For all the grief we might toss in the local blathermonkeys’ direction in re: their penchant for cheap demagoguery, we must admit that we do enjoy it when they use their powers for good rather than evil. That is, when they take a week off from hating on the embattled and/ or beleagured home team and instead turn their vitriol on the opponent.

You’d think that we’d do a better job of turning the negativity on the bad guys on a week-in-week-out basis, but unless you’re a divisional opponent, we’re not really all that interested. Certainly a typipcal AFC foe would rarely even register. But the Pats are special. Not only are they the jerkfaces that ruined the Super Bowl for us in 2005, but they’re also beating the paint out of everyone this season and will probably win again.

Yup, the Pats are the bad guys this year, and luckily the Philly media’s Phinest have been up to the task with a bunch of ridiculous headlines and general name-calling.  Cheers to you, Phil Sheridan and Sam Donnellon.  Your word choices (”grim”, ”evil”, “merciless”) and generally shameless finger-pointing warms my heart this Thanksgiving holiday. 

Or, in the words of Tina Fey, “I don’t know how yous have time to go the Super Bowl.  Shouldn’t yous be gettin molested by priests and cryin about it?”  

Links:

Relentless Pats follow grim lead of Belichick
NFL’s new evil empire resides in Foxboro