New England Patriots Fans Should Embrace the Hate in '08

What I want as a fan is to watch my team win. That is what the Patriots have done and, with the conclusion of Spygate, will continue to do.

That’s right. We’re evil. And we’re going to hang fifty points on your team and continue to pour it on until the final gun sounds. Sorry guys—Belichick’s going to be running the Patriots for at least another five years. So instead of whining about Spygate, maybe you should start following another sport. I hear Cricket is a rip-roaring good time.

That is why “Embrace the Hate in ‘08” has become my slogan for this season’s Patriots, because ultimately, underneath the cries of “cheaters” and “asterisks” is nothing but jealousy. Jealousy that their team isn’t the one blowing teams off the field, that they don’t get to enjoy putting up 52 points on the supposedly respectable Redskins.

Does anyone really think that Joe Fan really gives two craps about the "integrity of the game"? You don’t think they’d trade their own team bending the rules for an undefeated regular season and a few Super Bowls?

So I say to my fellow Pats fans: The hard times are almost over. Spygate will be dead to the only people who matter—us Pats fans and the NFL.

For those who hate us—specifically, opposing fans—it will continue to live on. That’s fine.

With each New England victory, their reliance on “cheaters” as a put-down will become increasingly more comical, and will do nothing to prevent their team’s annihilation on the gridiron.

Embrace the hate. We’re Darth Vader. And they’re living on Alderaan.

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