Pathetic whiners
I’ve said before that Bill Belichick was a cheating slimeball who deserved to be suspended for at least three games and fined the maximum amount of money from the NFL. But the more whining I hear from the super-kewl New York sports media (I’m spending the weekend in Long Island and have been reading all the assorted boo-hoo-hooing from Newsday, the Post and the Daily News), the more I start to agree with The Editors’ position in this matter: in other words, HAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAAA EAT IT NFL, LOL!
Take a look at this heaping pile of garbage from the Post:
Play the game over. The Patriots didn’t beat the Jets fair and square. In other words, the Jets wuz robbed. This strikes at the integrity of the games.
Puh-lease. The Patriots got busted for cheating in the middle of the damn first quarter last week. Even after the Pats’ super-important-they-couldn’t-possibly-succeed-without-it tape was taken away, they managed to slap the Jets silly, 38-14.
Memo to Jets fans: your team is bad. Your new running back, the prized acquisition of your offseason, is averaging 2.9 yards per carry today. As I type this, I see that your defense has allowed Kyle Boller to throw two TD passes. Oh, and your super-awesome back-up quarterback Kellen Clemens just completed a pass for -3 yards to Nick Mangold. Mangold, I needn’t remind you, is your center. I’ve never seen such crappiness exist in such a pure, distilled form. And another thing- if “Mangenius” discovered that Belichick was taping his signals in the first quarter and then made absolutely no effort to switch them up then he simply deserved to lose. This has nothing to do with having your signals taped. It has everything to do with you having a very bad football team.
Also:
Still, cheating against the Jets?
That is officially the gayest thing I’ve ever seen, and I have spent entire days holding marathon Queer as Folk watching sessions with my best friend – who is gay – before going out at night to the bar with him – which was also gay. The bar, that is.
And his chin, whoever he is, looks like a butt.
Xenos- not justifying it. The fact that they were cheating against a team as pathetically, laughably crappy as the Jets only makes it worse. Belichick didn’t need to cheat at all to beat them- the fact that he did only goes to show what an arrogant jerk he is. I’m just sick of the whining.
And Jillian- yes, the video’s astounding gayness is what makes it so awesome.
But that doesn’t explain the butt-chin.
What’s up with that?
Totally Teh Gay!
It doesn’t matter. This year is REDSKIN’S YEAR! OHHRAH! Man, that $500 League Championship bet I made is going to pay off div-i-DENTS. I’ll remember y’all when I’m flying around in my solid gold F-14.
At the risk of sounding redundant (and that’s only because I said it in the last Belichick is a cheater thread, so I guess it IS redundant), Baseball as an entity figured out how to deal with sign stealing a hundred years ago.
Example. They are looking to see where your catcher sets up, and signaling to the batter. Fine. Set up off the plate outside. Throw a high inside fastball. They can signal themselves blue in the face the rest of the game, the hitters are going to ignore them.
Example 2. You think they’re picking up the pitches your catcher is calling. Fine. Use what’s called an indicator. Say the indicator is two fingers. The pitcher ignores the signs until he sees the indicator, and then picks up the next sign. So now, the catcher goes 3,3, 1, 2, 1. Go ahead, start guessing the indicator. ‘Cause it only helps the pitcher when you’re looking changeup and you get the heat. STEEE-RIKE three…
Football needs to grow up a little….
mikey
To spring board off Mikey. The whole concept of the huddle was invented by football players from deaf schools. See, you couldn’t count on the other team being out of earshot, because they could just read your lips. Ergo, form up a human wall to discus your next play.
This whole thing seems blown out of proportion because everyone is sick of the Patriots being the goddamn underdog who wins every years. Not to say they shouldn’t have done it, and deserved to be slapped, but still.
Lions!!! All the way! Kitna is God!
Okay, it’s hard to take seriously, but usually their season is effectively over by now, so I’m going to enjoy it while I can. Try being a Lions fan for 40 years.
Continuing in a Football vein.
