Super Blog XLII

I'm writing this blog literally at 7:06 AM on the morning of February 3rd for two reasons:

1) Tonight is the biggest game in the New England Patriots' franchise history
and
2) I am too enraged by the sorry state of sports media for me to sleep

Despite going for the greatest accomplishment in sports history since 1972, instead - as of LAST NIGHT - we as football fans are subject to a series of the most absurd stories you can possibly put together. An explosion of Spygate stories, something that peaked at week 1 of the NFL season, have resurfaced the day before the Super Bowl because of a bunch of random people who need attention.

Not only are these revelations completely bogus, unwarranted, and just plain irrelevant to the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI and other games the Patriots were involved in, the timing of these stories coming out is just plain ridiculous.

WHAT POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE does this story have on the 2007-2008 Patriots - what could possibly turn out to be the greatest team of all time. If every spygate rumor ever told is true (which is absurd to think of) then that STILL has absolutely no bearing on this year's Patriots. You think they really couldn't have beat the Jets in week 1, the only week of the entire franchise fucking history when they were actually proved to be cheating? At the very worst, I could care less what Spygate has to do with the past three Super Bowls the Patriots have won, it takes absolutely nothing away from the possibility of going 19-0 this season.

How sad it is that the state of sports media is this pathetic in 2008, that the DAY before the Super Bowl, we have to be subject to a ridiculous outburst of stories about Spygate - from SEVEN years ago no less! You'll read writers like Gregg Easterbrook who claim this was the NFL's fault for ignoring this when it was relevant, earlier in the season; but I ask 1) this really NEVER could have been brought up ONCE during the entire fucking season and 2) in the TWO FUCKING WEEKS of Super Bowl hype, this couldn't come up ONCE until the fucking DAY BEFORE the Super Bowl? You have got to be fucking kidding me. It's times like these, even typing a blog post on my bed at 7:15 AM, where it makes me proud to have absolutely no involvement in the sports media. Because if this is really the story I have to hear most before the biggest game in NFL history, then I've clearly chosen the wrong field to make my living in.