I’ll check your blog out and, frankly, I’m looking for good CFL info, as well. Any advice?

For what it’s worth, there are indeed Canadian Pats fans. I’m trying to get them all together in an online community and I’ll be interested to see what kind of backlash there’ll be up here. I’m sure it won’t be a whole lot different, even though there’s no general allegiance to any NFL team in Canada. No matter where you are, people love to hate the guy at the top.

Cheers,

Mike.

Feel free to check out my blog (still new)…it’s open to anyone, not just Canadians. And in case you’re wondering, “True Patriot Love” is a line in the Canadian national anthem…seemed like a good name for the site.

http://www.truepatriotslove.com

This morning’s sports page headline here in Dallas:

“Perfectly Placed: Greatest-ever tag might fit if the Patriots run the table.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/111407dnspogosselin.36a21c9.html

Considering this is the epicenter of Cowboy country, a nod to the Pats is noteworthy.

To Dan: I’m surprised by your last line. Surely by now you must KNOW the Colts have their excuses ready. Has history taught you nothing.

And, since you raised the specter of Sparky Schultz, on a non-football-related note (unless you count Charlie Brown’s frequent ill-fated placekick attempts — even Romo would be a better holder than Lucy van Pelt), if anyone finds themselves in Santa Rosa, Calif., the Charles Schultz museum is a nifty take.

Nail on the head, as usual. Here’s an added caveat.

The media is not the only ones loving their hatred of the Pats. It’s gotten to the point where everyone is now vilifying OTHER New England Teams, such as the 07 WS champs, and the currently undefeated Celts (I even read scathing commentary about the NE Revolution!!) in order to justify their assertions of just how evil the patriots are.

It’s not anger toward a football team anymore, from the blogosphere to the upper echelons of sports media elite, all of us here in the northeast corner of the USA are evil evil evil.

In this week’s blogs, I’ve heard New Englanders referred to as “elitists”, “snobs”, “cheater-lovers” (my favorite, by the way), “massholes” (’cause “maineholes” and “rhodeHoles” are just plain stupid-sounding I guess)

My point is, have others noticed that the haters are no longer satisfied with hating on our beloved Pats, they gotta be ugly about EVERYTHING new england?

So many prominent people haven’t been this pissed off with New England since King G and the Redcoats got wicked mad about that tea party thing.

I mean, it really IS the world versus us

I’m waiting for Fox news to do a fair and balanced segment on just how unpatriotic we new englanders are for rooting for the patriots. They’ll be a graphic of a burning flag transposed behind a map of New England, with Sean Hannity’s smug face looking at his viewers and saying “Does New England pose a treat to our national security? We’ll report, you’ll decide.”

Oh, you haven’t heard about the Patriots’ new helmets?

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/showpost.php?p=611994&postcount=38

Seriously, to hear the media tell it, the Pats might as well change their intro music from Crazy Train to the Imperial March from Star Wars.

With the Pats though, it seems to go way beyond that. Maybe it’s the times we live in now: way more sports — ahem — “reporting” than ever before (internet, cable, 24hour sports radio); everyone has got to say SOMETHING. But Krist, to hear tell you would think the Pats are channeling Genghis Khan and the Mongol horde.

I truly believe most of this comes from a distaste for BB. It’s open season on him and MSM will use ANYTHING, real or exagerated to lampoon him. I’ve come to relish it now actually. I say bring on the hate. I want the hate; it warms me on a cold day.

They are losing with class and dignity. Proving that it’s better to be a good loser than a bad winner.

If they make it to the AFC Championship game, we’ll get to see a wonderful video where bad things happened, players being helped off the field with a grimace of pain on their face. Tony Dungy looking at the clock with a look of unworried peaceful worry. Peyton driving down the field only to have the kicker miss the field goal. Maybe even some neat footage of old man Manning getting knocked around with class and dignity for the Saints with an air of ‘is this what Peyton now has in store?’. And then the music will swell from downbeat to uplifting showing the Colts overcoming adversity beating the Chiefs and the Texans. Roaring back to the top, having faced their biggest challenges and come out ever so stronger for doing so!