The Rebel Faction

The NFL = The Last Refuge of the Athletic Criminal. Dog fighting? We got that. Wife beating? We got that. Drug abuse? We got that. Thievery, fraud, and cheating? We got those!

Still, I like the NFL. Where else can you watch grown men line up on a field and charge at each other? Well, besides Parliament Hill...

BTW, there's far more criminals in the NBA than the NFL. At least on a per capita basis, considering NFL teams have 53 man rosters while basketball teams have what like 16 players? The NBA is Thug Central. There was one player last year, I don't remember his name, but he was drunk as hell watching a porno in his car and hit a parked car while wankin' it. How does that even happen?

What happened did one of them finally change their name or what? Wasn't one of them the Saskatchewan Rough Riders? I don't remember where the other one was from. In fact, I don't know why I even that much. God my brain retains useless knowledge.

No dude, no matter what kind of season you have 187 yards and 2 TDs is an amazing game, especially in the playoffs.

As for the whole dancing on the field thing, there's a difference. It's in the context in which it happens. I'm sure there are Patriots players that have their certain celebrations when they get sacks, score TDs etc. In the context of the game that's fine, but to go out there after the game's been decided and do something with the sole intention of humiliating the other team, that's a different story.

I don't know where you're coming up with some of this shit man, LT arrogant? Seriously? LT is one of the most humble players in the NFL, especially considering how amazingly fucking good he is. As far as LT saying what you say he did, I don't believe it. I'm as big a Chargers fan as you're going to find, I follow the team relgiously and I never heard anything like that come out of his mouth. At the time the game was played I was still living in San Diego, so I was watching the local news and listening to the local sports radio 24/7 and I never heard anything like that ever come out of his mouth.

Sounds like your opinion about LT is a bit uninformed. But if you can show me somewhere where he was quoted as saying that then I'd completely agree with you that it's a retarded thing to say.

As for the stats I quoted, 187 yards is total yards from scrimmage, rushing and receiving.

In that quote he's not really blasting the ex-offensive coordinator Cam Cameron. The Chargers beat themselves in that game, and it was largely due to coaching. You have an opinion of LT based on a very short exposure to him. Yes, LT did get overly pissed at the end of that playoff game. Why? Because he wanted to win so bad it hurt. Truth is they should have won, they really were the better team. They played terribly and still nearly won the game. LT definitely overreacted, there's no doubt. Him calling out Coach Belichick at the game was completely uncalled for. But I know why he did it, he was taking the loss completely personally. He made a mistake. 9 times out of 10 LT's gonna do the classy thing, in that case he didn't. You're right.

As far as the whole celebration thing, like I said it's all about context and perspective. The game was already over, there's nothing wrong with celebrating, but the way the Patriots did it (not all the Patriots mind you), was sending a big "fuck you" to the Chargers. That's where our opinions part, you're viewing things from one perspective and I'm viewing them from another. I don't have any problems with players celebrating during a game, or even after a game (Chad Johnson amuses the shit out of me). How could you not celebrate such a huge win? I'm just saying that the way they did celebrate it was pretty shitty, and they could have done it another way.

The reason I find all of this ironic is that for the vast majority, I see the Patriots as a very classy organization. As a distraught fan, yes I was pissed to see them spitting in our faces at the end of the game the way they did. But even then, it was only like one player, or a small number of players. But I can definitely see why someone like LT, who works harder than any of us year-round with the sole goal of winning a championship, gets so bent out of shape when your story book season comes to a screeching halt. Did he handle it perfectly? Obviously not, he let the emotion get the better of him, but I think that's part of the reason he's the best player in the NFL also.

I see where you're coming from, and I'm coming from somewhere completely different. So I guess we can just agree to disagree. But realize, these outburts are rarer than rare for LT, like I said 9 out of 10 times he's gonna do the classiest thing possible.