And Now For The Part Where We Drink The Delicious Tears Of Patriot Nation
Ready to hear the meaningless phrase “best team to never make the playoffs” thrown around for the next five decades, particularly by Bill Simmons? Ah yes, those New England Patriots, excuse me, “Greatriots” fans are outraged at being screwed out of a playoff spot, especially after beating all those tough teams from the West divisions! And, as with anything related to Boston sports, it’s more than an injustice. IT’S THE GREATEST FACKIN’ INJUSTICE OF THEM ALL! NO ONE DENIES THIS!
And now we get the disgusting spectacle of watching two .500 teams fight it out for an undeserved playoff berth in the AFC West. The Patriots should be going to the playoffs, it’s a disgrace that they’re not.
Posted by Richter December 28, 08 07:33 PM
Yes, yes! That’s it! Cry. CRY THOSE BIG FAT TEE-AHS! Bitch like the constant complainers you always are and always have been!
NFL is a crock….letting teams in with a 500 record, really makes the playoffs more exciting, right?
Posted by Don December 28, 08 07:39 PM
Oh, God! Yes! More! I love it when you try and make it sound like everyone else finds your team endlessly compelling. How about a conspiracy theory?
If Wes Welker can get fined for making Snow Angels, why shouldn’t Brett Favre get find for throwing the most blatant interception in the history of the NFL, even if he does lead the league in all-time interceptions?????
Posted by Rich P December 28, 08 07:42 PM
That’ll do! Yes, Favre threw that pick specifically so you wouldn’t make the playoffs! And can we blame a black person for the whole thing now?
Nice job GAFFEney dropping the TD angainst the Colts. It cost us the season
Posted by Angrypatsfan December 28, 08 08:01 PM
STUPID DAHKIE! WELKAHHH WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT BALL!
This hate-on in my pants could very well burst my jean seams, I tell you. And how about using this occasion to completely dismiss Tom Brady?
The NFL is building a mediocre sport by letting teams with worse records go to the playoffs over real contenders. Does the NFL really think those playoff games with horrible teams will be exciting? *yawn*
Roger Goodell, Eric Mangini and Brett Favre all need to be swept out of the NFL – it couldn’t happen soon enough.
Great season, PATRIOTS! Congrats for making it exciting to watch. And to Matt Cassel for giving us hope. I wish you the best ~ Brady can sit out and get married in Costa Rica next season, for all I care. I’d prefer to see Cassel lead a healthy team and return us to the playoffs! Happy New Year!
Posted by product19 December 28, 08 08:01 PM
I agree with you, GREATRIOT fans. WHAT HAS TOM BRADY DONE FOR YOU LATELY? I love it when you pretend to be the most loyal and intelligent fans in the nation, when the truth is you’re just a bunch of whiny, fair-weather fucksticks who think the goddamn Heavens revolve around you, and who overreact at any goddamn thing that happens.
But surely, some of the GREAT fans of CELTIC NATION appreciate the incredibly good fortune they’ve had over the past few years, and are ready to keep everything in perspective when it comes to this whole Tom Brady business, yes?…
TRADE BRADY!
Posted by Mark December 28, 08 03:24 PM
Not what people want to hear but with all we see from Brady these days and with the success of Cassel it may be time for Pats fans to come to the realization that the Brady era is over and the Cassel era has begun.
Posted by patssfan December 28, 08 01:05 PM
It is ironic that Brady may lose his starting QB job with the Pats the same way that Bledsoe did…history repeats itself. Cassel is younger, stronger, more mobile, and can run the ball as well as any QB in the league. Brady obviously has the better leadership and intangibles, but Cassel will obtain those qualities with time. The Pats have found Brady’s replacement and they will let him walk? Doubtful. The Brady era will be cherished by New England fans forever…but that era is likely over. Accept and embrace the change….
Posted by SoxNationWestCoast December 28, 08 03:06 PM
I would sign Cassel long-term; trade Brady for future needs …. let Tom and Gisele get on with their lives. Brady will never return to what he once was … yet he will never be forgotten in NE !! I wish him well …. his name is GOLD in New England Sports History !!
Posted by Tommy D December 28, 08 07:44 PM
It’s true, Tom! You will never be forgotten in Boston fan’s hearts. Except for right now.
For one last excerpt good dose of haterade, we turn to the always reliable Barstool Sports for enlightenment:
Honestly there needs to be an asterix next to this year’s Superbowl Champion because they didn’t go through us and we’re as good and as hot as anybody in the league right now. And 11-5 should get you in the playoffs every single year. That’s how the founding fathers intended it to be. It’s just not fair that the Cardinals, Eagles and either Broncos or Chargers will be in the post season and we won’t. The league has to take a hard look at this and figure out a solution to rectify this problem. And I’m not talking about for the future either. I’m talking about right fucking now! I don’t know whether that means declaring us the winner of the AFC East or creating a new playoff spot or what? But rules are made by human beings and human beings can break them when they spot an injustice and this is a friggin injustice. Seriously if the NFL wants this post season to be taken seriously then Goodell has to figure something out. If not this will just be like when the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics games. It will tarnish the entire competition because everybody knows they didn’t beat the best of the best. Is that what the country wants?
