Ha Ha! A San Diego writer claims it's the Pats fault the Chargers are moving

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/sep/09/patriots-cheating-cost-chargers/

Let's all pile on the mound of garbage that the NFL-ESPN unholy alliance has wrought.

Now a San Diego writer is attempting to imply that it is the Patriots fault that the Chargers are moving (guess I missed that announcement), because if it wasn't for those dirty cheatin' scoundrels, Tomlinson would have lead the Chargers to "a ring, maybe two" - and that would have resulted in a new stadium.

This is becoming so laughable I have no words to describe the lunacy.


Okay, I have to admit that I literally laughed out loud at that line. However, I did have to continue in order to figure out if this 'journalist' was serious, or just sarcastic. The same sentence quoted above concludes with the oft-repeated lie about videotaping walk-throughs, but why let facts get in the way of a good story?


After that it's more of the usual. Words like 'smug' and 'arrogance'. That Goodell and Kraft are close buddies (which is so evident in the handling of these two cases, right?) And of course, an obligatory reference to how the Chargers were the better team on paper - therefore, the only way the Patriots could have defeated a team with more star power would be with nefarious means.


What a freakin' joke the state of professional journalism has become.

These tears taste extra glorious

The League long has reeked of arrogance, but here’s hoping the Patriots, so smug, so self-righteous, get their butts handed to them on the Brady appeal. I never will be persuaded any of them are completely innocent. No one will convince me Belichick doesn’t know the location of every paper clip is in that organization.

Did any of this cost the Chargers Super Bowls? Can’t say. The Chargers had superior personal and should have played better, especially in the Divisional game. If they had won one or two, would we even be talking about L.A. or Carson today? I think we’d already have a new stadium.

I don’t know if Tomlinson realized the depth of his statement at the time when he said: “If the Patriots ain’t cheatin’, they ain’t tryin’.”

It appears certain they’ve tried. And this town may have been cheated because of it.

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Boo hoo they have no class. Excuse me while I bawl behind my pitch black tinted visor.

So many crybabies in the AFC. It's crazy.

i live in sd and heard about it at work this morning. had to laugh. who the hell reads the paper ? i'm pretty sure some of these bozos agreed. sd has some of the dumbest fans in the nfl. if it's true all i can say is thank you bill belichick, you did the nfl a favor.

Brady chant in Charger stadium last year lololol.

He's just a sore, pathetic loser. Get over it moron! Your team LOST! Now deal with it

The weird thing is that he lists the 2007 AFCCG as an example.

Uh, that was AFTER Spygate.

The Jets beat the stupid azzed Califraudia Choochers with Mark freakin' Sancheese at QB. There must be some real powerful ecstasy or PCP floating around out there for this mongoloid to write THIS crap.

"I don't have a job with Subway anymore thanks to the Patriots cheating."

@FrodoBagginz Dude, that is a very very creepy picture

Holy hell, this is the best article yet. The comments have a lot of gems too. "Did it feel like EVERY time the Pats needed points during the divisional game they got them? Absoluetly! I am just glad Canepa has the guts to finally put ink behind how I have felt for years." Oh geez gosh golly, the Patriots scored points when they needed them! Must be cheating to score points and win games. Amazing stuff.

For years I always held a little bit of regret in us beating the Chargers in 06 because if we hadn't they without a doubt beat Indy and go on to win the Super Bowl. Manning would still be ringless.

Never mind. F.uck em.

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Holy hell, this is the best article yet. The comments have a lot of gems too. "Did it feel like EVERY time the Pats needed points during the divisional game they got them? Absoluetly! I am just glad Canepa has the guts to finally put ink behind how I have felt for years." Oh geez gosh golly, the Patriots scored points when they needed them! Must be cheating to score points and win games. Amazing stuff.

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This is really a compliment. The Pats can score any time they want at will is what he is saying. But they intentionally held back so the Ravens could get ahead by 14 twice. They only scored so they weren't too far behind. Then they only scored enough just to win by 4 so as to not rub it in to the Ravens.

A true class act by the Patriots.

I lived just north of San Diego for a couple years. Nice city, generally cool people, but the Chargers fans were some of the biggest bandwagon frontrunners I've seen in action. In 2008, you couldn't go 10 steps without seeing a Rivers/Tomlinson/Gates jersey. They literally never stopped talking about how they were the most talented team in the league, which was never really true and only got them to one AFCCG (which they soundly lost).

If their inability to close the deal has played a role in the team probably moving, it's because they couldn't be bothered to show up unless they thought they were favorites to win it all. I was at the SNF game last season. If I had a quarter for every time I heard a Chargers fan complaining that Pats fans had driven up the price of tickets to the game--because, get this: we actually show up to games--I'd have a buck or two.

Nothing against the city, though. It's a cool place. But the damage re: the Chargers is mostly self-inflicted.

Could someone please explain to me how the Patriots cheating included mind control that prevented Chargers defenders from just falling to the ground after an interception?

Also, while you're at it, could you explain how the inferior Chargers beat the superior Colts? Must have been cheating, right?

Whatever makes them sleep at night.

Yesterday there was an article from a Mercury new sports writer, named Purdy, that talked about the ESPN story. No kidding, one of his points was Goodell must go because he took it easy on the Patriots on "Spygate".
What is most interesting about the nonsense of the Purdy article is it not only contained the same easily refuted silliness treated as well established fact, it also referenced the 'excellence of ESPN' just as the San Diego paper story.
Given the ESPN story's obvious errors, given the well accepted dubious nature of 'unnamed sources', given the blatant (you can't miss how blatant it is) water carrying ESPN does, given the dybious timing by the NFL and ESPN, for two separate writers to both highlight this same bologny of 'excellence of ESPN'? Could this be coincidence or is this editorial direction?

Let's assume that the wildly unlikely editorial direction is the reason. What plausible reason would there be for glorifying ESPN for something so easily verified as not worthy of a praise of excellence? These papers could get all the clicks they want from simple Patriot bashing. So again why glorify ESPN in the process? Gee, it almost seems as if there is a powerful media entity out there helping to urge editorial direction