"A Patriotic Debate" from Tom the Dancing Bug

[FSogol]

[DetlefK]

1. But seriously...

If a german soccer club were caught tampering with the ball, the discussion would be short and passionate.

Followed by about 1 year of bad jokes.

Followed by another 10 years of "Do you remember that scandal?"

Followed by another 10 years of becoming soccer-trivia.

[FSogol]

2. Some extra factors play into this:

1. It happened right before the biggest tv/sporting event of the year
2. It involves a top team.
3. It attacks the massive hubris of Brady and Belichick
4. It allows the mainstream to make "ball" jokes, double entendres, and other ball-related play on words.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The media needing to ignore the craziness of GOP economics and policy is the only factor.

[trotsky]

7. I would modify #2 to say...

It involves a top team that had been caught in the past breaking rules to gain an advantage.

[DeSwiss]

5. Yeah well the NFL ain't quite ''up'' to FIFA's standards of corruption.

- But we're working on it....

[WaitWut]

8. x100

I couldn't agree more with this.

Waitwut (the other one.)

[treestar]

3. lol

that one really had me going there!

[DeSwiss]

6. They've been pissed at Bill Belichick.....

...ever since he snagged Tom Brady at pick #199 in the 2000 draft.

- So yeah, it's the Patriots and Bill Belichick's fault. Everything's the Patriots and Bill Belichick's fault. And since we're letting it all just go ahead and clearing the decks: ''The Patriots and Bill Belichick lost the Dems the Senate too.'' There, I said it.

K&R

[FSogol]

9. LOL, Sorry your team got caught cheating again.