Yes, I believe so.
And you know why? BECAUSE FUCK YOU, THAT’S WHY. FUCK YOU AND YOUR GODDAMN MELODRAMATIC BULLSHIT. FUCK YOU FOR THINKING YOUR LOVE FOR YOUR TEAM IS SOMEHOW BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE’S. IT ISN’T. FUCK YOUR TOWN, FUCK YOUR HISTORY, AND FUCK YOUR MOTHERS. YOU AREN’T SPECIAL. YOU’RE JUST AS FUCKING STUPID AND IDIOTIC AS THE NEXT GROUP OF FANS AND DON’T YOU EVER FUCKING FORGET IT.
DIE.
Tags: Big Daddy Drew, haterade, okay they pretty much did get screwed
December 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
the barstool rant was tongue in cheek, right?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Yep. The league fucked ‘em BIG time. The big losses to the Dolphins, Chargers and Steelers were clearly just a league conspiracy to keep the BEST TEAM EVER TO MISS THE PLAYOFFS home in January. NO ONE DENIES THIS!
December 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
That’s right, Pats fans. Bitch about the Chargers who banged you in the ass by 20 points this year. Even Lisa Ann felt that one.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
you didn’t hear Browns fans bitching up a storm when they missed the playoffs last year at 10-6 because Indy rolled over like a bunch of pussy-riddled dogs and let Tennessee waltz into the postseason did you?
FUCK YOU TONY DUNGY.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
“If not this will just be like when the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics games.”
you mean enjoyable for the rest of the world? yes, NO ONE DENIES THIS!
December 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
and that pic needs a NSFW tag for man-boob. why do fat hairy guys always insist on taking their clothes off?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
An asterix?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
@kiddicus maximus:
as a fat guy, I cant tell you sometimes that clothes are just too damn restricting sometimes…just gotta let that sideboob flop out!
December 29th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
That Barstool Sports rant is like everything we have heard Tawmmy from Quinzee spew out in here….and sadder because it isn’t a figment of BDD’s imagination.
SUCK it Pats fans! This is the system. Everyone knows it. Everyone plays under it. You beat the Dolphins when they revealed that CRAPCAT offense and you are in the playoffs. 11 wins don’t guarantee a playoff spot at all. Never have. Never will.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I’m just happy that my Bills did their job by beating Denver to set up the epic Cutlerfucker-Marmalard showdown, and losing to NE just to ensure their 11-5 playoff snub. But seriously, the rules should be changed immediately.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I didn’t expect all the anger out of Drew today with the Vikes making the playoffs. Not that I have anything wrong with bashing Pats fans, just keep in mind that Buzz is watching. Buzz is always watching.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
OH MY GOD! The Patriots had to abide by the very same rules that govern the playoff chances of every other team? For shame.
No Cowboys, Pats, or Favre. Are the playoffs going to be televised?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
from the Football Outsiders chat on ESPN.com right now:
jake, beantown, ma [via mobile]: Where do you seeing Matt Cassel going next year? Will the Patriots keep him for one more year with the uncertainties of Brady’s knee? Why isn’t Cassel in MVP talk…or Welker? The Pats win 5, max, games without them…
Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders: (3:10 PM ET ) Can’t say I agree, Jake. Welker’s definitely a valuable player, but a lot of his success comes from lining up next to Moss (admittedly, Moss also gets help from lining up next to Welker, but the relationship is tilted far more in Welker’s favor.)
As for Cassel, you’re really ignoring the context he was playing in. Cassel came into the BEST OFFENSE IN NFL HISTORY and cost them games virtually singlehandedly. By the end of the year, he’d put up several good games, but he faced one of the league’s easiest schedules in the process. I don’t think he’s by any means a great quarterback — a borderline starter unless he takes a huge leap — and I think the talk of franchising him or trading him for a first-rounder isn’t a great idea.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“Honestly there needs to be an asterix next to this year’s Superbowl Champion because they didn’t go through us…”
He forgot to add “unless Miami, Pittsburgh, SD, or Indy win the Super Bowl” because, yeah, they did go through you.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
If you can’t win your division with the easiest schedule in the NFL you don’t deserve to be in the playoffs.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“there needs to be an asterix” is the new “NO ONE DENIES THIS”
December 29th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
11-5 = 0-16 = no play-offs this year.
I also love this comment, “This is a bunch of BS…I think we should have a playoff game with the dolphins to see who should really win!!! This sucks!!!”
go suck a fat dick Pats fans
December 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I hate the Patriots and whiny New England assholes in general, but have to admit that when all 4 wildcard teams are favorites this weekend, the league might want to rethink the system.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Patriots’ hating is so much more fun knowing that Eli and the Giants began their epic downfall.
/sips Patriot Nation tears from sippy cup
December 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Seriously Drew, where do you find time to post on Barstool Sports, too? Do you just stay in Tommy character all day?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I’m in the same kind of mood that bill murray was at the end of Scrooged. I want to kiss bobcat goldthwait.
