Media: Patriot Friends & Enemy List

hwc said:

I fast forward through all commericials, sporting event music video/profound essay introductions, bottle blond chick country singer songs about football, video montage tributes to Peyton Manning, TV talking heads, extra point conversions, and kick offs.

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You...you can control time? Do you have a device like in the movie "Click"?

Jackson 2 said:

Chris Collinsworth despises the Patriots. Boomer Esiason despises Belichick. Bayless offers opinions which are fed to him by his network in order to create a conversational scenario each day.

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Agreed. Esiason brings up spygate whenever he can. It was either last year or two years ago, Cowher gave a little speech about what Belichick has accomplished as a coach. Esiason made some snarky comment right after that. A few weeks ago, he was listing off "biggest sports cheaters" on his radio show and mentioned people like Lance Armstrong, Rosie Ruiz, and Barry Bonds and tossed in Belichick's name on the list. Definitely not a "friend" to the Patriots.

shmessy said:

That's because Costas is a baseball guy who sleeps under a Mickey Mantle poster.

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Bob Costas baseball highlight:

JMC00 said:

The only guy from ESPN that I would consider pro-Patriots is Cowherd.

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Colin is actually the only guy I enjoy listening to on ESPN; the herd is great and I watched SN all the time when it was him and Beadle. Pro Patriot loves Brady and BB... haha I am pretty sure he has said in the past he evaluates all QBs relative to Brady. Brady is his gold standard for what a qb should be

SEA_Pat said:

You...you can control time? Do you have a device like in the movie "Click"?

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DVR. I never watch live TV. I wait 30 to 40 minutes so I can skip the commercials. For a Pats game, I try to time it so I catch up to live right near the end of the game.

local friends- Michael Felger, Albert Breer, Ron Borges

james87654 said:

local fiends- Michael Felger, Albert Breer, Ron Borges

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fixed that for you....

Danger Zone said:

I think you've made a mistake, Tunescribe.. that cant be Florio. He looks much too tall.

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I wonder who is shorter -- Florio or Costas. They're equally intolerable.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Shannon Sharpe. He's one of the biggest Patriots haters there is.

aztecafut said:

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Shannon Sharpe. He's one of the biggest Patriots haters there is.

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But he's no longer in broadcasting, I thought. CBS booted his dumb donkey ass.

Tunescribe said:

But he's no longer in broadcasting, I thought. CBS booted his dumb donkey ass.

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I had no idea but that's good to know. I wanted to punch him through my tv everytime I heard him say something about the Patriots. I'm glad he's gone.

Greg Rosenthal at the NFL Network is a Pats fan. BTW- If you are interested in NFL podcasts, the Around the NFL podcast is a good one over at NFL.com

aztecafut said:

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Shannon Sharpe. He's one of the biggest Patriots haters there is.

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Could it simply be that none of us could understand what marbles-in-his-mouth was attempting to say?

Mike Ditka likes Belichick. He and Jimmy Johnson were the first to say Spygate was a non-issue, and that every team is looking to see if they can pick up tells from the opposing team's hand signals during games. Ditka also thinks Tom "they hate their coach" Jackson is a douche.

james87654 said:

local friends- Michael Felger, Albert Breer, Ron Borges

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Shank. Don't forget Shaughnessy. He not only hates the Patriots. He hates football. Shank finds football confusing. So many players. So many variations of where they stand. Some plays start with a kick. Some plays start with a hike. There's a clock involved. They change directions every 15 minutes. Football is scary. It has "sudden death." Shank hides when they call "illegal use of the hands" beacause he thinks his parole officer is going to break down his door and haul him back into court.

Shank likes baseball. The players stand in the same spot every play. They always run counter clockwise. Everyone stays warm because they get to wear a glove and a hat. There's no clock to put pressure on anybody. Best of all there are "Ball Boys."

Mike Mayock = +

Pat Kirwan = +

Shmessy. The Globe employed Reiss and Bedard and sacked Borges. Another Boston paper employed Tomase and now employs Borges. Not saying that I like The Globe, but they are not the only enemy.

Michael Silver hates the Pats, but is actually good friends with "Tommy" Brady.

Other media people who like the Pats: Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Rodney Harrison, Tedy Bruschi, Heath Evans, Don Banks, Peter King (yes, he hated them during Spygate, but overall he is a fan), Colin Cowherd, Pat Kirwin, Pete Prisco, Adam Schefter, Mike Mayock, Greg Bedard

Other media people who hate the Pats are: Dan Dumbledorf, Mike Freeman, Rich Gannon, Dan Marino, Mike Greenberg, Jason Cole, Cris Carter, Tom Jackson

As for Florio, he is smart in that he straddles both sides of the fence on the Pats. He will post a pro Patriots article one second and then take swipes at them in an anti-Patriots post the next to get both Pats fans and haters to come to his site and accuse him of being a Patriots hater or homer.

JMC00 said:

The only guy from ESPN that I would consider pro-Patriots is Cowherd.

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I think a large amount of the ESPN analysts hate the Pats, but Skip Bayliss is hugely pro Pats. And I am pretty sure that Tedy Bruschi and Heath Evans have a little bit of a warm spot for the Pats.

Has anyone mentioned Steve Young? It seems like when he is talking about the Patriots someone has a gun to his head. Like, he really wants to say something but he cant.

Keyshawn Johnson - big Patriots supporter.

I don't get why people think Boomer Easiason is an enemy. Yeah, he made Spygate reference last year towards Belichick's legacy, but the guy is a pretty big Patriots homer always picking them to go to the Super Bowl. I think this year is the fourth year running.