It's the Saturday before the Superbowl. All of the tired story lines are being put to bed and everyone is now exhausted and just ready to get this game going. Ex-players and current players seem to be picking the Giants a lot more than the media members are, which is not surprising because they're awful at analyzing other teams.
But just before the game gets under way, there is a giant wet blanket set to drop on the Patriots' instead of confetti if they win tomorrow. You can be certain that ESPN editors will be setting half its writers on the "winning the Superbowl" plot line, while the other half will be spending even more hours on the new angle of SpyGate that has been opened with the tapioca-eating Senator from Pennsylvania (a member of the Warren Commission who certainly knows about covering things up).
A month from now there will finally be enough pressure on former Patriots' video assistant Matt Walsh (heretofore referred to as Benedict Arnold) to provide whatever evidence he has of taping the Rams' walkthrough in Superbowl XXXVI and whatever else he can talk about.
If taping the Jets in week 1 was the start of a moral outrage and asterisk campaign, how do you think this will end?
The good news? The World Champion Red Sox will be in training camp by the time that happens.
But for now, I'm putting this out of my mind, will certainly ignore Joe Buck's 50 references to it tomorrow, and will enjoy the game. After that, this Evil Patriots Blog will grow more powerful than you can possibly imagine...because it looks like we'll be able to make it relevant during the entire off season.
I was initially disappointed in this whole thing from yesterday...now I'm embracing it and riding the big "eff you" all the way to another Superbowl win.
In an ideal world, NFL Films would capture Tom Brady at the end of the tunnel turning to his teammates and yelling "You tell them I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!" as he runs out leading his team into the lion's den of hatred and vitriol.
So embrace your inner Evil Patriot and root for the dynasty tomorrow to take everyone down with them....
Saturday, February 2, 2008
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Matt Walsh was fired BEFORE the Rams Superbowl.
Nice try.
You could at least get one fact right.
You're right it wasn't him, it was someone else on the video staff. And that's an unsubstantiated story anyway. The point I was making is still valid of course.
But you win, I got that wrong. I'll make sure to turn in my blogging credentials with the National Board of Blogging Ethics on Monday.
I did say the Superbowl is tomorrow, so there's a correct fact for you.
Hey John,
I just wanted to congratulate you on this most excellent blog. It's been an amusing (and often insightful) counterpoint to a very critical season of dog fighting between the Boston and New York media machines. Do a Google search, and you'll find a dozen articles on the Pats being the greatest ever, and then another dozen (or more) about spy gate and the cheating Pats. The extremes are ridiculous. This is football, not religion people. At least you have the good sense to embrace the ridiculous, turn it on its head, and expose it for everyone to see.
Reading your blog reminds me that these media camps are missing the whole point a team plays. And it sure ain't to be the good guys OR the bad guys. As Al Davis was noted for saying, "Just Win, Baby!"
And I tell you, in that ideal world you mentioned, if Tom Brady came out of the gate flipping the bird to the critics, and roaring that battle cry, I wouldn't blame him either. At times it felt like the only people that wanted to play and talk about the game of football, were those classless, underhanded, evil Pats. I wish we had more teams like them.
According to the Providence Journal and The Boston Herald, Matt walsh is the name of the employee involved in the alleged taping of the Rams practice. They say he was fired in 2003.
Nice blog John. Thanks.
BTW - everyone boycott the Bostonherald - don't Buy it
after their sensationalizing stories - about a half step above perezhilton they don't deserve readership
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Goodell said this morning "Every team has been stealing signs..."
Thanks everyone that posted, I really appreciate you all getting something out of it. I was hoping that this would take a different route to cover the Patriots, so I'm glad it's done that. And thanks for the vindication on the Matt Walsh thing Mac, I just took that one guy's word for it that he heard it somewhere.
I listened to the Mike & Mike show this morning and heard both Arlen Specter and Roger Goodell. Arlen Specter isn't even trying to hide the fact that he's only in this because he's a die-hard Eagles fan. Goodell of course is firmly on the side of "every team has been stealing signs" which is good. The media seems to be split down the middle on this. Not even ex-players can agree on it.
Only 7 hours to go before we can actually enjoy some football!
After watching the fox pre-Game show, I'm pretty sure Terry Bradshaw has a man-crush on Tom Brady. It made me a little uncomfortable.
It never really crossed my mind that this would happen. Giants deserved to win.
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