All of this is so fantastic.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I know a shaved shoulder area when I see one, and that sir is a shaved shoulder area. You can tell from the sprawling nature of the highest chest hair, that shit keeps on trucking up and over the shoulder blade.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Wow. The Patriot schadenfreude parade lurches towards 2009 as Drew vents his frustration that Minnesotta is full of farm teams for the New England franchises. Moss, Big Papi, Garnett. Purple Jesus will need a new nickname when he arrives…
December 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
“but have to admit that when all 4 wildcard teams are favorites this weekend, the league might want to rethink the system.”
Disagree, I think it shows that the wildcard system is working perfectly; the system recognizes that there are going to be teams better than those that win divisions sometimes, and they should get in the playoffs too. But tough tittites turkleton for New England, they were behind the other wildcard teams. There is no injustice here.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I tried with my friends during the day Sunday to think of a playoff system that would prevent teams from missing the playoffs in place of terrible division winners, but it’s tough.
- Expand to three or four wildcards per conference? – ..and eliminate byes for top teams? Cheapen the value of making the playoffs? (See: NBA, NHL)
- Top six teams get in regardless of division? – If divisions are pointless, why play those divisional teams twice a year? If you’re up against the other 15 teams in your conference, play all 15 of them once plus one NFC opponent. That sounds like early interleague baseball, where you still had no idea which conference was better, and kills all the natural rivalries (aka reasons to watch random mediocre/crappy teams).
So basically unless they want to either ruin the playoffs or ruin the regular season, there’s not much that can be done except wait for divisions to naturally balance out. And I’m a Pats fan. Meh.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
“…AND FUCK YOUR MOTHERS”
Belichick’s working on that even as we speak.
/11-5 is the new 18-1.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
“you didn’t hear Browns fans bitching up a storm when they missed the playoffs last year at 10-6 because Indy rolled over like a bunch of pussy-riddled dogs and let Tennessee waltz into the postseason did you?”
Um, what?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
The tears or fair weather Pats fan is better than Vitamin water!
December 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
HAHAHAHA Who spends time reading postings? That’s more pathetic than those doing the writing.
oh wait…
December 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Pats fans wanting to trade Brady and pay Cassel = Pats fans who believe Brady was the only Pats QB in team history before this year
December 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
This is by far the worst thing to happen to the NFL since the Patriots joined the league in 2001.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
6 day New England winter blizzard + Pats missing the playoffs to an 8-8 team + Redsawx losing Tex to Yankees + Celtics losing back to back at LA and Golden State = massive influx in domestic dispute 911 calls in greater New England area.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I never thought anything could top Yankees schadenfreude.
I was wrong.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
These are the same fuckwits who signed that “petition” for the league to overturn the Super Bowl.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
It was a great year. All I can say is this outpouring of emotion by non-pats-fans is simply beautiful. I feel self absorbed having only really cared about the success of one NFL team, the Patriots. All the while, the commentors here have cared about my favorite team, as well as theirs. Well, I am touched.
Thank you.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
No Cowboys, Pats, or Favre. Are the playoffs going to be televised?
I’ve been afraid to tune into ESPN today. I’m sure it’ll all be ” ‘What went wrong for the Cowboys?’, ‘What can the Patriots do to get back to the Super Bowl?’ and ‘Will the Gunslinger play next year?’ These questions and absolutely no more on today’s NFL Live!”
December 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I wonder what these anti-League Office idiots thought when the Pats, coming off an 18-1 season, were given the league’s easiest schedule.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Well, after after spending yesterday afternnon & evening watching my two teams (Denver & Dallas) get ass-raped by a combined 96-27 (Playoffs? We’ll pass…thank you anyway.) all I’m left with is shadenfreude over the cosmic injustice done unto the GREATriots and their douchebag fans.
On one hand, I do think it’s a travesty that an 8-8 team is in the playoffs (and HOSTING!) while 11-5 team is not. On the other hand…fuck ‘em. Hard.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“Honestly there needs to be an asterix next to this year’s Superbowl Champion because they didn’t go through us….”
Right, except Miami, San Diego, Pittsburgh, and Indy. All beat the Patsies. Go back to the preseason and add Baltiless, Philly and New Yawk. What a bunch of whiny little bitches.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The Patriots should trade Brady. All he did was throw 50 touchdowns and go 16-0 the year before. Why shouldn’t they keep Cassel as the starter. He did so well what with the 29 fewer touchdowns and missing the playoffs with essentially the same team that Brady had.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Drew,
Thank you immensely.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
SUCK A BIG FAT DICK LOSERS!
STEELERS FUCKING RULE!
/Pats fan in disguise
December 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Isn’t that tatoo on the gay shoulder?
AND HOW ABOUT THEY GET FUCKED BY THE HORSE THEY RODE IN ON TOO?
“But surely” – And stop calling me Shirley!
December 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
@FozzieBear: I wonder what these anti-League Office idiots thought when the Pats, coming off an 18-1 season, were given the league’s easiest schedule.
To be fair, it’s difficult not to have one of the easier schedules when you go 6-0 against your division, depressing that strength of schedule, and your division draws the worst division in each conference in rotational scheduling. The Pats did get assigned Steelers and Colts as their non-rotation games, which is reasonably tough and great ratings games for the league. Even with these games though, the nature of being 16-0 means that since you didn’t play yourself, SOS is easier.
