Officiating

The officiating in the NBA has been utterly atrocious. Every time a star so much as enters the key they are fouled, even if they’re not even touched. It’s pathetic how the other night LeBron scored more on free throws than field goals, and more than half of those free throws he should have never taken in the first place. All I can say is thank God there’s college basketball to quench my basketball hunger, and there the refs are eqaul to all (other than maybe UCLA . . . but that’s another story).

Spygate

ESPN reported today that the “spygate” scandal people just won’t let go may have included the taping of offensive signals as well as defensive ones. Here’s my view, as a die-hard NEW YORK GIANTS fan on spygate:

EVERYONE DOES IT!!!!

Ron Jaworsky admitted that he did it as a player. In fact, the Pats accused the Dolphins of taping them in a game in 2005, but since the Patriots won the league ignored it.

Hello people! The Patriots are an amazing football team. FYI you can be good without cheating. People have taken this spygate crud way too far because they hate the Pats, Belichick, or both. Let me counter some of your criticisms.

1) Belichick wears a hoodie, he’s not formal enough. The reason Belichick wears a hoodie is because he asked the league if he could wear a suit, and they said no since at the time there were no suits made by Reebok, who pay millions a year so that everything worn in-game is made by them.

2) Belichick is inhumane to the media. Let me tell you something: The Patriots went 16-0 in the regular season, and who got the most attention from the media?–The coach! By acting how he does to the media, he takes the spotlight off his players and puts it on himself, helping the players focus on football, and the upcoming game they gonna win.

3) The Patriots just get lucky. They landed Moss who no one knew would be good. They took Brady in the 6th round for God sakes! Let me tell you about a man named Scott Pioli, the GM of the Pats. Did you know that the Patriots have more players that they drafted on their team than anyone else in the league? Also, the Pats have the highest average score of all their players on the Wonderlic test, the test all rookies take when entering the NFL that is supposed to test their learning ability. They also have the smartest offensive line in the game, arguably the best in the league this year.

4) The Patriots run up the score. This is pure BS. First of all, the NFL is a professional league! This is not college where some teams have the ability to recruit better than others, the NFL is arguably the most equal league in the world. Wait, here’s an idea: if you don’t want the Pats to run up the score on you stop them! Don’t whine and complain. Players: you are paid to stop offences, do your job! Running up the score is a term that should never be used in professional sports period. Also, a quick note: When the Colts “ran up the score” in ‘05 when Manning set the touchdown record, everyone rooted for him to break it. When he played in the fourth quarter when the game was over and threw two touchdowns, people cheered, not criticized.

All in all, I know you hate the Pats, I’m not so fond of them either, but to go on and on about how they’re cheaters just makes you look like an uneducated whiner.