Man, I love my football team

[WilliamPitt]

Chris Berman on ESPN's football program calls the Patriots 'The Machine.'

It is a great time to love sports in New England. The Celtics suck so bad they bend light, and the Bruins have basically ceased to exist, but between the Patriots and the Red Sox, it is high times up here.

[jjmalonejr]

1. Go Pats!!!!

There's never been a better decade to be a Patriots fan!

[democracyindanger]

2. I'm torn

On the one hand, I think that NE sports fan deserve every last bit of joy that their recent successes give them, given their long history of sucking and choking.

On the other, it's getting downright annoying. :P

[WilliamPitt]

4. It won't last

The Pats may be dominant for a while longer, but the Sox will go back to being second banana as soon as pitchers and catchers report.

Know what? Don't care. :)

[thoughtanarchist]

3. Go Pats!

I'll toast that with a McGuinnesst

:beer:

[autorank]

5. The snow game with us was fixed! Admit it.

Glad the Pats are doing well. The whole organization is great, particularly the coach.

[WilliamPitt]

6. It wasn't fixed, but it is now

i.e. the crappy rule that cost you the game got fixed.

[autorank]

8. Small consolation.

Actually, there is a long history of fixed games involving any/every loss the Raiders EVER suffered post-season...starting with Mr. Rooney. We are "America's Team" afterall.

I'm glad to see the Pats win year in and year out. They handled their resources well and have a solid deal. We can't say the same. If you guys had some felons on board, it would be perfect.

[hijinx87]

21. the snow game was payback for that crappy roughing

the passer penalty in the playoffs years ago. call it karmic backwash.

[dad]

7. Tom Brady is a Republican who sat by Bush for one of his speeches

F tha patriots GO CRACKALAKA PANTHERS and their French-named QB.
Schilling is a Repuke jackoff too ... I always liked Pedro though, even if the Yankees are his daddy.

[WilliamPitt]

10. Untrue

He isn't a psychotic leftist partisan like the rest of us, and so he did the normal thing and accepted a White House invitation. He was used as the poster boy for getting steroids out of sports. Frankly, I can't think of a better issue to stand up for if you're an athlete, regardless of the assjack at the podium.

[dad]

17. Brady is Bush's boy

This article makes it sounds like Brady has not ever voted, yet he wants to run for president some day:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tombrady1.html
Sounds like a repub...
Tom's big moment on the national stage came via channeling Nancy Reagan, "just say no to steroids".
Sounds republican.
After Tom's last Super Bowl appearance, he blew off an invite to host a Kerry fundraiser saying he had a "scheduling conflict."
Sounds like a republican
http://www.drudgereport.com/matttb.htm

[hijinx87]

23. surely you don't mean to imply . . . .

that democrats favor steroids, do you?

:P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. Not true

like Will said, he was a gracious adult and accepted the invitation. He has been seen hanging with Dems about town.

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. The Sox lifted all our spirits

Human-driven miracles tend to do that. We won't forget it for a long, long time...which is just as well, considering.

And Will, did you invent "suck so bad they bend light"? That is just excellent and unfortunately a valid description of the current Celtics. Thankfully, it is no longer the description of the Red Sox pitching.

Here's to another year and perhaps more miracles, in sports and elsewhere...

:toast:

[WilliamPitt]

11. I think I did

I've seen it used here since, but I claim the patent.

Used it to describe Bush back in 2001.

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. Bush 2001, eh? Appropriate, like a black hole

Crushes all in its grip to utter destruction and emits no light. Too bad you were so accurately prescient.

That's how my mind works at this hour -- so time to say good night.

[BeatleBoot]

12. To gaze into the future...

You can smell it in Detroit...

The Lions will contend next season.

They are a Pride Ready To Pounce...

Just not this season...too early...

(we need someone who can snap the ball on an extra point)

[WilliamPitt]

14. Corey Dillon is a fucking stud

[Lefty48197]

15. Remember, your QB cut his teeth right here in SE Michigan

at that one school where they wear the goofy helmets. Name escapes me, but Tom Brady is one class act, and he's a heck of a good QB too.

[WilliamPitt]

16. He was 4th string in 2001

Insane world we live in.

[dad]

18. ha ha

Brady just got punked by the Miami Dolphins!!!

[Forkboy]

19. Yep

How are them Titans doing?

[Baclava]

20. Marsha, Marsha Marsha!

I love those 3-11 Phins!

Marsha got punched in the mouth tonight, much like he did on Halloween. How's that black eye feelin' Marsha?