The league office doesn’t really give a shit about individual teams, it cares about creating boring straight-edge players and big ratings, however possible.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I HATE PATS FANS! Maybe this will make it easier for me to attend a game or training camp now that they are out of the playoffs and the bandwagoners will disappear. Ive been going to Patriots training camps for the last 17 years with my brother everytime I go back north. I remember when you used to be able to talk to the players. Now it is fucking ridiuclous. The fans are fucking idiots: 1. They cheer when theyre not supposed to, when the fucking team is on offense. 2. They leave the game early. 3. 95% of them can’t name more than 4 players on the fucking team. And now people are calling for Brady to leave. They deserve all the bashing this fine website hands them.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
You know why I’m ok with it?
/goes to cheer for the combined 50+ wins and 8 losses of the Bruins and Celtics.
Damn it’s good to be a Bostonian.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
The Patriots aren’t in the playoffs?
December 29th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
How much do you think that guy paid for the artificially-worn Patriots cap? All he’s missing is for his hair to come out like little wings above his ears, a la Jimmy Fallon.
Also 2008 is an excellent vintage for NFL Haterade. I think I’ll get a couple cases and store them in my cellar for future enjoyment.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Anybody agree that AP’s new Patriots nickname will be Purple Satan?
December 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
@ Fitz:
The Pats’ schedule was designated as the leagues’ easiest PRIOR to the season by Pro Football Prospectus/footballoutsiders.com. While the factors you mentioned were part of that, it was more a product of the fact that out-of-conference games against the putrid AFC and NFC Wests. My point was that nobody was complaining about the league’s preestablished rules when the schedules came out.
One could also argue that their 11-5 record wasn’t that impressive, and that they likely would have done no better than 8-8 with, say, an NFC East, NFC South or AFC South schedule. Which really is kind of the point of the automatic bid for the division winners- every team knows they can get to the playoffs if they just beat out their division opponents, which is only fair given the schedule quirks.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Old School Pat tattoo wouldve given this man higher Bostonian status
December 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
“If you can’t win your division with the easiest schedule in the NFL you don’t deserve to be in the playoffs.”
Actually, that’s not really accurate. True, the AFC East teams probably had the easiest schedule out of any division with the West-West games. But at the start of the season the Pats were declared to have an easier schedule than, say, the Dolphins because the Pats got to play the “1-15″ Dolphins twice while the Dolphins had to play the “16-0″ Pats twice. So in the context of the 2007 season, the Pats had the easier schedule. But in the context of 2008, since the Pats flexed with PITT and @Indy while the Dolphins flexed with BALT and @Hou – with all other games being equal, save home/road differences – the Dolphins had the easier schedule. Which is why it makes sense that they won the tiebreak for conference record.
Which is all to say that the playoff system is fair. The Pats and their fans got to enjoy a great season last year, so their schedule was made slightly more difficult than their division rivals’. And the Dolphins sucked hard so their schedule was made easier, to give them the inside track to the division title and, therefore, the playoffs.
And that’s exactly how it worked out. So Pats fans (myself included) can blow themselves for crying foul. The NFL rightly encourages parity and this is the direct consequence of that. Considering a 16-0 and 1-15 team from a year ago were involved, it’s actually quite poetic. You can bet Goodell beats off to this exact scenario.
/gets off soapbox, lights eyelids on fire
December 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/cockface.jpg
Just a friendly reminder…
December 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Eat cocks. I really hope all of New England comes down with a raging case of herpesyphilis. Again. Shouldn’t they be taking their mentor Simmons’ words to heart? Three rings means 15 years of no bitching or something about Karate Kid.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
You should all go suck a cawk!
December 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
My schadenfreude is tempered only by the fact that I’m 95% certain that the Barstool rant is a textbook case of flame-baiting.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
NOT PICTURED:
That guy, 8 hours later, passed out drunk and covered in swastikas.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
/goes to cheer for the combined 50+ wins and 8 losses of the Bruins and Celtics.
The Celtics have -1 losses? Ah, I get it. The Bruins are winning this year so you’re new to this whole hockey thing. You count an overtime loss as a win in disguise.
(By the way 5+4=9)
December 29th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
“Honestly there needs to be an asterix next to this year’s Superbowl Champion because they didn’t go through us and we’re as good and as hot as anybody in the league right now.”
I’m not sure how the image of a small Gaulish comic book warrior next to this year’s Super Bowl Champ will assist Patriot nation in their mourning. But if it keeps them from fucking crying like babies, I say someone runs to a bookstore and purchases a copy of Asterix the Gladiator and snips a frame out for them to place next to the Champs come the evening of February 1. Hopefully it’s just what they need.
/now silent, embarrassed Broncos fan….
December 29th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
ahahahaha.. nice job, BDD.. that was the funniest shit i’ve read on KSK in quite a while. fuck you boston!
oh and hey captain murphy, eat a fat dick. how’d you like that christmas day beatdown the lakers gave you? go cheer for that you insufferable boston douche.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Ah, today’s BS Report is so delicious. “We had a good team – we did, we did.”
