Whether you like it or not, the 3 Super Bowl losses as well as spygate and deflategate are part of the team’s legacy. You can’t say “we won 6 super bowls!” and then cover up your ears for the bad stuff. The pats have the most Super Bowl wins and the most Super Bowl losses. It is what it is.
CryGate, DefameGate, & TVProductionCrewWithNothingToDoWithTheTeamGate are all B.S. that are a fake legacy, and an extension of the false laughingstock narrative.
And, although after Goodell spent $100 million+ in court to artificially abort his consecutive starts record and suspend him, Tom had nothing to do with any of that at all.
'bad stuff' means we could, or should, have won twelve Super Bowls. It was self-inflicted, hurt only ourselves and opponents only profited from it.
Dreith was done to us. Not our fault.
The Broncos' 'legacy' is pristine because 'The Patriots damaged the league' Tagliabue slapped them on the wrist and nobody knows or cares about their violating the cap.
Starting Eason, giving C-Mart 11 carries, nobody listening to Junior, Belichick loving the Giants and having his team come out flat as a pancake, eschewing field goals, dropping Brady back to pass fifty times with an ankle sprain when the only thing the Giants did well was rush the passer, failing to make any adjustments against Nick Foles (who?) and again dropping Brady back with plenty of time, all our timeouts plus the two minute warning and the Eagles defense unable to stop us are all championship-eliminating blunders, but getting to the Super Bowl is still a major accomplishment.
Except for the Bills who were only there because Kiam & Pat let Flutie go to Canada.