What has me so happy you ask? Of course you do. After all this is my blog and in this little interweb page, my happiness is everything. (Insert Grinning Emoticon Here). Now, here's what I started and set aside:
YAY! The New England Patriots lost to the Denver Broncos in their NFL playoff game. I'm sure that not everyone who's reading this cares, except football fans like me who detest the New England Patriots.
I despise Bill Belichick, the Patriot's head coach. I think he's an arrogant ass, although he has got to be a pretty strict disciplinarian. You never hear news of any of his players getting into trouble with the law. With the League, yes. But not with the law.
What I dislike the most is that cheating runs like life-blood through the organization although they've only been caught and publicly outed twice. That indicates cunning and it's top-down culture.
Sports Illustrated wrote another article about Patriot team cheating, and it's pretty damning.
http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/09/08/patriots-cheating-suspicions-bill-belichick-tom-brady
If a team plays great ball and wins because of superior talent, that's admirable. If a team stoops to cheating to win, that's disgusting.
Sean Peyton, the head coach of the New Orleans Saints, is another unscrupulous asshole who's desire to win supersedes basic sportsmanship and player safety.
In his case, he was suspended from the League for an entire year because he told, not just encouraged but told his players to target players on the other team - and the hell with the penalties. The fact that that targeting could have crippled or otherwise ended that other player's career made zero difference to that piece of dung.
Football is an ugly dirty sport and not all coaches and players are decent human beings. However, Peyton Manning, the quarterback of Denver, is a class act, and so is Gary Kubiak, the head coach. John Elway, the General Manager of the team is another class act. The entire team has an ethic that other teams should admire because you don't hear about players getting stupid and getting into trouble, and you don't hear about scandals and cheating.
Which makes the Bronco's win over a dirty cheating team even better.
On the other side, the Panthers wiped the floor with the Cardinals - it was a hard day for Arizona's QB Carson Palmer.
Either of these teams would be a worthy opponent for Denver, although I would rather see Carolina than Arizona (since they're in the Eastern Conference while Arizona and Denver are both in the Western Conference). I'm just delighted it is one of these teams and Denver. Now I won't have to find something else to do on Superbowl Sunday. Like weed the yard or something.
Beyond being able to watch the game, and I don't know which team I'll be rooting for, I won't have to suffer through seeing Belichick with his usual dyspeptic grimace on the sideline. I swear, the man always looks like he's got a case of really bad indigestion (or he's trying hard not to fart).
And I'll spend the next week and a few days in the lead-up to the Superbowl trying to decided whether I want Peyton Manning and the Broncos to win, or whether I want Cam Newton and the Panthers to do it. Both are class acts so it's hard to decide.
Have fun and I hope your team wins - in whatever sport they play!
Best~
Philippa
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This may have been tardy, but many agree. Brady is one great quarterback, make no mistake. The Bronchos sacked him so many times I was wincing. Brutal game for sure. Hopefully, the Patriots will iron out the wrinkles in their team and "come to the light". Manning played an awesome game and we should all keep him in our thoughts that he stays injury free. This next game will be hard to win.
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