Patriots provide their own asterisk

In this sea­son of Spy­gate, the New Eng­land Patri­ots seemed dri­ven to crush all oppo­nents in order to prove to the crit­ics that they could win with­out cheat­ing. They nearly did it. But pro­po­nents of an aster­isk being placed on what could have been a per­fect, unde­feated sea­son, should be sat­is­fied. The one loss pro­vides enough of a mark of shame. (Mind you, I firmly believe all the teams video­tape the oppos­ing play callers, which is why the NFL swept this thing under the rug.)

I am a fan of the Patri­ots, and I am sad they lost, but they did not deserve to win that game. With the excep­tion of that final drive in the fourth quar­ter, they couldn’t have beaten the (no offense) Dol­phins last night.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the New York Giants, who played like Giants among men. Maybe now you’ll get your own sta­dium, and you can stop play­ing in Jersey.