Comments on: Easterbrook’s tears

By: Lawnguylander

Lawnguylander — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:44:10 +0000

Be mad not sad, Baby Jesus. Embrace Belicheat Derangement Syndrome and get yr hate on with the rest of us. Including Don Shula.

By: Baby Jesus

Baby Jesus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:37:07 +0000

Bill Belichick made me cry.

By: Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere

Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:32:02 +0000

I like the writer’s wicked pissah use of the phrase “NE-based left leaning blogs” when discussing a professional football team. Wins an Academy fucking award for looking everything through a wrong end of a wingnut telescope, which, by the way, is either end.

Is mndean Vinatieri wearing men’s clothes for a change ?

By: mndean

mndean — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:01:08 +0000

I claimed Pats fans were whining, not the team. If you want evidence, there are plenty of NE-based left-leaning blogs out there that give out weekly “See! We Won! Big! Without Cheating!!!” whinefests where they cry about the terrible, jealous outsiders who can’t understand how Great, True, Pure, and Clean the Pats are. After the damn coach gets caught cheating. For those who claim the wins prove that Belichick couldn’t have cheated, you don’t understand sports (hell, LIFE) enough to leave your front door and enter the real world. Every sports team looks for an edge – some do it clean, some do it dirty. Your team just did it dirty and got caught. Get over it, don’t expect a break from anyone and ferchrissakes, suck it up, apologize to the rest of the NFL, and have some damn dignity for a change. BTW, Sadly, No is hardly the worst of the offenders in this regard (cf. The Poor Man; Lawyers, Guns, and Money), and in fact the whining is quite mild here.

By: Dhalgren

Dhalgren — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:55:57 +0000

I can’t forget to send a Christmas caahd to Moe Lewis. He staahted all of this in 2001.

By: Dhalgren

Dhalgren — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:52:02 +0000

By the way, were the refs trying to give that game to the Colts? That offensive pass interference call against Randy Moss was perhaps the most phantom call of the season thus far.

Didn’t stop The Impregnator…..Tom Brady.

By: Dhalgren

Dhalgren — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:50:01 +0000

It’s so good to be hated.

Gee whiz. The Yankees win 26 MLB titles. The Red Sox win titles 6 and 7, and suddenly they are ‘bullies.’

The Jets have just one Lombardi trophy in their case. Then the Pats come along and put 3 or 4 in their case, and suddenly they are the Third Reich.

It’s really sweet. We will never see New England professional sports hyped as big and bad like this ever again.

By: Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere

Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:28:01 +0000

Last resort of the wicked looosahs:

your coach is a big meanie face

By: HumboldtBlue

HumboldtBlue — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:24:50 +0000

Belichick is still a cheater, no matter how silly Easterbrook is. Belichick comes across as an asshole, that’s it, just another asshole.

Now that he’s been caught cheating, that makes him a cheating asshole.

Throw in Rodney Harrison, and you have a cheating asshole coaching a drug-taking cheating asshole.

But damn, forcing two fumbles in the last eight minutes? Priceless, unless you’re as classless as Belichick was following the game.

Don’t take too much time shaking the opposing coach’s hand there Bill, we wouldn’t want to mistake you with being a human being.

Just got back to illegally taping the opposing sideline, we’ll still consider you a genius. An asshole genius, but a genius none the less.

By: Jay B.

Jay B. — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:45:55 +0000

A lot of us actually don’t mind Boston’s sports pre-eminence nearly as much as you think.

Previous quote: “Yep, you’re a New England sports fan. At the very apex of the sporting world, and what’s your first thought? “What do I whine about?”

Seriously, it’s pathological. You not only whine about Boston fans louder than anyone in history, you’re laughably hypocritical about it. You’re the same guy who didn’t think Game Six in 1986 was even slightly out-of-the-ordinary in terms of either the Mets comeback or the Sox collapse and was barely worthy as a subject.

When I say the “refs sucked” it’s not to indulge in pity or bemoan the fates, it’s to agree with a previous commenter that the refs sucked. Sports fans often take note of such things — something that New Englanders do as well. Christ, some Royals fan mentioned Don Dekkinger last week and Cards fan HTML Mencken had a meltdown — despite the fact that the Cards won it all in 2006. This is something everyone does.

So right. You don’t mind as much as I think, you just seem to whine about it endlessly.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:26:12 +0000

I am sad to confess that pretty much my exact thought upon the end of the game was “At least Easterbrook will cry.”

By: Me

Me — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:47:20 +0000

Where is the self-pity you so bemoan over and over and over again? The refs sucked.

See? You can’t help yourself.

A lot of us actually don’t mind Boston’s sports pre-eminence nearly as much as you think. That’s just your persecution complex at work. I can think of a half-dozen cities off the top of my head that would be infinitely more annoying if they were having the kind of year you are.

But nobody plays the victim like Boston Fan. Nobody.

By: Jay B.

Jay B. — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:28:09 +0000

The whiny hate of the haters is hilarious.

What Pats fan is whining? Where is the self-pity you so bemoan over and over and over again? The refs sucked. The Pats won. Bradrocket said the Colts played a hell of a game and Brady pulled this one out.

And Indy could have another million people and still be a podunk burg.

By: Bloix

Bloix — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:05:42 +0000

Small cities? The pop of Indianapolis is 795,000. Boston, 596,000.
As for metropolitan areas, Indianapolis is 2 million, Boston 4 million – so yeah, the Boston area is twice as large. But Indianapolis is not a small city any more.

By: IMH!

IMH! — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:17:29 +0000

AFC, who gives a shit. Lions 6-2 baby!

I want to be happy about that, but honestly, I’m waitin’ for the other sho to drop…

By: Incontinentia Buttocks

Incontinentia Buttocks — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:51:47 +0000

Yeah, yeah…I know about Easterbrook and his “argument.”

I also live up the road from from Dallas (pop. 1,232,940) and have relatives in Northampton, Mass. (pop. 28,978), and I’d take the values of small-town NoHo over the big city Dallas Metroplex any day.

As Mary McCarthy once said, somewhat unfairly, of Lillian Hellman, every word Easterbrook writes is a lie, including “and” and “the.”

By: NobodySpecial

NobodySpecial — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:14:05 +0000

AFC, who gives a shit. Lions 6-2 baby!

By: cokane

cokane — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:40:27 +0000

easterbrook is pretty obnoxious. I read his last TMQ and he really needs to stop talking about science. He sounds so narrow minded and always focused on some “we need to turn a buck on this” bullshit it’s like a Colbert parody

By: D. Aristophanes

D. Aristophanes — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:57:36 +0000

But why is Belicheat so angry all the time? Man, I’d rather be one of Andy Reid’s kids than his … and, yes, that means I’d rather transport crack vials into prison up my ass than have Mean Bill to come home to …

By: Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere

Ricky Fuckin Reardon from Revere — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:51:05 +0000

Incontinentia: Easterbrook made a specific argument that the Colts were better because they represent small town values.

Population of Foxborough, Mass., home of the New England Patriots: 16,246.