Sunday, January 17, 2016

A Good Sunday in January

The sun is out. The driveway is plowed. I do need to clean out the clogged filter in our washing machine but not even that can harsh my buzz today. The Patriots are heading to the AFC Championship Game.

 
So, I noticed the "Travis Kelce mocks Tom Brady" post on Bleacher Report and decided to check out the comments. It was fascinating. The posters immediately turned on each other, focusing on the relative intelligence of the parties involved, their lack of spelling skills (good to know somebody still cares about the English language), what your mother said last night and this classic…

"Boston fans are the most arrogant pricks in sports."

While this doesn't seem to speak directly to the sportiness of the KC tight end mocking the greatest quarterback of all time, I would like to say this.

Thank you.

Recent polling had taken us all down a peg and quite a few us were shocked and hurt that our arrogant prickiness had been called into question. How could anyone hate us less than any other fan base? Sure, that 12th Man schtick is a contrivance Seahawks' fans stole from a college, Steelers' fans with their terrible towels are annoying and Jets' fans with their drinking and puking and crying are just disgusting but come on! Boston fans – and Patriots' fans in this context – are the absolute worst. Do you think we use that grating, barely intelligible accent in our everyday lives? Okay, we do, but only when we're creating artfully crafted self-deprecating satires for YouTube.

Anyway, the Patriots onto the AFC Championship Game. For the 5th time in a row. For the 10th time in 15 years.

Are you feeling me?



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