I’ve written about this before, but the New England Patriots are truly the least classy “dynasty” in modern sports history. I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of whiney, sorry players with as much talent as they have. LaDainian Tomlinson was right to get mad, and it’s no surprise the Pats acted like this. The Pats are ridiculous, and it starts with the coach and the veterans on that team who consistently play the victim. There are very few franchises I don’t respect. The Pats are one.
7:57 pm | 5 comments
January 16th, 2007 at 9:38 am
I whole heartedly agree!
January 16th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Oh for the love of Pete! Would you stop already. Your post reminds of a conversation I had recently with a guy wearing a Yankee hat. He said he doesn’t like the Pats b/c they win too much. I had no reply. I heard this a long time ago. Do you remember Bettis and the “Fire Dance”? Vrabel pretty much did on Bettis head after stuffing him in the playoffs. Roid Head Merriman has his sack dance. How many Patriot celebration dances can you name? Plus it’s all over the papers the Chargers called out Caldwell, Merriman dissed the Pats at halftime of the Jets game, the Chargers didn’t sell to New Englanders (or really anyone else outside the ZIP which is actually common. The ‘Canes do that in hockey to me aggravation). So…least classy dynasty? Come on. Define class.
January 17th, 2007 at 9:36 am
The Yankee story is relevant. A Philly fan just called my team classless?! A Yankee fan annoyed by another team because they win too much?! What bizarro world did I just fall into?
I hear ya, the Pats weren’t up to the standards they have shown in the past but to call them “ridiculous” and say “it’s no surprise the Pats acted like this”. The offenders on Sunday should be called out and dealt with but you are labelling a franchise with the acts of certain guys after 1 game. Brady is classy, Grogan, Flutie, Eason, Hannah, Armstrong, Martin, etc… It’s a solid franchise that pulled itself out of a deep hole. Kraft is respected (maybe not so much in Hartford after the Adrian’s (sp?) Landing fiasco) and the fans are generally well behaved. The players stay out of trouble with the law (mostly). You just used a broad stroke to paint the Pats.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Your ridiculous,
I have never experienced such sour grapes in all of sports before. Even Red sox fans after years of getting beat by the Yankees never had more childish post games comments than LT’s. LT sounded like an 8 year old boy whose half eaten lollipop fell into the sandbox during recess.
His crying only exposes how he and his teammates felt entitled to win a game they thought would be a gimmie. The Chargers made so many ridiculous and undisciplined mental mistakes and talked so much crap during the weeks leading up to the licking that they got what they deserved.
I am astonished that LT, in a fit of season ending “I am better than you blues”, would try and defend a steroid using cheat of a teammate who dances after every sack like a complete jerk and idiot.
Just because the Patriots win often does not mean they should not be able to celebrate. I hope the Chargers learned what so many trash talking MVP pro athletes have learned from the Patriots time and time again.
If you expect to win you never will.
Suckers
January 17th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I’ve been to enough Yankees/Red Sox games in my life to know what the Boston fan is like when the Yankees are in town. And LT didn’t hold a candle to the the fans I’ve seen at the games. I have no love for the Yankees, but let’s not pretend Boston fans are anything but whiny about their teams. Read Simmons. Or listen to Boston sports radio…
Second, this isn’t just one game, Justin. They did it during the Eagles Super Bowl, as I noted then. They’ve done the “poor, disrespected” act for 5 seasons now. It’s old. All I’m saying is that this team has been there before, they should act like it.
To #5, there’s celebrating and then there’s disrespecting the other team. Doing a dance that you say was like an “idiot”? Who the hell cares? He’s doing that for the fans.
TO running out to the star in Dallas? He got excoriated for that and probably should’ve been. The Pats did the same thing. They don’t know how to win with class, and they’ve had a history about this.