It's supposed to feel bad.
"Hey yose guys... you can take your trophy and shove it straight up your ass!" -- Second Baseman and horrible loser Tanner Boyle, "Bad News Bears."
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Has there ever been a New England professional team quite like the 2006 New England Patriots? We're racking our brain(s) here, trying to come up with a comparison.
14 wins in the NFL is a lot of damn wins. That should help every player and coach on pro sports model franchise feel jusssst a bit less hurtful this morning. Okay, maybe about .000257% less hurtful. But still, "progress, not perfection", as they say.
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Now THAT was a season.
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It's not often in the NFL that you can say that each player on the roster contributed something good to the effort. From an outsider's perspective, we think it may just be true of the '06 Pats.
New receivers winning Divisional Playoff games. New kickers absolutely kicking the snot out of the football. Old hands doing what they do better than any players of their ilk in league history. Lineman scoring touchdowns. Future Hall of Famers playing with one arm. Future Pro Bowlers dominating the interior line on both sides of the ball. A bunch of tight ends kicking serious ass in every way. Secondary personnel doing whatever it takes to get the job done. Guys getting hurt left and right, and backups becoming starters, becoming future stars. Linebackers who gave it their all, and will not be forgotten. Quarterbacks who can play a bit.
A special team.
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Following yesterday's game, team VP Jonathan Kraft distributed a press release announcing that the Patriots were pleased to have singed Carl the Kangaroo of Melbourne to an unprecedented $251 million, 251 year contract to become the team's backup punter, in case the outstanding Josh Miller is not healthy by season's start. Carl is a long time star in the Australian Rules Football League, a legend actually. (Though he hasn't been too good lately.) And he's married to one of Australia's most famous..... Well, his wife is extraordinarily famous.
So we have that to look forward to.
Which is nice.
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Has there ever been a New England professional team quite like the 2006 New England Patriots? We're racking our brain(s) here, trying to come up with a comparison.
14 wins in the NFL is a lot of damn wins. That should help every player and coach on pro sports model franchise feel jusssst a bit less hurtful this morning. Okay, maybe about .000257% less hurtful. But still, "progress, not perfection", as they say.
======================================
Now THAT was a season.
======================================
It's not often in the NFL that you can say that each player on the roster contributed something good to the effort. From an outsider's perspective, we think it may just be true of the '06 Pats.
New receivers winning Divisional Playoff games. New kickers absolutely kicking the snot out of the football. Old hands doing what they do better than any players of their ilk in league history. Lineman scoring touchdowns. Future Hall of Famers playing with one arm. Future Pro Bowlers dominating the interior line on both sides of the ball. A bunch of tight ends kicking serious ass in every way. Secondary personnel doing whatever it takes to get the job done. Guys getting hurt left and right, and backups becoming starters, becoming future stars. Linebackers who gave it their all, and will not be forgotten. Quarterbacks who can play a bit.
A special team.
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Following yesterday's game, team VP Jonathan Kraft distributed a press release announcing that the Patriots were pleased to have singed Carl the Kangaroo of Melbourne to an unprecedented $251 million, 251 year contract to become the team's backup punter, in case the outstanding Josh Miller is not healthy by season's start. Carl is a long time star in the Australian Rules Football League, a legend actually. (Though he hasn't been too good lately.) And he's married to one of Australia's most famous..... Well, his wife is extraordinarily famous.
So we have that to look forward to.
Which is nice.
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