<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The New England Patriots are off this week and I still can't keep them out of the column, thanks to HOF Coach Don Shula hinting that an asterisk should be attached to whatever they accomplish this season due to their cheating ways. He softened that some but it was too late. Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel fired back: "I don't think guys are going to draw on an old, retired coach and old, washed-up players to pump us up." Boo. But because of Don's remarks, the Pats will score a hundred on the Dolphins Dec. 23. Hey, maybe that was his plan?</div></p> Source: Orlando Sentinel</p>
Cheating ways? Did Shula say that? In fact, I listed to a podcast of Mike and Mike and Shula said that his remarks were taken out of context. (Of course, we all know that a reporter would NEVER misquote someone in order to create a headline, right?) Is Vrabel's remarks about an old, retired coach and old, washed up players supposed to be an insult? Those players played in the early 70s. Of course, they are old and washed up. DUH! In thirty years, what will Vrabel be? Not everyone can be a Vinny Testaverde.</p>
Vrabel is hardly a literary sniper I used to have respect for Vrabel like I had for Bill B.</p> Had this years juggernaut been Seattle or Tennessee or whoever, the would have the furor over Shula's rather vanilla remark would <u>not</u> have been news <u>at all.</u>So, there a few of us who are skeptics and/or refuse to be a bunch of kool aid drinking ringkissers... big effin deal. Its a game.</p> Are they so uptight in the greater Providence-Boston area that alittleobjective opinion hurts thatmuch? Sounds like guilt to me.</p> p.s. I have enjoyed this week in football what with the byes, resulting media coverage,and all.</p>