SpecOps training has a gimmick they all use. (Stay with me here.) On, say, a fifteen mile run in full ruck, the instructors (in shorts without encumberance) will run along, and on the downhill side will start to say things like “Only five more miles” and finally, “Only one more mile to go!” Of course, at the end they announce that after a five minute break there’s another five mile run back to the barracks. The idea is to strip any complacency out of the participants, make them understand that no matter what THEY think the end will be, you can’t count on EVER being able to rest, eat, relax. You just cannot STOP.
The Raiders won their game today, with a field goal in overtime. Except the Broncos called a time out about one second before the snap, and the field goal didn’t count. Of course SebSki, the party boy, missed the next attempt, and Denver won on the next possession. The Raiders brutal travails are entertaining, in an entirely inhumane way…
mikey
Okay, it’s hard to take seriously, but usually their season is effectively over by now. Try being a Lions fan for 40 years.
Amen brother. Some kid was asking me why I wasn’t more excited about the Leos. I didn’t have the heart to explain it to him.
I’ve said before that Bill Belichick was a cheating slimeball
Someone told me Belichick cheated on his wife with a married woman. Is that true? If so, no wonder he and Brady get along so well.
By the way, thank you so much Bah-ston for beating the Yankees. Detroit might get the wildcard after all )
I’m getting a kick out of hearing the whining from LT, best friend of Balco guineia pig Shawne Merriman.
Mangina and his media can complain all they want, but they’ll still finish in third in the AFC east.
Nah, the wildcard is the Yanks’, but credit where it’s due, the division is won.
Looks like the cameras made Rivers throw an INT on the first play from scrimmage.
Wow, this Belichick fellow sure is messed up!
Man, I’m getting the impression that New York sports teams are to you guys like Liberals are to Republicans. Hate! Hate! Hate!
In NY you root for your team. If they win, you celebrate; If they lose, you wait ’til next year.
Creating a fetish out of a sports team must be a small town thing.
He’s truly a monster.
You want to see hate? We will get it with a Sox-Mets series. Even after 2004 there are some PTSD cases from 1986 walking around New England. Insta-riot: just add beer.
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!
Hopefully our punt returners won’t muff the damn punts this week…
I’ve never seen such crappiness exist in such a pure, distilled form.
You weren’t watching the Steve Young-era Tampa Bay Buccaneers, then.
Or the Testaverde-era Bucs, for that matter.
Or pretty much any Bucs team from 1983 to 1995.
As a damn Eurabain, I don’t understand what the fuss is about, can a team really get so much from videoing the chach and his signs. If the Patriots videdoed form the stands would it have been legal. If this happens regulalrly, couldn’t the Jets (!!!) fake their signals or something. I dont pretend to even know or like the sport, but it does seem a big fuss about nothing.
My Bills are the worst team in the league. That is all.
Again, I refer all of you who should be posting @ any of a million sports sites to this lovely site.
And remind you of Lyndon Johnson, who, when asked if he wanted to take a visiting foreign leader to a college football game, replied that he didn’t think it was a good idea to show said leader our finest young men trying to beat the crap out of each other, as an example of typical American activities. (May be apochryphal.)
Baseball blogging is OK, however.
That said, when the hell will the Raiders win one? Or when will Denver get nuked, Jericho-style? Why couldn’t Al Davis hold onto Randy Moss? And how’d the Pats beat the Chargers so soundly w/o cheating?
This week, the Pats handed out cameras to every single spectator with wireless downloads to the massive Belicheat Cyclotron Purloined Data Centre located underground beneath the field for instant processing and analysis.
Memo to somebody: Foosballu and bassballu are an opiate for guys who can’t admit they’d rather get naked with guys than with women, uh, womyn. South Park is laffing @ U!
the more I start to agree with The Editors’ position in this matter: in other words, HAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAAA EAT IT NFL, LOL!
Face it – everyone outside of Boston now puts an asterisk next to the Patsies Super Bowl “victories”. Just like Barry Bonds.
You’ve either got some well-crafted rose-tinted glasses or some damn fine absinthe. I don’t even follow or care about sports, but I can tell you that the whining and chest thumping from New York is so loud that it sometimes drowns out Boston -which I live in.
