NY Times: The Enemy at the Gates of Going Undefeated

[patriotfan32]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/sports/football/15patriots.html?ref=sports

 

[psychoPat]

Re: NY Times:The Enemy at the Gates of Going Undefeated

the Patriots have seemed informed by a fury, as if the underpinning of perfection is vengeance. .... in part to stick a thumb in the eye of the league that sanctioned them.

 

[pats1]

Doesn't she mean "crossed the Rubicon from envied champion to envied champion...made out as a football villain."