Wait - What?

I’m  not saying the Baltimore Ravens are a bad team, pigskin posers and pretenders, football frauds lucky to be in the playoffs in the first place because they aren’t. They’re a good team, a very good team in fact. A 21^st century head coach, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, an athletic and attacking defense and game-changing talent on special teams. Lately, some of my friends and neighbors in Patriots Nation have adopted a fatalistic acceptance of defeat come this Saturday. The Ravens have the Patriots’ number. They’re a match-up nightmare for New England. Terrell Suggs is Tom Brady’s Baby with one Eyebrow. It’ll be close but the Pats will lose 20-17 like they always do against teams with a dominant front seven on defense.

Wait a minute. When I said, “A 21^st century head coach, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, an athletic and attacking defense and game-changing talent on special teams,” I wasn’t talking about the Patriots?

The Precious

Maybe it's just that we saw "Five Armies" and then followed that up with a "Lord of the Rings" marathon but with all of the weeping and lamentation over the dreaded Ravens coming to town, I couldn't help but think...