If you're gonna say this type of crap, you can't whine when the Jints fans say it.
I guess my point boils down to good sportsmanship and respecting the other fans, especially the ATL fans who got their hearts ripped out, by not taunting their hurt feelings afterwards; as Pats fans we've been through things quite similar and we should know better.
I don't know what your team is, Richard. But I have that conversation regarding both Gintz SBs, regarding camera-placement-gate, and most recently regarding the world's most blatant witch-hunt, defamegate.
I went to physical therapy, wore a Patriots jersey, and had the young lady in reception tell me how "they're cheaters." First I asked her if she could define the terms in PV=nRT. I then patiently explained to her alllll about cold wet footballs, gauges that were out of calibration and flip-flopped via footnote in the Wells report, and a raft of other ****, because I just wasn't in the mood. And that's with a team that, at the time, had just won ANOTHER Super Bowl.
Boo freaking hoo. The Pats lose the best TE in the league, maybe in history, and we're
expected to have Marty Bennett or somebody of that caliber to fill it in. Any other team...? "Oh yeah of course you beat us, with our star running back out."
The Pats come within a minute of what was generally agreed would never happen - a 19-0 season - and it's really funny because we lost the big one.
Next time I went to PT, had the same jersey on. Yes I washed it in between. Same young lady said "they're still cheaters."
To get this next part you have to understand something about the PT I was doing. There are these things called nerve glides, and one looks just like a cop holding out his hand, palm-first, to command you to stop (in traffic).
I did that and said "Talk to the glide."
So yeah, tell me all about fuggin good sportsmanship. I don't have anything personal against Falcons fans, they just couldn't rise all the way up. By saying this I do not mean to imply that this is a general condition for Falcons fans, particularly in the bedroom.
By saying that their tears taste sweet I certainly do not intend that any given Falcons fan should weep more of them, although I do not mind. I hurt pretty bad - inexplicably, since I don't play for the Pats - after that helmet-catch SB.
There's a difference between "How would you feel if..." and "How did you feel when..."
So when I say, Hey Falcons fans, show us on the doll where the Patriots hurt you, you'll need to take into account for the cycle of abuse. We're subject to "Bad sportsmanship" when we're the greatest dynasty in the history of the league. I
never saw a single analyst on the various NFL* networks, on bulletin boards, or anywhere else, saying "oh my that's bad sportsmanship."
I doubt when I say "we" that includes you, Mr. GoodSport. Otherwise you'd get this history. But maybe you just want to be the most agreeable fanbase in the universe.
I see no problem with subjecting the Falcons fanbase to such things, over on a Patriots board, when any Falcons fans here are crashing the party.
They deserve to have that 28-3 comeback hanging over them. If their team rises to the challenge, they've done one-fifth of what the Patriots have done in the last 15 years. If they can't, they're a mentally weak team to match their mentally crushed fanbase.
I thank GOD that when the Patriots are down -- and we have been down, especially during those roughly 1/2 of Super Bowls that the Patriots did not play in since 2001 -- our team never SAYS "rise up." They say "get to work."
Get to work, Atlanta. You've collected the talent. Do you have a team?
We do.
Otherwise, show us on the doll where the Patriots hurt you.
