NFL Playoff Thread

Oh, here we go.

Time to pretend the Pats cheated, yet again. If it's not that bullshit Spygate, it's a deliberate scoreboard error.

Man. I swear. If the Pats beat the Giants by 40, someone, somewhere will say Tom Brady's shoelaces weren't regulation and, therefore, he had an unfair advantage.

 

Still Harbaugh's fault for not realizing what was going on and taking the time out.

That said, Spygate wasn't buillshit. Overblown? Sure. But they did cheat and for some odd reason, the commissioner did burn the evidence.

 

Everyone cheated. Belichick was the only one dumb enough to do it after the memo went out. And you can tape everything you want, it doesn't make one lick of difference if you don't make the plays when you need to.

Sorry, the Spygate thing still stings as non-Patriots fans try to pretend the Pats were the only team doing it and/or that it somehow diminishes what has been one of the best football dynasties of all-time.

 

Then there should have been no reason to destroy the evidence.

 

Isn't the scoreboard kept by an NFL official? Even in high school, an official keeps it.

 

Oh, and where is the evidence of any other team doing it? Please show your work.

If you are arrogant enough to try to keep cheating even after being told by the league that they are watching you, you deserve to have your legacy tainted.

Would they have won those three championships without it? Probably. But we don't know. Just like you don't know that any other NFL team cheated in the way your Patriots did. You just like presenting that as fact to make yourself feel better.

 

Ok, well since you think I'm making it up, here's a nice little interview a certain Super Bowl winning coach did in which he admitted that not only did he do it but he knows (Key word: Knows) various coaches around the league did it. ... http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/rap_sheet/index.php/2008/02/23/jimmy-johnson-thinks-spygate-is-overblown/

Again, Belichick was a moron for continuing to do it after the memo came out but to pretend like this was some unheard of strategy? Yeah, that's just your hatred for the Pats clouding your judgement buddy.

 

Jimmy Johnson is probably Belichick's best friend in the coaching profession. His testimonial means very little.

Art Modell famously said, "I'll pay anyone here $10,000 if they can tell me what Ernie Adams does." Adams moved on with Belichick to the Patriots, and yet the $10,000 went unclaimed through Modell's death.

 

Sorry, guy . . . but historically, in terms of tabulating the sheer volume of douchebag players on historical rosters . . . the White House Scumsuckers buried the Giants for all time, years ago . . . and I can by no means be termed anything resembling a Giant fan.

 

On a positive note, the NFL got rid of pop bands playing at half-time of the championship games... Is it my imagination, weren't there bands playing at halftime?

 

Brad Paisley played halftime at 49ers, but IIRC he had to play from atop the dugout b/c the field was not in great shape.

 

oh, then I stand corrected, we went out during halftime.