Hate a loveable word</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <span class="articleBegin">I</span>n case you were wondering, the most points scored by one team in an NFL game is 72.</p> The Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants, 72-41, on Nov. 27, 1966. Washington also tied the record for touchdowns that day with 10.</p> Tom Brady needs five touchdown passes to break Peyton Manning’s single-season record of 49, and 990 yards to eclipse Dan Marino’s record for passing yardage in a season. Brady has not had a 400-yard passing game this year, but Los Angeles’ Norm Van Brocklin once threw for 554 yards in one afternoon.</p> That’s the record. For touchdown passes in a game, the number is seven, shared by a bunch of guys. Drew Bledsoe holds the record for most passes attempted (70) and completed (45) in a game.</p> Randy Moss needs four touchdown catches to break Jerry Rice’s single-season mark of 22. The all-time record for touchdown catches in a game is five.</p> You might be wondering about all this, but rest assured, Bill Belichick is not. He knows. He is a noted NFL historian who once owned the largest privately held collection of football books on the planet. He likes NFL history and surely loves the idea of owning a good chunk of it.</p> The record for points in a season (556) belongs to Moss’ 1998 Vikings, and the Patriots need just 54 more to move to the top of the list. The question is, can they do it by halftime Sunday against the Jets?</p> We know the Patriots will knock the ’72 Dolphins out of the record book, but could they displace the 72-point ’Skins, too?</p> The Patriots this season put up 56 on the Bills, 52 on the Redskins and 48 , on the road, on the Cowboys. The Patriots are 13-0. The Jets are 3-10. The Patriots have won 10 straight at home. The Jets are 1-5 on the road and playing out the string.</p> Under normal circumstances, the Patriots would be a good bet to put up 50 and win in a walk come Sunday. These, of course, are not normal circumstances. This is a game that means nothing and everything all at once, a showdown that has no bearing on the playoff race but might be the most anticipated game of the regular season. People who wouldn’t know a bubble screen from Bubble Yum will be riveted for one simple reason: Everybody understands a little thing called hate.</p> Hate will take center stage this Sunday. Hate will be on the field, in the huddle, on the sideline, in the hearts and minds of every player in Patriots blue. CBS viewers haven’t seen hate like this since the last time Dan Rather was making stuff up about the president.</p> While promoting one of those putrid “Ocean’s” movies, George Clooney said, “First and foremost, it’s about revenge, and we like that.” Oh yes, we do. We like it even when it’s pretend, Hollywood revenge. And we like it when it’s contrived, exaggerated sports revenge, like what the Patriots got on Pittsburgh pinhead Anthony Smith.</p> But this is something all together different. This is so raw and so real you could put it on a grill outside the stadium Sunday. This is Mike Tyson fighting Michael Spinks - if Spinks had told the cops where Tyson hides his drugs. This is Duane “Dog” Chapman vs. his disloyal, dime-dropping son.</p> This is not the first mismatch of the Pats season, but it probably will be the first time they have no compunction whatsoever about crushing the life out of their helpless opponent. Enjoy your day off, Matt Cassel. The Pats beat Buffalo, 56-10, and as far as we know, Belichick likes Dick Jauron.</p> He hates Eric Mangini and the Jets. He won’t admit it publicly, but consider this next time you’re paying your bills: Belichick had to write a check for $500,000 to the league because of Mangini. The Patriots lost a first-round draft pick because of Mangini. The Greatest Team In NFL History gained an asterisk, according to Don Shula and others, because of Mangini.</p> One year after parlaying all he learned from Belichick into a lucrative head coaching job, Mangini turned like a viper on his former mentor, leaving Belichick with a permanent stain on his record from Camera-gate. It was foolish and arrogant for Belichick to continue to use the video camera after he had been warned, but he assumed there was honor among thieves, at least thieves who had been partners in crime for years. His mistake. “He bleeped up,” as Otter said to Flounder. He trusted Eric. And once he got busted, all Belichick could do was learn from it and put a big red circle around Dec. 16, the day of reckoning.</p> </div></p>
Hate for Eric Mangini just proves that the Patriots have been cheating for well over a year. Those who keeps trying to say that the Patriots only cheated for part of the first quarter can't have hate for Mangini because there's no way he could have been the one to blow the whistle of Belicheck. Remember, Mangini had a full season as the Jets coach under his belt at the time of Spygate, so the cheating must have been going on for at least a year and a half for Mangini to have blown the whistle on Belicheck. If Pats fans are going to keep blasting Mangini for finking on them, then they need to man up and admit that the Patriots have been cheating for a lot longer than part of one quarter.</p>
I said in that game they only cheated for the first half of the quarter.</p> As for the other seasons every team could have cheated and if Mangini knew something well before that certain game than he's at fault as well and I would bet money that he tried the same things that he accused Belichick of. Remember from who he learned the tricks of the game.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> As for the other seasons every team could have cheated and if Mangini knew something well before that certain game than he's at fault as well and I would bet money that he tried the same things that he accused Belichick of. Remember from who he learned the tricks of the game.</p> </div></p> </p> So this is a case of "It takes one to know one". Mangini and Belichik are not representing the entire NFL, only the portion that cheats.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> I said in that game they only cheated for the first half of the quarter.</p> As for the other seasons every team could have cheated and if Mangini knew something well before that certain game than he's at fault as well and I would bet money that he tried the same things that he accused Belichick of. Remember from who he learned the tricks of the game.</p> </div></p> So your argument is that because Belichick cheated, Mangini must have cheated too?</p> </p>
Nope, read again.</p> Where did Mangini work before he became the Jets coach?</p> That should answer it. </p>
