Feb 03 2008
Let’s Just Get This Over With
I have never looked forward to a Super Bowl less in my life than I have today. No, I don’t believe it has anything to do with the new direction of this blog and my budding interest in other forms of football. In fact, I think I know what it is:
I am sick and damn tired of the New England Patriots.
Seriously, I’ve been hearing 19-0 talk since the Pats traded away that 4th-round pick for Randy Moss, and it’s just been building and building ever since. They are the juggernaut. They cannot be stopped. (Oh, and they might be watching you.) And here they are in Super Bowl XLII, ready to seal their place in history…
Blah blah blah. I’m sick of these bastards. Can we move on, please?
Juggernauts are more interesting when they have foils. At least the Premier League has the decency to give us four juggernauts, and there’s a chance that one of them is crashing spectacularly. That is interesting. This is not — not to me, anyway. In fact, it’s not even that interesting to the good people of Phoenix.
More proof that the Super Bowl sucks the life out of anything fun in football: The Patriots have a chance to pull off the biggest story in the NFL in 25 years, and we honestly have a difficult finding anybody around Phoenix talking about the game. In fact, they’re mostly just talking about how no one’s talking about the game.
That’s what you’ve done to us, Patriots. You’ve made us all care less than we should about America’s biggest football game. So let’s just get this bloody coronation over with and move on to the next story. Maybe along the way, we can make fun of Robert Kraft’s other New England football team:
I wish the Sons of Ben were in Phoenix today — y’know, just in case — but they’re probably celebrating a certain URL registration this weekend. I wonder if any of them are rooting for the Giants today.
Anyway, yeah. 19-0 could happen today. Mercury Morris might be sad. Woo. Let’s just get this over with and move on.
5 Responses to “Let’s Just Get This Over With”
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Looking on the bright side: if the Patriots win, it’s going to be unbelievably nice not to have to hear about the ‘72 Dolphins and their f****** champagne celebration for five straight weeks every year just because the Broncos managed to go 6-0.
And somehow I don’t get the feeling that these Patriots are going to follow up with an equally annoying tradition 20 years from now. They’ll be too busy ruthlessly trading commodities or something. Looking annoyed when anyone asks them about their time in the NFL.
I remembered that comment with sorrow and confusion during the 30-second slow-motion run through the ‘72 Dolphins roster that Fox broke out after New York took the lead for the last time.
Wait…you mean I sat through that game, tried my best to get excited during that ugly, I mean thrilling, fourth quarter, endured 250 shots of Zen/Sad Brady making puppy-dog eyes at the field after a stalled drive, and I still have to hear about the ‘72 Dolphins for the rest of my life?
Heh - I loved the 4th quarter, and have to admit, kinda liked seeing Brady leave the field after losing a Super Bowl. You don’t get to see that with dynasties - the Patriots are the first Super Bowl dynasty to lose during their “reign”, so to speak.
And yes, it is going to be annoying to hear about the ‘72 Dolphins and their champaign every year for a while longer. But if the Pats won, we’d hear about Spygate every time the Broncos went 6-0. With those two contrasts in mind, give me champaign, please.
I just wanted to comment on how the arrogant,classless, cheating Bill Belicheck left the field before the final gun had sounded. Is there anyone in this country other than Patriots fans that buy into him. After getting caught cheating earlier in the year and then now they’re rumored to of been doing this as far back as 2001 or later. I hope the NFL handles the Patriots the way Major League Baseball is dealing with steroids. I have no doubt in my mind that they have been cheating for years and I hope Bellicheck is banned from football like Pete Rose is from baseball. After losing in the biggest stage in the world, I think it’s of entirely poor taste that coach Sore Loser couldn’t remain on the field and congratulate the Giants. I am not a Giants fan myself but 99% of America is celebrating a great victory over a classless franchise. Again Thank You Giants!!!!
Does anyone outside of the New England area care about the Pats?
I didn’t think so.