It's Better to be Michael Corleone than Fredo (Patriots Related)

[Amnorix]

I cannot begin to describe just how perfectly the Sports Guy captures the average Boston sports fan. I found his article today to be pretty terrific. My favorite line wasn't even Pats related:

• I can't believe how terrifying it was to pick the Bears (-8.5) last Sunday, then ride the Rex Grossman Roller Coaster for the next 210 minutes. My father summed it up best: "How do the Bears fans do it? I don't even care who wins this game and he's about to give me a heart attack."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...simmons/070119

I'll post the part about the Pats (including the Michael/Fredo comment) in the next post.

[Otter]

That was a good article, I like the Pats and admire them. Salute'

Takes some calones to write an article comparing any Boston Team to the Yankees.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

I remember as a kid hating the Dolphins, looking with total jealousy at Shula and Marino, Walsh and Montana, etc., and just wishing WE could have the great coach and great quarterback.

I remember growing up, hating the Dolphins too, even though I didn't watch a stitch of football. I just remember my father being angry and upset most of the time about the Patriots. I'd ask what was happening with him; the answer was usually the "Dolphins" so naturally I hated them. The emotional-roller coaster would ruin Sunday dinners. When, I was here in Florida they won the SB which I heard about from some friends and I was just glad they finally won something after all those years growing up listening to my Dad complain about them.

I thought you were from the mid-west, Amn and relocated to NE as an adult.

[Halfcan]

I liked the article, but now I hate it for some reason.

[Halfcan]

I hope the Pats destroy Mangina again!!!

[jynni]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

I hope the Pats destroy Mangina again!!!

Yes, after thinking about it, my ideal scenario is that the Pats stomp on the Colts. I never want to see Manning in the SB. However, the Pats must then go on to get completely destroyed in the SB. I mean blown out eleventy billion to nothing. Hopefully it will be to the Bears since my younger brother said they wouldn't make it far in the post season. If they win the SB (by smashing the Pats) then that makes him wrong, which means I'm right.

[Piper]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

They don't have any self-promoting a-holes doing sack dances or touchdown dances,

Um, wrong

See last week's post-game celebration.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I can appreciate it.

I grew up in North Carolina a HUGE fan of ACC basketball. I rooted hard for UNC, Duke, etc. in the national tournament. I always thought they were the "underdog" teams because they were from the South (and because Dean Smith hadn't won a national championship yet).

Only when I moved away did I realize that most of the country saw Carolina as part of the "elite" and rooted for them to lose.

Except for Jimmy V's run in 1983 with NC State, I have never rooted for an NC team.

"Whittenburg, that's a long way.....!!!111"

Thurl Baily rebounds and jams it through for the winner against Phi Slamma Jamma's Clyde Drexler and Akim Olajuwon.

Still one of my all time favorite sports memories.

No one, I was a senior at the time, and I mean no one, had NC State even keeping that game close. I was saying, I don't know, that team is destined. I got to have EVERYONE eat some crow the next day. Awesome.

[DaKCMan AP]

Duh! Pacino's the man!

[Frazod]

Some thoughts:

1. Yes, I'm sick of the Patriots. In a perfect world, their plane would crash into Yankee Stadium during a Yanks/Red Sox game.

2. And speaking of the Yankees, is it EVER, EVER possible for a Boston sportswriter to write an article about ANY sport that doesn't include whining about the Yankees? Good Lord, GET OVER IT.

3. And yes, to the rest of the country, the Red Sox ARE THE YANKEES, and the Yankees are the Red Sox. I give you the YANKSOX, and fuck 'em all right in the ass with a big rubber dick. One big, nasty mass of arrogance and greed that steals all our best players and ruins the fucking game. It's all the same to us. When you (and by YOU and mean BOTH OF YOU, all of Yanksox Nation) fail, it's a victory for decency and goodness. The last two World Series have featured Middle America teams that no one outside of Detroit, Houston, St. Louis and the south side of Chicago give a shit about, and THAT'S GREAT. Boston, New York, Fox and ESPN are shitting themselves over the prospect of yet another WS without Yanksox, but personally I hope the next one is the Brewers versus the Rangers, or perhaps the Royals versus the Reds. Anything that fucks up the Yanksox works for me.

4. But the one thing that REALLY PISSES ME OFF is that I have to root for the goddamn Patriots, because as much as I'm sick of them, I don't quite hate them completely, at least not yet, and I do hate that lumpy-faced commercial pimp Manning. I don't think it matters that he's not a Bronco anymore - he just needs to DIE.