December 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
holy shit! Is this what living in Boston is like???
December 29th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
CR — no, it’s worse, because in real life you don’t get the BDD snark. just the unvarnished douchebaggery.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yes, your tears sustain me. I must feed off your misery!
On a side note. Did that last fuckwad really compare the NFL post-season qualification rules to the Cold War?
December 29th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
There’s definitely something in the water in New England. I have a cousin who moved to Boston a few years ago, after never having been within 3000 miles of the east coast in his life. A few months after he arrived, the Red Sox won the WS, and what do you think showed up in my inbox the next morning? “We did it! Suck on that, Yankees fans!”. I emailed back, tongue in cheek, “You certainly became a lifelong New Englander in a hurry!”. His response? “You don’t understaaaaaaaand! You wouldn’t understaaaaaaand unless you lived here!”
It must be one unending battle between persecution complexes and sense of entitlement in that city.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Wow! Rosie O’Donnell has a hairy chest.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
The best part of watching the Jets shit the bed yesterday was watching it happen with my friend who happens to be a Pats fan. “Man this is bullshit, we are 11-5…blah blah blah”.
Pure comedy gold!!!!
December 29th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Drew, if you posted 30 of these a day, I would read them. Also, you might want to get one ready for when the Celtics win 70 games this year before losing to the Cavs in the playoffs.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
<3 Drew at the end.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I deny it.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
@two
Yeah, sorry, missed one loss, it happens. I still don’t have to take my shoes off when I do my counting. Thank god too, or I’d never be able to do it, as you may have noticed.
We do like our hockey around here, it’s just that we hate Jeremy Jacobs and we have enough dominant college teams that have been more entertaining for the past few years…
December 29th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
:(
December 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
As a Pats fan, I can’t even begin to apologize for this.
Please pile on more hate. Jesus fuck do we deserve it. I now am openly rooting against the team I’ve rooted for my whole life. Bring on the Grogan-era mediocrity! Fuck Visanthe… the Pats were swinging big blacksnakes around the locker room decades ago, and getting sued for it!
I want the Pats to suck again so I can love them again.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
@ GUGhost — “how’d you like that christmas day beatdown the lakers gave you?”
followed by an embarrassing loss to the Golden. State. Warriors.
/fortunate that none of my Patriot fan friends are like these bandwagoneering, delusional assholes.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Can all the Patriot haters at least admit that the fact that the Pats still get a worse draft pick than all those worse record having playoff teams? The NFL could at least be consistent.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I will say that the Pats, as Brock Drywall mentioned earlier, gave us all some fun and colorful characters back in the day. Zeke Mowatt’s “Hey, bitch, step up to the mic” line to Lisa Olsen, will always be a favorite of mine. That was when Victor “Shaves as Close As A Blade- Or Your Money Back!” Kayyam owned the Pats.
Sam “May Day” Malone was always a cool guy, too. But besides that, fuck Boston and fuck Boston fans.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
@Cap I’m sure Jacobs hates you too. He is a Buffalo guy after all.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Seriously, how in the fuck was Cheers set in Boston? Thank god Sunny has replaced it as the best bar-set TV show of all time.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Nobody thought the Giants schedule was easy??? Guess the only schedules that matter to you guys are the Patriots? Who did Minnesotat play? They got to play DET twice…that is like two automatic wins period. I don’t think the Vikings even needed to show up and they would have won. They could have had Drew and the rest of the KSK staff play and the STILL would have beat Detroit…anyone DENY this?
December 29th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
@me priceless i know people just like that and i pity them
I will check that boston message board forever now, and laugh as much or more at it as I do KSK
December 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Nobody thought the Giants schedule was easy???
New York Giants schedule, from Week 8 on:
Sunday, 10/26 Pittsburgh W, 21-14
Sunday, 11/2 Dallas W, 35-14
Sunday, 11/9 Philadelphia W, 36-31
Sunday, 11/16 Baltimore W, 30-10
Sunday, 11/23 Arizona W, 37-29
Sunday, 11/30 Washington W, 23-7
Sunday, 12/7 Philadelphia L, 20-14
Sunday, 12/14 Dallas L, 20-8
Sunday, 12/21 Carolina W, 34-28 (OT)
Sunday, 12/28 Minnesota L, 20-19
No, actually, I don’t think it was “easy.” The Pittsburgh Steelers, obviously, had the toughest schedule, but the New York Giants schedule had some really good teams on it.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
@BDD: You wrote that last comment just to piss off the Greatriots fans didn’t you? BRILLIANT.
/Tears of Pats fans getting me through my Emo week.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Fuck Boston AND New York.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Patriot fans are the scum of the earth.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Nobody’s mentioned Brandon Pollard? I thought he was the reason the Pats sucked. I laugh at Favre because I’m a Packers fan but still no Massholes have bothered blaming Pollard? I’m disappointed in you guys!
/Favre throwing that last pick= double the fun (NE out, he sucks)
December 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
If the Greatriots had an easy schedule, then everyone else had an even easier schedule! NO ONE DENIES THIS.
