Re: ESPN's Mike Fish .. WOW .. "Further Indict"
52-7. Really. Now THAT was "serious entertainment".
Go home with your tail tucked to that two bit foosball team that tried to hang with one of the greatest teams of all time. Buh bye now.
Lol. I enjoy the "deflect the truth" strategy that so many of us fans like to use. Honestly it's tough for me to keep supporting this team, faced with all this evidence. I know homers will be homers, and I'm not gonna abandon the team, but you honestly don't think it casts a pall on us as a whole? The spygate thread that has the most posts on it is one attacking a reporter for using a word wrong.. that says something right there. So many of us refuse to acknowledge the damage this does to our reputation, and to our past victories, going on thinking "innocently" that we're still the best straight up team. I've had so many people tell me recently that just two or three years ago, they respected the Pats more than almost any other team, because we were well coached and made great management decisions. Now, those same people can't wait to shove the latest news in my face. And honestly, if I was in their shoes (especially divisonal opponents' fans), I'd do the same thing.
I know you still need to play the game well, but if we can pipe in where blitzes are likely coming from, what type of offensive play to expect, etc. it's obviously going to make an okay player good, and a good player much better.
I think as a whole, our fanbase is just struggling to get through this. Theres a lot of cognitive dissonance surrounding the entire thing, because we simply don't want to admit that what our team did was wrong. I've heard a lot of "everybody does it", "we could've taped from somewhere else", "it doesn't matter much", etc., but the point is that you just can't tape signals the way we did it. Other teams have known about this for years, there's several instances of Pats' employees being kicked out of opposing stadiums for such taping. Goodell finally chose to enforce the rulebook instead of having it be a game of "oh haha i caughted you! get out of my stadium!"
I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed hard for this, but reality hurts, my friends. The sooner you swallow your pride and realize it, the better you can deal with all the crap the world is throwing at us, and the sooner we can move forward with pride once again.
