It was kind of weird to wake up this morning to a resounding social media chorus of F U NEW ENGLAND. “What did I do? Oh, right.”
Personally I’m just disappointed that Dunkies is so bored with the Pats winning all the time that they don’t give out free coffee for winning games anymore. (I guess it was only $1 today to celebrate? Whoop dee doo!)
I liked how they were essentially a pest species. Nesting in the Millennium Falcon when nobody was looking. More likely that great Jedi Tome left out in the open air was covered in porg droppings over the centuries.
Well, it is something I’ve grappled with at times. I suppose if you don’t care about sports at all (to the point of being anti-sports-- I was there in my youth for a while) then the question is easy. If you enjoy sports (and you don’t even have to be a hardcore fan-- I’m not) and you’ve never had to address this issue then you’re lucky I guess. Almost all team owners are millionaires and billionaires (with very few exceptions), and as such are probably pretty supportive of policies I detest. So like I said, it leaves little room to enjoy sports if we have to judge teams against owners and/or individual members of the team.
I’m not greedy. We’ve been very blessed with championships here as of late (billboard I saw Saturday on 93 south near the Tip O’Neill tunnel: “End the Drought-- 97 days since a Boston sports title” 
) I wasn’t going to be upset if KC beat the Pats-- I want teams that haven’t been there to get a chance-- but I’m not going to root against my home team (in fact if KC won I would have totally been rooting for them.)
Mainly I wanted to see New Yorkers shoot steam out their ears when New England won yet again (now yous guys know how we felt when the Yankees kept winning the Series in the late 90’s.)
I hope it comes across that way
So, what’s your solution? Or do you just live with the inconsistency?
I don’t think there is a perfect solution. Let’s say you admire Colin Kaepernick, and he finally gets re-signed, should you switch your allegiance to that team? But then some of his teammates speak out against him, so rooting for that team also means rooting for some assholes. If you have a favorite sports team do you agree with everything everyone on the team believes? We all have to decide where we draw the line.
Pro sports is mainly mindless entertainment, we don’t have to invest everything with political motives, every square inch of existence doesn’t have to be a battlefield.
I’ll take a working solution over a perfect-on-paper solution on any day.
But it looks like we’re stuck with Plan B here.
There were rumors that the Patriots were actually going to sign Kaepernick as a backup, and Bob Kraft wants to see him back in the NFL. It’s complicated.
True…Brady was off his Game
(I’m not a Brady fan)
but. I admired the Rams and enjoyed
some of the fantastic take-downs
(so to speak).
I’m thinking Gronk is thinking
of… other things.
I’m thinking Gronk is going to be acting in Farrelly Brothers comedies soon.
Hahaha!
Or in Party Animal!
Whereas Brady if he ever retires,
will do Gillette commercials.
(or does he do them already!?)
I came here looking for owls.
Where’s the owls?
Failing that, I am also open for seeing more boobies.
especially the blue-footed ones!
Sorry I’m Off-Topic!
heh
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