“The Giants have not played a team with a record under .500 since defeating San Francisco on Oct. 19. Their final two games are against 11-3 Carolina and 9-5 Minnesota, a streak of 10 consecutive games against teams with winning records. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Giants will be the first team in NFL history to play 10 straight games in a single season against teams with a winning record entering the game.” http://www.giants.com/news/eisen/story.asp?story_id=33269
/puts on gold chain and Shockey jersey, gels hair, shows self out
December 29th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Funniest…..thing…..that….ever….happened.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Minnesota’s wins over Detroit were by 1 and 4pts respectively…
December 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
2005: The Patriots win their division at 10-6. The could’ve won it at 9-7. I didn’t hear anyone in New England complaining.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
/hategasm
December 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
im not trying to insist anything,because ive never even been to boston,but since they are the greatest fackin sparts towns eva,i was just wondering how much support did the celtics have before last year,how much support did the patriots have before 2001,and how much support did the sox have before,what was it 2003?2004? because again,just speaking off the top of my head,but before 2001,beantown was fairly quiet,if not at times embarassing on the sports scene,no. but you fairweather fucks are loud as fuck now,and whats worse,is you arent philly fan,who is obnoxious fan that i can admire more because they would rather say they suck and kill their athletes as opposed to make up excuses and conspiracy theories as to why you were “rawbbed”.you guys are worse than (insert clasless sore loser sports fan in your region.in my case…) University of Tennessee fans in this state. and thats gawd-fackin awful
December 29th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
KSK Guys – the world does revolve around Boston sports, though. Patriots dominate the NFL, B’s are dominating the NHL this year, the Celtics are busy creating a new dynasty, and the Sox are perennial playoff contenders. So what the fuck are you guys talking about?
December 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Nothing is better than a Monday spent watching the Massholes and and Dallasses bitch about missing the playoffs. Goddamm life is good!
December 29th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
@Dan
You can’t end any post that sucks the ass of Massholes without the prerequisite…….NO ONE DENIES THIS!!!!
December 29th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
‘Dallasses’ are not bitching. We know where the problem is with the ‘Boys. It’s right at the top. But what the fuck, you can’t fire the owner! My only recourse is to tell all my friends who ask me to get in their season ticket group to FUCK OFF!
December 29th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
/dick joke
December 29th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
“But in the context of 2008, since the Pats flexed with PITT and @Indy while the Dolphins flexed with BALT and @Hou – with all other games being equal, save home/road differences – the Dolphins had the easier schedule. Which is why it makes sense that they won the tiebreak for conference record.
And the Dolphins sucked hard so their schedule was made easier, to give them the inside track to the division title and, therefore, the playoffs.”
Except it actually made no difference at all because the Dolphins lost to both Baltimore and Houston and the Pats lost to both Pitt and Indy. Aside from that their schedules are the same.
It is sort of a travesty that an 8-8 team is getting in over an 11-5 team. But don’t forget that team would have been 9-7 if not for Hochuli. If you factor in the Pats super-easy schedule the Chargers probably had the better overall season. Remember the most impressive thing the Pats did all year was splitting two games with the Fins. That’s not really very remarkable. They had a 1-4 record against playoff teams with 3 of those losses being blowouts.
Plus, there the Patriots, and they and their scummy fans deserve to be screwed over.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“Honestly there needs to be an asterix next to this year’s Superbowl Champion because they didn’t go through us and we’re as good and as hot as anybody in the league right now.”
an asterisk on this years playoffs huh? similar to the asterisk that accompanied last years regular season undefeated team that was caught for cheating earlier on? thought so…
oh and fuck the pats, it’s the vikings year
/ducks
December 29th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
That is fucking phenomenal. I have been to a lot of East coast towns just for the history and REFUSE to go to Boston just because of the CONSTANT threat of being surrounded by a bunch of taint-waffles. Unbridled douchebaggery on the part of Pats fans makes life worth living.
It is akin to seeing someone realize there is a big fucking spider on their shoulder and laughing while they scream and slap to get it off. . . HILARIOUS!!!
/Butt-fuck the Pats
December 29th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Like this type of thing doesn’t happen in the NBA every season. 50 wins in the Western Conference doesn’t guarantee you a playoff spot but 41 wins in the East most likely will get you one.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I didn’t see Pats fans wondering if their precious 16-0 record in ‘07 was somehow tainted by getting to play in a division with the Bills (7-9), Jets (4-12), and Dolphins (1-15). Oh wait, that schedule also included Philly (8-8), Cincy (7-9), and Baltimore (5-11). That’s nine games against legitimate dogs – and if you want to argue that Philly was somehow hot shit, well, you also got to play against the 10-6 Browns, and everyone knows the Browns suck. And that brutal schedule was followed up by…the easiest schedule in the NFL for 2008.
You missed the playoffs, the Chargers get in. It happens. That’s why it’s called a wild card – you don’t know how it’s going to end up. Take care of business in your own division next time, bitches.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
@ Dan Handsome: The Pats are out of the playoffs, the Celtics have won as many titles in the past 10 years as the Miami Heat, the Red Sox got punked by Tampa in October and the Yankees in December, and who gives a fuck about hockey? So what do you have…an average football team, a champ in the NBA (congrats, way to buld that one from the grassroots, by the way), a competitive baseball team and a hockey team that 6 people care about. Congratulations, Boston, after years of trying, you are officially on par with Detroit.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Mercury Morris would like to remind everyone that the ‘72 Dolphins went undefeated while using a backup QB for most of the year.
