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by Shirley Hill
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Add to FavoritesBill Belichick has certainly done an amazing job with the Patriots organization and anyone who wants to get to or win the Super Bowl in this decade must beat the New England Patriots. It's that simple. When I watched him do that at the end of the game I couldn't help thinking that if his team were winning and the opposing coach did what he did I'm sure he would have objected or at the very least commented negatively. That was some of the worst sportsmanship I've seen since I've been watching professional football over the past 20 or so years. Fortunately for his team which is an example of an elite class in the NFL, some of his players did not head for the locker room adn showed decency and respect. The man is undeniably a brilliant coach. If he had gone into medicine and been a surgeon, he would be the stereotypical acclaimed surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. If you watch the television show "House", Belichick makes the main character of that show look like a bleeding heart social worker.
Yes he should have stayed on the field to the bitter end! Not only did his team choke he made it worse by leaving the field early. Belichick does not like to lose even more than most in the sport does especially after a perfect season but at least have some class and dignity when you do. For him to do that to the men who played their hearts out all season,basically had no personal scandals or crimes and won eighteen games shows no respect for them or the game. Yes, he has been able to bring out the best in Randy Moss and Tom Brady has many more years of a fabulous career ahead of him. The coach is doing something right. But how many games that the Patriots won by twenty points or more this past season did he leave his starters in just to wrack up the points?
Belichick said that he remembered the Colts win in the AFC Championship game and wanted his players to play the whole game. He didn't want a repeat of that and was out to prove that point all season. Considering the way New England did just that to leave the field early in the biggest game of the year was just too much. I think there were many people, not just Colts fans who were glad the Patriots lost. I felt bad for the players but I'm perfectly delighted to see Bill Belechick cry into his little hoodie. And being a Colts fan (speaking of choking) I'm so happy one of the Manning brothers made it happen!
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There's a lot of talk in this debate about "sportsmanship." Who cares? This isn't your kid's peewee soccer league where everyone, winners and losers, gets a stupid trophy. This is NFL football, and Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots are the best at it. They were 18-0 and most people expected them to win, and then they lose to the stupid Giants, who first got lucky against the Cowboys and the Packers, and then Peyton's special needs brother gets lucky with a pass to ole' what's his name and they win. They shouldn't have even been in the playoffs in the first place. The Patriots lost to a bunch of scrubs. Who needs to stick around?
Nuts to that, I would say. So what if Belichick left. All this about "decency" and "respect," and comparisons to that stupid show "House?" Is Bill Belichick curing cancer? Hell, no. He's coaching a football team. He's not Superman or Audrey Hepburn helping out the poor on the field. You talk about sore losers. The media and the Patriot haters have done all they could to trash the team, from the convoluted "Spygate Scandal," to the bitching about pushing the score up, and now they have this stupid non-issue. Bill Belichick doesn't need to set good examples "for the youth of tomorrow." Ew! I feel sick just typing that.
Then someone says, "He was spying on the other team - what a "patriotic" thing to be doing." First of all, every team does what the Patriots were doing. Why do you think the NFL only fined him a little and took away a 1st round draft pick they don't even need? Second, are you under the impression that teams need to act as their nickname states? Should the Saints be "saintly?" Should the Jets fly through the air for a touchdown? Should the Redskins only hire Native-American players? Good luck finding them.
And to call Belichick "the Barry Bonds of football?" Good, because like Bonds, Belichick is just a scapegoat in the stupid minds of all sports fans. Ninety percent of Major Leaguers have done steroids, not just Bonds, and 100% of the NFL does whatever the "Spygate" thing was supposed to imply.
And why should Belichick be a "nice guy" to the media or anyone outside of the organization. Is he running for Mayor? President? Should he kiss all the babies at his press conferences? The Patriots will be back in top form in 2008, and you can all hate Bill Belichick again. People always hate the winners (Yes, I'm aware that, by losing the Super Bowl, the Patriots aren't "winners," per se, but 18-1 is still better than your team did. Unless you're a Giants fan.).
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