What does "The Patriot Way" mean to you now?

[Robotech]

Winning championships in the 50's and 60's is meaningless.

JFC, Cleveland and Philadelphia won a bunch of titles back then too because the league sucked balls.

I disagree about the '50s and '60s, though. The league had gotten a lot stronger financially by then, and the level of the athletes had gotten pretty good by then, much closer to what we would expect from a pro football game nowadays compared to what it was like earlier in NFL history. I think the talent level in the NFL in the '40s and prior was pretty low. Except for true star athletes like a Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Don Hutson, and players of that ilk, the rest of the players wouldn't look like professional athletes to us.

 

[Rex Racer]

I disagree about the '50s and '60s, though. However, I think the talent level in the NFL in the '40s and prior was pretty low.

Meh, college level players locked into shitty pro contracts with no leverage in terms of movement.

We'll never know how Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll, Don Shula et al would have fared if they had to deal with free agency/salary cap era that exists today.

 

[Robotech]

Meh, college level players locked into shitty pro contracts with no leverage in terms of movement.

We'll never know how Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll, Don Shula et al would have fared if they had to deal with free agency/salary cap era that exists today.

Yeah, it's impressive what the Patriots have been able to manage. I was just thinking about the talent level in the league. I think it had come a long way and reached a professional grade by the '50s.

 

[broncosmitty]

I’m heading over there now to destroy them and in the process cross off something on MY bucket list.

That sir, is one helluva Tuesday!

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Apparently you all care. I guess like 20 of the Yankees 27 World Series titles don’t count too?

#haterzgonnahate

Baseball? You're bringing baseball into an NFL conversation??

 

[Hank Kingsley]

The Patriot Way.

Sounds like something Tom Clancy would have wrote when he was alive.

Not bad.....

 

[The Derski]

Baseball? You're bringing baseball into an NFL conversation??

Yeah, I like to use facts to destroy my haterz.

 

[Pure Steel]

Meh, college level players locked into shitty pro contracts with no leverage in terms of movement.

We'll never know how Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll, Don Shula et al would have fared if they had to deal with free agency/salary cap era that exists today.

It works both ways....Thank God Noll drafted real well back then and developed the player’s skills.....because you were stuck with shitty players and couldn’t just acquire talent when you needed it....

 

[HammerDown]

Thought with AB's misconduct this is probably a relevant discussion again.

"We can fix him"

 

[FlyerFinFan]

Thought with AB's misconduct this is probably a relevant discussion again.

"We can fix him"

How about MLB reaction to filming in comparison to the slap on the wrist BB and Kraft received. It was ten times harsher...

 

[Rock Strongo]

Knowing what you know now after everything (and it's been a decade and a half of deceit, excuses, murder and rampant cheating) what has "the Patriot Way" come to mean to you in five words or less.

I'll go first.

win at all costs
nothing is sacred
complete lack of integrity
zero character

it means:

always winning. next man up mentality. no one is bigger than the team.

fin

 

[dbldwn711]

“Patriot Way” is the term used for how you wish to receive your happy ending at an Asian massage parlor.

“You want happy ending?”

- Asian masseuse

“Yes please. I’ll take the ‘patriot way’”

- you


Btw... it’s fabulous

 

[RobToxin]

"Goddamn Astros, how we gonna top that?"

 

[HammerDown]

“Patriot Way” is the term used for how you wish to receive your happy ending at an Asian massage parlor.

“You want happy ending?”

- Asian masseuse

“Yes please. I’ll take the ‘patriot way’”

- you


Btw... it’s fabulous

You guys thought mass murder was cool when your star TE did it, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you also find slavery to be "fabulous."

Nice.

 

[HammerDown]

How about MLB reaction to filming in comparison to the slap on the wrist BB and Kraft received. It was ten times harsher...

Absolutely agree and you could actually argue that the decades-long cheating scheme of the Patriots garnered them a significantly higher advantage against their opponents.

You have to wonder how many extra wins this got them.

 

[FlyerFinFan]

Absolutely agree and you could actually argue that the decades-long cheating scheme of the Patriots garnered them a significantly higher advantage against their opponents.

You have to wonder how many extra wins this got them.

NW: filming doesn't help win games

 

[FlyerFinFan]

it means:

always winning. next man up mentality. no one is bigger than the team.

fin

We're all laughing at you not with you....

 

[dbldwn711]

You guys thought mass murder was cool when your star TE did it, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you also find slavery to be "fabulous."

Nice.

The Aaron Hernandez Netflix special is due out soon. It should be good but nothing compared to the Kraft Netflix special.

 

[Gatorchip]

The Aaron Hernandez Netflix special is due out soon. It should be good but nothing compared to the Kraft Netflix special.

The only thing keeping him from killing people at Florida, was sharing a bed with Tebow.

Why was Tom Brady so selfish?

 

[HammerDown]

The Aaron Hernandez Netflix special is due out soon. It should be good but nothing compared to the Kraft Netflix special.

If the special documents how the ex-FBI Special Agent hired by the Patriots for security was fully aware of the extent of Aaron Hernandez's pattern of violent criminal behavior leading up to the mass murder and related this all to Robert Kraft who then failed to act, how will you feel?

Disingenuous response completely lacking any sincerity whatsoever in 3... 2... 1...