Re: Time for Pats fans to embrace the hate: From Luke Skywalker to Darth Vader in 6 y
I see it more like turning something very negative into something positive.It's not really about Crapgate itself...the Pats and especially BB were becoming resented long before then. All the stuff about BB's private life, Brady's private life,rumors of BB and Pioli going to the Giants, the timing of the Asante story... ALL that stuff wasn't born out out of anything but the desire to bring down a winner. Spygate was just icing on the cake.
If the Patriots weren't who they are, nobody would care who BB or Brady dated, or what a player's tatoo said, or even the fact they taped signals from an illegal location.They're getting all this because they win.
Embrace The Hate= embrace a team who not only wins, but one that matters enough to inspire all this. It also says I'm still proud to be a Pats fan, and I won't run from the hate. People really are obsessed with them too-love them or hate them, everyone still watches. They'll always be news, I think.