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September 11, 2019

The New England Patriots; the Barack Obama of the NFL

Timothy Birdnow

Dana Mathewson asked me a question:

Is this one of the reasons you hate the NE Patriots? https://sports.yahoo.com/this-is-why-everyone-hates-you-new-england-000844442.html

I replied:

Only partly. I hate them because they are the Barack Obama of football. They can cheat, they can bully, they can get away with murder and the NFL gives them a pass. I don't know if it's because the team has pull with Roger Goodell or it was just a conscious decision to have one team designated "America's Team" like they did with the Dallas Cowboys during the '70's, but it is clear there is a huge bias in their favor. They STOLE the 2002 Superbowl from the St. Louis Rams, and they never really suffered for that. It sticks in my craw. And they play dirty, clutching and grabbing when it suits them. Remember spygate? That was the year they beat the Rams, and they had stolen the Rams playbook and taped their practices. Even with that they couldn't win, so they played a game of thug football, interfering with receivers and making late hits. Marshall Faulk was tackled almost every time he ran a pattern; he couldn't come close to getting open. They just tackled him.

I hate when cheaters prosper. The Patriots are the equivalent of Hillary Clinton, only they win instead of just whine.

Dana continues the thread: Antonio appears to have more baggage than Bill Belichick perhaps knew about. Try this one on for size: https://sports.yahoo.com/report-antonio-brown-accused-of-raping-his-former-trainer-003725076.html

Mr. Nice Guy he ain't! Now, Belichick and Co. appear to have "ways" of handling malcontents. They did a great job with hard-to-handle Randy Moss, so maybe they can turn Brown around.

But I agree overall. The NFL seems to like to establish a "hero" team one way or another. I remember the days when the Dallas Cowboys wore the halo, and I only knew one person who liked 'em, and he was a Texan and could be forgiven (and he was my brother-in-law to boot). Everyone else I knew hated 'em. The only thing the Cowboys had going for them was Tom Landry, the unflappable gentleman coach, who never bawled out a player on the field. The anti-Mike Ditka.

That was in the pre-Goodell days. Now I guess the attitude is "Yeah, they cheat like hell, so you can go ahead and do it too."

BILL H. OBSERVES:

And, like Barack Obama, they preen and strut and act like they think they are some kind of superior being. What makes it worse is that idiots fall for it. They win because opposing teams faint when they come on the field. They complete passes because opposing teams are so terrified that they set their secondary fifteen yards off the line of scrimmage and start backing up when the ball is snapped.

And, like Obama, they place no value on honor, and human decency. They hire players who are murderers, rapists, wife beaters, thieves, prima donnas and players who demoralize the locker rooms of other teams. They bench or fire such players only when the NFL forces them to do so.
Case in point, Antonio Brown. With a lawsuit in court for rape and sexual assault against two trainers, their response is that they will "let the league handle it." That means they will let him play and help them win games until the league forces them to do otherwise.
Kansas City Chiefs in similar circumstances, child abuse, based on accusation when charges had not yet been filed, benched the player before the league did.

Pardon me, in the Chiefs' case it was spousal abuse. The Vikings did the same on child abuse, benching Peterson before the league suspended him.

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1 And, like Barack Obama, they preen and strut and act like they think they are some kind of superior being. What makes it worse is that idiots fall for it. They win because opposing teams faint when they come on the field. They complete passes because opposing teams are so terrified that they set their secondary fifteen yards off the line of scrimmage and start backing up when the ball is snapped.

Posted by: Bill H at September 11, 2019 08:13 AM (vMiSr)

2 And, like Obama, they place no value on honor, and human decency. They hire players who are murderers, rapists, wife beaters, thieves, prima donnas and players who demoralize the locker rooms of other teams. They bench or fire such players only when the NFL forces them to do so.
Case in point, Antonio Brown. With a lawsuit in court for rape and sexual assault against two trainers, their response is that they will "let the league handle it." That means they will let him play and help them win games until the league forces them to do otherwise.
Kansas City Chiefs in similar circumstances, child abuse, based on accusation when charges had not yet been filed, benched the player before the league did.

Posted by: Bill H at September 11, 2019 08:20 AM (vMiSr)

3 Pardon me, in the Chiefs' case it was spousal abuse. The Vikings did the same on child abuse, benching Peterson before the league suspended him.

Posted by: Bill H at September 11, 2019 08:22 AM (vMiSr)

4 NAILED It, Bill!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 11, 2019 12:50 PM (3Y+ie)

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