Also, you know the Massholes have been licked when their only retort is to bring up their success in shitty sports that no one cares about.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I’m glad my humble teams could help with the Bawston bashing.
/Warriors fan
/49ers fan
/attempts to bring up fact that Mike Singletary was signed to a contract, sees Patriot Pat burning in effigy, backs away slowly
December 29th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
For some reason, everyone I work with around the globe agrees: Travelling east is way harder than travelling west. It’s inevitably easier to deal with gaining time than losing it. Especially before a critical work day.
Doesn’t matter if it’s across a state line, across a continent, or across the ocean.
So as long as East-coast teams schedule 10:00 am PST home games against their West Coast visitors, giving themselves an inevitable and unearned out-of-conference advantage, they can all suck an atomic clock.
And as one of the 5 other people who care about hockey — why do you think the Detroit Red Wings, on the fringes of the Eastern time zone, has so totally dominated the Western conference?
December 29th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Ok, I’m a pats fan, and I’m over it.
This sucks a fat one.
And no, we can’t change it, and now the Pats are making tee times, and the fuckwits from the NE area are making themselves heard. It’s not my fault we have so many dumbasses, the population density up here is a lot higher than in KC or Green Bay ( that’s not a knock, check the census). The squeaky wheel always gets the grease, y’know
But, you know what, BDD? If this happened to the Vikes, you’d be equally pissed. An 11-5 record and beign left out as two 8-8 teams battle to go to the second round? There’d be a full jambaroo rant on this thing.
In fact, the rules cost the Raiders a win against us in 2001, and they were pissed. So we’ve seen it happen before.
It’s just part of the game, I guess. A fucked up rulebook, but then, Ed Hochuli miraculously had his ass pulled out of the fire by Cutlerfucker, didn’t he.
We’re fans, and our team got ever so slightly hosed by the rule book, so we’re going to bitch.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
That said 2 points:
1) It might not be a bad idea to just take the best 6 teams in a conference for the playoffs.
2) Tony Romo is still a bitch, and I will gladly celebrate that fact as I mourn the end of my team’s season.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:58 am
If you’re just going to take the 6 best teams, you basically have to make it a 16 team conference with no divisions. The division thing cannot exist without reward for winning it, especially if you play home-and-home against division rivals. Of course, you’re going to have strength of schedule issues.
Or, just make it one big league with 32 teams and 12 playoff spots. And the winner are determined by which team’s fans are whiniest. This sort of thing happens a lot, the Patriots aren’t the first and won’t be the last to finish with a better record than a division winner and miss the playoffs. The NFL likes division races, so they probably aren’t going anywhere.
Also, Mercury Morris’ camera-mugging ass can suck a cock. No one gives a shit about the ‘72 Dolphins going undefeated against the world’s easiest schedule anymore, especially since we now play 2 more games. It’s like Nebraska crowing about starting 5-0 against 5 foes from Division III back in the 90’s.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Holy shit these people really do exist! I thought “Tommy from Quinzee” was just some funny fictional post you guys put together. I didn’t realize you just cut and pasted those things from actual fans. Get over yourselves, Celtic nation! Nobody pucking cares!
December 30th, 2008 at 1:24 am
well,it would all be fine and well if we took the “6 best teams/records” until the patriots get fucked out of that one and tommy from quinzee wants to go back to the division winners plus 2 wildcards. just fucking around. it is a shit situation,but to be perfectly honest,i dont think an NFL playoff schedule based on Power Rankings would necessarily work.what i believe made more sense was having three larger divisions (i know asshole,you cant divide the NFL into 6 equal divisions)but the larger divisions would seem to work because there would be more divisional games played and due to the fact of there being more teams in said divisions,it would be less likely that you would have a top to bottom shit division (such as the AFC and NFC West). so the division records gain more validity because ideally youd be playing a stronger schedule. it seems to make sense because your division winners and wildcards would actually be better teams. look up the old NFC-AFC east/west/central and play it out and see how the playoffs would look with it that way. just a long,drawn out idea
December 30th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Mercury Morris didn’t actually say that. I was just using him as an archtype for the douchey old Pats-hater. Regardless, the point still stands. If Earl Morrall can go undefeated against a bunch of cupcakes, the Pats have no excuse for missing the playoffs.
Bottom line, you can’t complain if you go 11-5 with a cotton-candy schedule (especially when you get the shit kicked out of you by every good team you play). If the Pats and Chargers swapped schedules, they’d probably swap records too. And yes, I know the Dolphins are going to get blown out in the first round and go 6-10 next year.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:52 am
@ I Love Brett Favre and his Meaningful INT’s
Please don’t mangle the best dancer’s name in the NFL like that. It’s Bernard Pollard.
“IN FORT WAYNE WE GOT DANCERS!”
