Effortless superiority, buddy, that's the jolly old ticket!
Anyway, old NEM (I think he's now the late NEM) was as mad as a box of frogs.
He loved the Pats beyond reason. In fact, everything he did was beyond reason and he was repeatedly getting banned, but Ian -- being the incredibly patient and kind man he is -- kept relenting and letting him back in because the Board meant so much to him, until the time he went too far for the last time and even Ian wouldn't let him back. I don't know what that was for, but it must have been something really bad to have even Ian say "enough is enough".
Of course, NEM got into flame wars time and again, but not because he was an internet tough guy who thought provoking people and contradicting them made him a real man (I name no names). It's just that he had no off switch. And once he got an idea into his head it would stay there come what may. His main calling card was that, back in the day (and, remember, this was a time when the Pats won 3 Super Bowls in 4 years) everything that went wrong was the fault of Charlie Weis.
I can't remember everything but I will say one thing that sticks in the memory. In 2005, early in the year, he was all in on the Pats drafting DeMarcus Ware (who played at a small school). Of course, in the months that followed Ware shot up the draft boards and ended up going to Dallas way before the Pats picked. Still, that was one obsession where he was dead right.