Now that the final four our set...

[KingPK 0]

Actually, and yes, I know I'm going to catch hell for this, but Brady is the Chris Benoit of the NFL. Isn't flashy, but does what he does and he does it well.

 

There weren't enough "does" in that paragraph, so here's three more.

 

Does

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[Guest sek69]

You know, as much as I'd be rooting for the Steelers anyway, I hope the Pats lose just so I can see the mass suicide on ESPN and ESPN.com. I bet the NFL crew would wear black suits till draft day.

 

The Pats are quickly becoming the Yankees of the NFL with the most dickhole-ish fans. Its a shame because I've always liked the team (Steve Grogan 4 Life, baby!) but once they started winning Super Bowls, their fans became the biggest douchebags in the league.

 

The local paper ran a story about the rematch and what some Pats fans had to say. Now you can make the case they cherry picked the worst ones but still, get a load of these gems:

 

 

Maybe you shouldn't call the Steelers (16-1) a rival just yet, either.

 

"Patriots always beat Pittsburgh," said Moose Coloccia of Saratoga, N.Y., who made the drive here in three hours, though not legally -- the Massachusetts State Police clocked him at 85 mph, but gave him a lesser offense of failure to obey traffic signs ("I told him I was going to the Pats game, and his face lit up"). "So it's not a rivalry."

 

"Yeah," added John Shannon, a Swampscott, Mass., man who crowded around a Hibachi turned into a fireplace and watched the Philadelphia-Minnesota NFC divisional game on a television in the back of Coloccia's SUV. "The other team has to make it a game for it to be a rivalry."

 

That makes me want to find this guy and go Joe Pesci on him. Its one thing to back your team, its another to completely no-sell any game your team loses.

 

 

Even their sportscasters are getting cocky:

 

Then there was Ringgold High School graduate and former Patriots backup quarterback Scott Zolak, an analyst telling his live-television audience on UPN 38 in Boston: "Book your flights to Jacksonville." You know, site of Super Bowl XXXIX.

 

Book those flights, Pats fans. Just don't cry when the airline tells you they aren't refundable.

[KingPK 0]

Hmmm......people telling people to book flights and hotel rooms to the SuperBowl before they get there.....sounds familiar.

 

Every team has fans like that. Doesn't mean everyone is like that. A lot of people I know aren't calling this game either way yet (including yours truly).

 

EDIT:

"Patriots always beat Pittsburgh," said Moose Coloccia of Saratoga, N.Y., who made the drive here in three hours, though not legally -- the Massachusetts State Police clocked him at 85 mph, but gave him a lesser offense of failure to obey traffic signs ("I told him I was going to the Pats game, and his face lit up"). "So it's not a rivalry."

 

Aren't they relatively even lately? I know the Pats won the previous two meetings before this year ('01 Title game and the '02 Opener), but Pittsburgh won that 9-6 game when Bledsoe fumbled and another game in Foxboro with a FG. They really haven't faced each other enough times to really call this a "rivalry" yet.