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The New England Patriots: Make America Great Again
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/the-new-england-patriots-make-america-great-again-20151012#ixzz3oO8va5bl
The New England Patriots: Make America Great Again
I mean, this is not exactly a news flash. I am not the first person to note this, and I won't be the last. And that obvious truth is going to come flooding into play this week, in part because the 2015 Patriots have already begun to shatter the 2007 Patriots' records, and in part because the Patriots play the Colts next weekend, who happen to be the team that inspired the entire "Deflategate" narrative during last year's AFC Championship game. And again, I realize these comparisons are completely unfounded this early in the season, but do you remember back in 2007, when the Patriots began obliterating their opponents in the wake of "Spygate?" There is an obvious similarity here, at least in terms of the nature of the way the Patriots approach the task at hand: If, in 2007, the Patriots were the Eff-You team of the decade, brilliantly talented and nearly unstoppable on offense and annoyed as hell at everyone (and honestly, read the first few paragraphs of that Bill Simmons column I just linked to and tell me it couldn't have been written yesterday), in 2015, these are the "I Don't Give a F***" Patriots.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/the-new-england-patriots-make-america-great-again-20151012#ixzz3oO8va5bl