The whole “well we don’t really even care anyway, because we are the Greatest City on Earth and are therefore on a different plane than you small-town peasants” is just another vintage of whine pressed from the same old sour grapes. At least “the curse” was clever in the “virgin-birth” sense of being so absurd that it was kinda fun. If you are going to make excuses, go the whole way and invoke the supernatural.
But I will say that Pittsburgh, where I am from, has the worst sports fans by far. They are the only people who I know who will cheer an injury in a game in which the Steelers are not even playing, because one of the teams beat the Steelers last year. Also, visitors at their home games might want to invest in PA license plates or puncture-resistant tires.
My one NY/Boston anecdote: When I lived in NY we went to a Yankees-Something game (Tigers, I think). Yanks won. Ebullient crowd surged toward the exits, and soon the chant arose:
“BOS-TON SUCKS! BOS-TON SUCKS!”
Yes, they hadn’t even played Boston that day, and this is what they were yelling as they left.
Steve ex-pat:
Yes, but try growing up as a Baltimore Colts fan. We’re still waiting for them to come crawling back…
the guy traipsing the sideline with a camera would not have caused the jets to lose last week. he would have caused the jets to lose next time they played the pats. based on goodell’s new demands that the pats turn over all their videos and the notes, it appears new england was building a library of the defensive signals of all the teams they play for future reference.
Wait a minute, Brad. In your first post on the cheating Patriots, you inexplicably lash out at Barry Bonds and Giants fans. Neither of whom had anything to do with Bill Belicheat’s cheating ways.
In that post, you say: “Because I refuse to be like one of those sad homers in San Fran who keeps rooting for Barry Bonds …”
And now you post a desperate defense of Belicheat and the Patsterisks, plus a fanboy video of Tom Brady.
In other words, it took you, what? Four whole days to become “one of those sad homers in San Fran” …?
Weird, huh? Sucks to be on the short end of irrational, jealousy-fueled hatred, doesn’t it?
A guy from Boston putting up a post decrying the provincialism of NYers? Awesome.
Yes, they hadn’t even played Boston that day, and this is what they were yelling as they left.
I’m not doubting you and far be it from me to defend Yankee fans but I attend a lot of Yankee games and have never heard that. I did hear the Yankees suck chant at a B.C. basketball game a few years ago and since then I’ve assumed that it’s mandatory for every public event in New England. Sporting events, PTA meetings, funerals, wherever the fuck.
You want to see hate? We will get it with a Sox-Mets series. Even after 2004 there are some PTSD cases from 1986 walking around New England. Insta-riot: just add beer.
I have to say that there has been a lot of atonement between the Mets and Sox fans. They are united in their hatred of the Yankees. It all began to heal when Clemens nearly hit Piazza between the eyes. The Sox-Mets harmony began then.
If it is a Sox-Mets series, it will be a pretty friendly affair. Lots of Neil Diamond songs will be played on the PA.
I was thinking more like Barbra Streisand.
I was really really really hoping San Diego would kick the Pats asses. ah well. At least Juventus lost.
I have to say that there has been a lot of atonement between the Mets and Sox fans.
Between the fans, sure. But speaking as a BoSox fan of lifetime standing, I still get a small twitch when you say “Bill Buckner.”
Maybe when the NFL hands down a $100 million fine it will be of interest. You haven’t heard of this? Of course not, no Americans were involved. it’s only the biggest sports story of the year worldwide. Nothing important compared to a week 2 Pat-Jets game.
It even has teh satire that’s in ur base killin’ ur satire’s dude’s. It’s in Spanish and ur Americans, so, like, it’s got animation to look at.
You haven’t heard of this? Of course not, no Americans were involved.
Son usted el primer de mencionar este aqui? Tristemente, no! Del ultimo poste de Belicheat (el que fue razonable):
You haven’t heard of this?
as Lawnguy said. Sadly, no; we have indeed. but thanks for playing.
I stand corrected. More importantly, until Gavin, Brad, et al start upping their game with animated satire, we are going to have a dangerous satire gap that will leave us vulnerable to the Godless Spanish wit menace.
In the words of the great Presidential candidate Pat Paulson, “We’re upping our standards, so up yours!”