December 30th, 2008 at 4:40 am
It sucks for a team to go 11-5 and miss the playoffs. But fortunately, we have this wild card system that insures that even if you have the misfortune of being in a division with an unstoppable juggernaut like the Dolphins, you still have a chance to make it in by being one of the ‘best of the rest’. But if there are other teams in that group that outperform you, well then they deserve to go, and you don’t.
Next time try being better than the other teams in contention, then you might get a playoff spot.
December 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am
The Seahawks were only 4-12 this year, but I think that we should be reseeded in our own division with Detroit, Kansas City and the ‘76 Buccaneers. Then we would have made the playoffs.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:25 am
So, just so we are clear, what you’ve done here is carefully select comments from a few degenerates on a Boston sports message board, and apply themes subjectively extrapolated from said comments to the entire Pats fan base, right? Got it.
/bitter
//seriously the Dolphins are fucking terrible
December 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am
@Brad Lohaus
if it were only that. i went to the links to and for every 1 person like you there are 20 whiney, bitch posts. you are the carefully selected minority of pats fans.
//seriously the Dolphins beat your asses
December 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Yeah I have absolutely no sympathy for Patriots fans this time.
they have won 3 superbowls in this decade, and participated in one of the all time great ones for their fourth appearance.
where the hell were all you whiny, fairweather ass pats fans when your team sucked? Ill tell you where you were, bitching about how the Redsox didn’t make the world series again.
Your team dominated the league for years, had arguably the best offense ever last season, won clutch game after clutch game and you still complain. Your response to the Quarterback that brought it all to you is to write him off immedietely in favor of a rookie that couldn’t win you guys any of the big games in the regular season?
Please, learn some god damn loyalty or do all the rest of the NFL a favor and go back to bitching about THAH SAWHX.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Oh my GOD Pats fans are annoying. So if the playoff system doesn’t work what do you suggest? Maybe we should have a computer tally up points based on difficulty of schedule, margin of victory and have coaches polls…oh wait, that’s the BCS isn’t it? I’m a Cowboys fan and I can say we didn’t get in because we didn’t deserve to. And the Patriots didn’t deserve to either, ya know why? Because they didn’t! Your record doesn’t mean shit and you’re not entitled to anything.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:51 am
@ PirateParrot- And actually 5 SB’s in the last 11 years.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Ahh, how do Charger fans forget so easily? They redefined what it means to be the ultimate crybabies: http://facelevelriverboarding.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/09/ladainian_tomlinson_crybaby.jpg
December 30th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Man… I think I might be the only New England fan that 1) is pretty happy about this season because it was really fun to watch and we still had a competitive team despite the injuries and 2) said immediately after the Jets game ended that, realistically, this was not a Super Bowl team in its current state so, even though it sucks, we weren’t exactly robbed of any great chance.
Oh, and when the Patriots sucked I was sitting in the cold on aluminum benches cursing Thurman Thomas, thankyouverymuch.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
@ TheMoshPit- I don’t count the Pre-Tom Brady era because the army of annoying masshole Pats fans had not manifested itself outside of Boston, it was a contained infection at that point.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Please tell me that you don’t actually think the Viqueens are going to do anything against the Eagles this weekend. I love how you make fun of every other team in the NFL and their fans only when they fail. Can’t wait to see what you have to say next Monday after Minnesota gets a first-round exit.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
this sucks. this is turning into a legitimate sports discussion/argument,and i almpost got roped in…..more insults please and where the FACK is tommy
December 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
No “Patriots Hating is Good for Business” tag? Advertising business must be picking up.
I hope you shit your pants at your daughter’s wedding.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
And yet the Pats could have avoided much of this by NOT LOSING TO THE CHARGERS 30-10!!
Screw you, they already HAVE gone through you.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:27 am
Their whole season was over when they got duped not once, not twice, not three times, but four times for TD’s by Miami running the SAME PLAY in foxboro. Whine all you want, if you can’t stop a college play four times, f u, you don’t get to be in the playoffs. Deserves got nothin to do with it.
Go Chad, Ricky, Ronnie – the playoffs will be more enjoyable without those cheaters anyway…
December 31st, 2008 at 8:34 am
It sucks, but had the Patriots beat the Colts, it would Peyton missing out while being 3 full games better than the Chargers. Or maybe if the Patriots had decided to stop the Dolphins wildcat formation in week 2 it would be them. The Pats had their chances.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
I hate to break it to the putz that started this post, but you’ll find fans that overreact about everything on all message boards. People are calling for the heads of coaches after 1 loss, the refs paid off the league, etc. Relax, numbnuts. It’s not just Patriots fans that say silly things.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:39 am
Or should I say, “they paid the refs off. The league is against us”. That sort of thing. Whoever this guy is that is making a big deal out of these comments needs to get laid or something instead of getting his panties all twisted up over what some fans say after their team is out of the playoffs.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Hey, I’m a Colts fan and none of us are complaining about not having a bye week (we have the 2nd best record in the AFC) and having to travel to San Diego, a team we have a four game advantage on. You just have to take what the league gives you. Maybe if the Pats didn’t blow it against the Colts or against the Phins or any of the five teams they lost to.