indifferent to being called a cheater (yes, other fans me a cheater even though I don't play for the team). After dealing with spygate comments for years and years, I have the thickest skin ever. They can call us whatever the **** they want. People talk. Words are just words. Let's just go out there and break some bones, bring home some W's.

Rob0729 · Sep 9, 2015

Sorry, I don't care if the rest of the country hates the Patriots, but I will never embrace the "cheaters" moniker. Forget that I don't want my favorite team labeled as cheaters. It is massively unfair to all the players and coaches who busted their arses to win a Super Bowl or in many cases two, three, or even four.

RobertWeathers · Sep 9, 2015

I'm lucky enough to travel all over and talk to other NFL Fans.

Some are informed and know that Spygate and Deflategate were railroad jobs. Some aren't.

I have not, nor will ever embrace any narrative that suggests that the New England Patriots are cheaters.

Anytime the uninformed bring up Spygate I shove BB/Article IX/Goody memo bypassing the competition committee and not knowing the rule down their throat. All teams videotape. All teams steal signals. All teams still do.

I've been doing that for years and will always fight back.

From my perspective, with the hits Goody's perceived integrity have taken with Ray Rice, AP and Deflategate the uninformed are starting to see how sketchy Goody and the NFL really is.

No NFL team is pure as the driven snow- Pats included but to embrace that they cheat is accepting it.

resdubwhite · Sep 9, 2015

bogengames said:
You be William money from Missouri dynamited the Rock Island Ferry, killed
women and children. Yeah, I killed women and children and everything else thats walked or crawled and I'm here to kill you little bill for what you done to my friend .Maybe its time to go Eastwood on the NFL

Because next time. they'll go Pete Rose on BB. Ban for life, no canton.

newenglandsports11 · Sep 9, 2015

I want Brady to shove Goodell off the stage at this years SB MVP ceremony as BB smirks and Kraft rushes to RG's side. Then to look directly in the camera and say "F*ck ESPN"

Uncle Rico · Sep 9, 2015

http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2015-new-england-patriots-1728783368?utm_expid=66866090-52.r5txldOmRkqnbJxnyozIeA.0&utm_referrer=http://deadspin.com/

Good place to start the embracing. Very NSFW language, but hilarious as always. Sounds like a fan of ESPN:

Now we know for certain that this whole fiasco went down because the rest of the NFL wanted this team punished for cheating in a THOUSAND different ways: spying, hacking, scuffing, pine tarring, stealing play sheets, cribbing notes, shredded evidence, embezzling, suspiciously preventing fumbles, racketeering, cooked books, cut brakes, arson, pipe bombs, booby traps, bear traps, trap doors, illegal formations, secret f* dungeons, satellite reconnaissance, visitor’s room glory hole cameras, x-ray playsheet analysis, Clomid planted in Robert Mathis’s glove box, MURDER. Tell me a way in which the Patriots have engaged in deliberate subterfuge, and I will believe it.

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