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18 More Reasons to Hate the Patriots
Written by Demond Sanders   
Thursday, 12 November 2009 08:39

Because 88 just aren't enough

1.  The Tom Brady Rule.  It figures that a rule named after Tom Brady would serve to further emasculate football.

2.  Junior Seau is back again?  Didn't I just see him on a reality TV show?

3.  They've turned Randy Moss into a sure-fire first ballot Hall of Famer.  Do you really think the world is a better place because of that?

4.  Because despite an on going history of lackluster drafts, Belichick continues to be seen as a master of draft strategy.  Raping the Raiders on a regular basis doesn't qualify you as a genius...just as an honorary member of the AFC West.

5.  It's their fault the Wildcat is still around.  If they could have figured out how to stop it the first time, they could have saved all of us a lot of trouble.

6.  Throwing passes with a 59-0 lead.  That's just evil.

7.  The media assumed Joey Galloway was good just because the Patriots signed him.  Seriously, guys?  Joey Galloway?

8. Really?  Signing Fred Taylor?  Now you are just daring us to hate you.

9.  Matt Cassel confirmed our long-held suspicions. And yet the media acts as if 2008 never happened.

10.  I liked ESPNBoston.com better when it went by its original name: ESPN.com.

11.  After years of ridiculous taunts directed towards Manning we are supposed to have a begrudging respect for Brady? Not going to happen. Not ever.

12.  I can’t root for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a team I genuinely like, until Charlie Weis is forced out in disgrace.

13.  Tom Brady has way more in common with A-Rod than Manning ever will.

14.  Wes Welker.  I hate guys named Wes.  He should just play the game with a cardigan draped over his shoulders and be done with it.  Sometimes I root against Texas Tech just because he went there.

15.  Tom Brady and Randy Moss still playing "500" with 20 seconds to go in the Super Bowl.  Learn to throw an out-route, Tom!

16. This is really messed up: I wanted the Pats to make the playoffs last year.

17.  DZ’s secret G-chat friendship with our resident Pats fan, JC. For that matter: the fact that our website has a resident Pats fan.

 

18.  I don’t feel anything right now towards them. That scares me.


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Good, as usual
written by Doug England, November 13, 2009
10 and 14 were my favorites.
fun
written by Bob M, November 13, 2009
All good, but #10 may be my favorite. Like the members of the Boston area media don't have enough national outlets--they need one with a national platform dedicated just to them. Probably so they could get all those Boston-rooting "Boston guys" out of the main ESPN offices to make more room for all those Boston-rooting "Connecticut guys."

Good Lord.
players on both sides!
written by Nacho from Buenos Aires, November 13, 2009
of course players will respect each other. for them it´s a job. and the rest of the players are colleagues. the suffer the same problems, are exposed to the same injuries, they want to be, but they are not "fans" as we are...

hey, i was just thinking of players (or coaches) who played both for Patriots and Colts... i can´t think of anyone. but i am not such an expert of football history...

In LatinAmerica only SNF and MNF is broadcasted, so during regular season i cannot watch Colts games very often (only when they play MNF and SNF).
So i have a group of teams i "prefer they win" and another group of the i "prefer they lose".
And of course a team i consider a FAN (the colts) and a few teams i totally dislike (hate is too strong!) like Patriots (in first place, by far), Chargers, Cowboys, Ravens and specially Steelers. I decided that my NFL team was going to be Indianapolis after the 1996 (not sure!) season, when the colts lost the AFC Championship against Pittsburgh, with the game finishing with a hail-mary pass from Harbaugh. I wanted the colts to win that day badly, so from that day steelers are in the list of "very disliked" teams.

regards!


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written by DZ, November 13, 2009
The big one is Adam Vinatieiri. There have been a handful of others, but not many. Dan Klecko and Damon Huard come to mind...
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written by Nacho from Buenos Aires, November 13, 2009
Of course Vinatieri!! Stupid me!... I would like to know what Pats fans think of him after playing and winning a SB in Indianapolis.
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written by Anhero, November 23, 2009
Loved number 1. Seriously....



best comment ever.


Trumps the Mel Blunt rule (that is from like 78') that gets put on Manning's shoulders by morons who don't know history.

Indy Sucks
written by IndySucks, November 29, 2009
Crappy city crappy fans and 1 SB win WOW when can I move there?
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written by DZ, November 29, 2009
I bet it took you all day to come up with that.
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written by Zackasaurus Rex, December 01, 2009
Hey, congratulations on resuming your fanship of Notre Dame. They finally gave Weiss the boot... a couple seasons too late.
Weiss's next career move
written by Bob M, December 09, 2009
I think ND just told Weiss thre was no more free lunch, literally, at the campus cafeterias and he said "I'm gone."

Now he and Mark Mangino will team up in their own Madden Cruiser (with beefed up suspension) to cross the country for their own reality TV show called Training Table, in which they stop at literally every HS and college football team in the land, hang out to BS about football for a couple free, copious t-table meals, and then move on.
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written by Dave H, December 09, 2009
Awesome list, I am glad 18to88 is still bearing the Patriots Hating torch. Hopefully now it's proven that they cannot win in the postseason without cheating.

Stick a fahkin fork in these guys!

PS Welker is the WORST!!!
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written by your favorite dolphins fan, January 01, 2010
I just found my first reason to hate the Indianapolis Colts.

They play by different set of rules than everybody else in the league, you can't breathe on their receivers without a flag, but their DBs can grab and claw without penalty
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written by DZ, January 01, 2010
lol. You are a clown, dude.
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written by your favorite dolphins fan, January 01, 2010
I wish I was clowning, but that's the truth.
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written by your favorite dolphins fan, January 06, 2010
What were the long-held suspicions Matt Cassell confirmed? And what happened in 2008? I mean, the Dolphins won the division, that was something.
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written by DZ, January 06, 2010
Cassel's 2008 stats after his first game are almost identical to Tom Brady's stats from 2001-2006. I did a whole series of articles on it last year.

The Pats won 11 games with Cassel, enough to make the playoffs and even win the division in almost any other year.

They only won 10 this year, and won the division. It wasn't Cassel's fault the Dolphins got a crazy easy schedule in 2008.
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written by your favorite dolphins fan, January 06, 2010
Brady threw 50 TDs and won 16 games with Cassel's supporting cast in 2007.

In 2008, Cassel took virtually the same team and they won 11 games and he had far fewer TDs.

Then, Cassel left for KC and with weaponry similar to Brady's from 2001-2006, was pretty poor.

The Dolphins schedule in 2008, obviously, was
nearly identical to the Patriots one. The only two games that were different were the AFC south and north games. Both teams lost both of those games.

BTW, thanks for some rational discussions. It's nice to be able to talk football without throwing insults, which is common over the football internet forums.
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written by DZ, January 06, 2010
1. I would debate that it was the same supporting cast. It was a similar one, but there had been some changes. Cassel also didn't have the benefit of working the whole preseason with those players. As for the 11 wins, the defense already had begun to erode. That was as responsible for the drop in wins as anything. When Cassel went to KC he went to a team devoid of anything. The Pats weren't going to 16-0 the next year, just because the law of regression was going to take over. Most experts only had the Pats at 13-3 before the 08 season. Had Cassel been the starting QB from the go, they probably could have hit that number.

2. Rational discussion? Always welcome here.
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written by diogenes, January 20, 2010
Regarding reason number 14, does that apply only to football players named Wes? Because Wes Unseld was a great center (I believe out of Louisville) for the NBA Bullets many decades ago. A fine human being, too. Had the size and athletic ability to have tried out as a O-lineman or blocking tight end if he'd wanted to do it...

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