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Bruce Paine, for all of his bluster, will admit that there are things about women he doesn't know. But something he DOES know is that there are two words that start with a "C" that you can't call a chick to her face. One is "cow" and the other one I just don't say. Bill Belichick is one of the second things. I wrote the other day that I need the Patriots (nemesis) to be clean. I meant that. I need them to lose clean. I would like them to lose kicking and screaming and whining like little bitches, but I will take it if they just lose clean. Belichick won't win with aplomb and he won't lose with dignity. For some reason he has to be a little bitch about both and then ruin it by being a cheater and then being a little bitch about it some more. He claims that he misinterpreted the rules but that is just more of what Hunter Thomspon called "hired bullshit" and what Donald Barthelme, in what is perhaps the greatest short story ever written, called "lies".
The old saying goes, "If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying,"  but I don't really have a use for that. There are things we can learn, places we can see (both in ourselves and the world around us), and things we can do that will fulfill us without having to run an end-around the rules of our place and society. When I am asked to fight the last war this world will ever fight, then I will be the first to say, "Screw the rules, lets shoot them in the back, burn their houses, pour salt in their fields and take their women" but until that day comes there isn't anything worthwhile to be had from the way Belichick is behaving both on the field and in the press room. I know that his asshole behavior with the press is consistent with their shared history, but today was a time when he should have shifted gears. He cheated. An assignment handed down in his outfit was clearly and verbatim against the rules set forth by the competition committee of the NFL and each NFL coach is required to be familiar with and subject to those rules. He KNEW he was cheating but chose to do it anyway. When you do something wrong and you KNOW it is FU@%!#$ wrong you apologize for it! This next sentence may not make sense, but hopefully you can read it out loud and understand what I am trying to say. People who are so frightened by defeat that they would rather not lose than win are faint hearted and cowardly. If you cheat to win you haven't won. You lost you just didn't want anyone to know it. If you are so afraid of losing that you cheat, you CANNOT win. If you cheat to win, and winning still feels righteous and doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, you are a loser and a slave to the fashion of a society so self-absorbed that it can't evolve past reality television. I have friends in Boston, and I am getting emails and phone calls with excuses, lies, and hired bullshit. I am numb to it. The high-water mark is beginning to fade and my contempt is steeped. Congratulations Bill, you are now a contestant for BIGGEST DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE!
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So...Melissa Ethridge was the one using the camera?
Boston keeps on getting more unlikeable. If the Pats lose multiple draft picks, I'm sure this will never happen again. Too bad it kind of takes away from the monstrous chargers v pats game on sunday.
rickhouse is dead on, that was an epic game in the making and it is now totally voided. If the Pats lose it was because they were distracted if they win its because they have an unfair advantage. San Diago will receive no recognition.
Jack - she was the only woman I could be certain he wasn't sleeping with
I don't know man, the players are still playing and the plays have to be made.
I'm with you, Bruce. What I keep hearing is that "everyone cheats and the Patriots just happen to get caught." People breeze past this comment like it's completely logical. I guess I was raised differently or something. I've never cheated. And I was taught that doing so was wrong, even if everyone else was. I think it's a copout to claim that the Patriots (or anyone else) shouldn't be punished as harshly just because everyone else apparently skirts around the rules. Should that really be the mentality, particularly in sports, when sportsmanship is supposed to be so highly valued?
A similar argument has been made for the steroid issue. We shouldn't get on Bonds because everyone else was doing it. Maybe so, but that didn't make it any less wrong for Bonds or anyone else to knowingly do something illegal. And the same goes for the Patriots.
That is not the first, second or third time I have heard Bonds compared to Belichick today (it was probably the third, sorry). It isn't without merit, though. Some of the similarities are there. Both cheated on wives. Both cheated in their games. Top of their sports professions
I was pretty sure it wasn't an original thought, because it's a pretty obvious comparison. Both have been accused of cheating in their respective sports, and both are currently the most high-profile cases in those sports.
Waddaya expect? If they guy's a cheater in his personal life, he's likely to be a cheater in his professional life too.
If Goodell really wants to send a message, he suspends Bill, fines him and the team, AND forfeits their top pick in '08.
The best moments of last year are in this order. 1. Colts win Super Bowl 2. Seeing Bellichek against the colts crying and bitching up a storm on the sideline as they were handed a beatdown in the regular season. He acted irregular even for him in that game as they were dismantled.
I'm surprised Jack hasn't resorted to calling Belichick "The Coach from New England".. because this is legitimate cheating while HGH wasn't illegal when Rick Ankiel took it!
pretty good argument there skippy!
Bruce Paine is the main NFL contributor here, not me. We might end up calling you, "the former cool guy from detroit"