The Indianapolis Colts line up for a trick play against the New England Patriots Sunday night. (Photo NBC video capture) If you asked most Patriots fans prior to Sunday's match-up between the New England and Indianapolis Colts you would have heard how they generally all wanted the Patriots to run up the score on Indy... Continue Reading →
One play shows why the New England Patriots are better than the rest
People hate winners. That's the primary reason why fans around the country hate the New England Patriots. No matter how much the haters complain about unfounded allegations in the long run it really does come down to one thing: the Patriots win and they don't like it. It has to be because Bill Belichick and... Continue Reading →
Textgate and Noisegate: Where’s the uproar?
For several days before the Super Bowl the lead story on almost every national news broadcast was deflategate, and how the New England Patriots cheated by having footballs inflated to under the NFL minimums. You could hardly visit any news or sports site and not see numerous references to the incident, with all sorts of... Continue Reading →
Was Belichick right not calling time out? Well, probably…
There are two big controversies about the last few plays of Super Bowl XLIX: why didn't Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll run the ball from the one yard line and why didn't New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick call timeout with 66 seconds left in the game with Seattle poised to score from... Continue Reading →
The play that won the Patriots the Super Bowl
In years to come when people talk about the New England Patriots winning Super Bowl XLIX 28-24 over the Seattle Seahawks inevitably the play that will immediately come to mind will be Malcolm Butler's clutch interception of Russell Wilson's pass on the goal line. The lucky catch Jermaine Kearse made on the bouncing ball deep... Continue Reading →
Ray Lewis opens mouth, inserts foot
I'm sure there isn't a Patriots fan that hasn't heard the comments of Ray Lewis, the not quite brain surgeon former All-Pro middle linebacker who used to play for the recently defeated Baltimore Ravens, concerning the "tuck rule" being the only reason anyone knows who Tom Brady is. Lewis is saying that if it wasn't... Continue Reading →
