Pigskin Boson

Am I feeling good about my pigskin heroes? They beat the Bills just last Sunday, and the Bills are, according to the gridiron cognoscenti, Super Bowl contenders. On the other hand, the Bills didn't look that good beating the Buccaneers last night. In Buffalo. (Hey! It was a short week!)  Still, I should feel good about the Patriots heading down to Miami to play the Dolphins this Sunday. 

Shouldn't I?

Why have I got a bad feeling about this?

Oh, right.

The game's in Miami. The New England Patriots least favorite place to play football.

Belichick and the Patriots are 0-5-0 in games against Tua Tagalaivoa's Dolphins, and the gridiron cognoscenti think the Dolphins also might have a legit chance at getting to the Sin City Super Bowl. Meanwhile, nobody is using the words "Patriots" and "Super Bowl" in the same sentence. Unless they're referring to a once upon a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

The money guys aren't giving the Patriots much of a chance, either. They're willing to give you 9.5 points to entice you into betting on New England. If that sounds tempting, remember, they're called "the money guys" for a reason. Also, you might have a gambling problem and perhaps you should seek professional help. 

Maybe it's that going into the Buffalo game I had prepared myself for pigskin armageddon and then it didn't happen and now I'm not sure what to feel, but I'm going to go with this…

Doom is always lurking. Always has been; always will be. It didn't arrive in Foxborough in 2019. It's been here all along. Sometimes it manifests as a season-ending knee injury. Sometimes as a tipped pass that turns into a pick-6. But sometimes, it doesn't matter what Doom does. Sometimes your QB looks Doom straight in the eye and zips a game-winning TD pass through double-coverage with just a dime's worth of seconds left on the clock.

Doom just laughs that off, of course; Doom knows there's always a loser. 

The corollary must hold true, then. 

There's always a winner.

Suck it, Doom!

That's right. I'm saying there's a chance and it has nothing to do with math. It's because football is crazy, and I have seen a lot of pigskin crazy and a crazy that's a lot crazier than the Patriots winning as 9.5 point underdogs.

Go Pats!