Our turn: Deadspin ranks on Pats, fans

[Oswlek]

They got the media and fans pretty much dead on. I might have laughed, but I just learned that no one here has a sense of humor. :confused2:

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I liked this bit from well down the piece (in the "emails" from readers part of the column). Overstated, sure, but not a totally untrue statement about some fans in 2008 :

What people have conveniently forgotten is that, after Matt Cassel lead the team to a surprising 11-5 campaign in 2008 when Brady went down in Week One, there was a large portion of the fan base that wanted to trade Tom Brady and keep Cassel because Brady lost his clutchiness and no longer possessed the Dustin Welker Gritty McScrapitude quality that all the Boston greats possess. Also, he was too Hollywood because of his relationship with Giselle. So yeah, kick the bum out. And replace him with Matt Cassell. This is why us Boston sports fans should not be allowed to have nice things; because the second we find the slightest defect in whatever it is we have, we insist on getting rid of it for the newer, grittier, and almost always ****tier version. I promise you, you won’t be able to find one of these people now, but they existed and there were a lot of them. We are the worst.

 

[Uncle Rico]

I liked this bit from well down the piece (in the "emails" from readers part of the column). Overstated, sure, but not a totally untrue statement about some fans in 2008 :

I'd swear the writer reads this board. A lot.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

You know there is some truth in his take on the Pats fans. Especially those goobers who actually wanted Cassell.

I remember those threads, but there were a lot more of us making fun of the goobers in those threads than there were goobers believing crap like that.

Talk radio may be a different story, but on this forum the Cassel-goobers were given treatment similar to the Tebow lovers in the last month.

 

[Fixit]

I remember those threads, but there were a lot more of us making fun of the goobers in those threads than there were goobers believing crap like that.

Talk radio may be a different story, but on this forum the Cassel-goobers were given treatment similar to the Tebow lovers in the last month.

To be fair, the Tebow-lovers were just hopeful. The Brady-traders were insane.

 

[Mike the Brit]

Three direct hits below the waterline:

• MILF-hunting sociopath Bill Belichick, who makes draft choices like a music snob who intentionally chooses the most obscure bands possible for his year end top-10 list. I honestly think Belichick is bored with the idea of winning Super Bowls. I think he takes much more pleasure out of running a tight-end quick kick on third down and seeing if it works. It's like when you win a video game and you decide to go back searching for hidden levels, not actually giving a **** about winning the game itself again.

• Tom Brady. A new season means new hair! This season's hairstyle is ... (spins wheel) ... the Retired Marine! Sharp look. Tom Brady is a living mannequin.

• Vince Wilfork is a potential HOFer and there is no doubt that Edelman's jersey outsells Wilfork's 10-to-1.

Pretty funny,

 

[ausbacker]

I didn't find it particularly funny. Deadspin is capable of better.

 

[goheels22002]

Three direct hits below the waterline:

• MILF-hunting sociopath Bill Belichick, who makes draft choices like a music snob who intentionally chooses the most obscure bands possible for his year end top-10 list. I honestly think Belichick is bored with the idea of winning Super Bowls. I think he takes much more pleasure out of running a tight-end quick kick on third down and seeing if it works. It's like when you win a video game and you decide to go back searching for hidden levels, not actually giving a **** about winning the game itself again.

• Tom Brady. A new season means new hair! This season's hairstyle is ... (spins wheel) ... the Retired Marine! Sharp look. Tom Brady is a living mannequin.

• Vince Wilfork is a potential HOFer and there is no doubt that Edelman's jersey outsells Wilfork's 10-to-1.

Pretty funny,

The best he can do with Brady is to criticize his hair? Who wrote this? Joan Rivers?

Making up a stat like Edelman's jersey outsells Wilforks is... what is that about?

I'm glad his best day of the year is when the Patriots get knocked out. It means he has to wait until January, or never.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Making up a stat like Edelman's jersey outsells Wilforks is... what is that about?

Well, if Wilfork had returned a punt for a TD. . . .

 

[JDot]

• MILF-hunting sociopath Bill Belichick, who makes draft choices like a music snob who intentionally chooses the most obscure bands possible for his year end top-10 list.

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  This made me literally laugh out loud.

 

[Jackson 2]

I'd swear the writer reads this board. A lot.

My thought, exactly. Hilarious!

 

[Spiral]

Eff us if we can't take a joke. I thought it was funny.

 

[BigMike]

The 15 worst Patriots ever:

1. Hernandez

2. Reche Caldwell. He had Crohn's disease, right? Nothing else explains the eyes.

3. Laurence Maroney

4. Jim Nantz (Now this one is funny)

5. Bill Simmons. Quick everyone! I'm having a playful argument with the Grantland staff about Coldplay! DON'T YOU WISH YOU WORKED IN OUR OFFICE?!!

6. J.R. Redmond

7. Andy Katzenmoyer

8. Ocho

9. Hart Lee Dykes

10. El presidente

11. Kenneth Sims

12. Eugene Chung

13. Tom Hodson. Patriots fans have gotten to enjoy the long, full career of one of the game's greatest QBs, and yet they will still ***** to you about how they had to watch scrap like Tom Hodson back in the day. I SURVIVED THE ZOLAK ERAHHHHH!

14. Bob Ryan

15. Dan Shaughnessy. **** him in the hair.

 

[Bella*chick]

Crohn's disease? Or do you mean Graves disease? That is hyperthyroidism and one of the symptoms is definitely bulging eyes.