I'm rooting for the Pats

I know. I know. You think I'm crazy. How can any true Jet fan root for the Patriots in this day and age? Well reality has set in on this miserable super bowl and I have thought about this now a long hour or so. So before you decide to spew obscenities at me or challenge my Jet fandom at least listen to my arguments first.

Argument 1: I have many Giant fans who live in close proximity to me and I must communicate with on a daily basis. Therefore I will get no satisfaction from the Giants ending the Patriot run at the "pursuit of perfection" (By the way I gag even thinking about this. Thanks to espnnews ticker coining this phrase I had to seriously limit my sports highlight watching this football season). Anyway okay maybe I would get a little satisfaction at watching the NE perfect season go down the drain, Brady sad face on the sideline, Belicheck with an angry handshake and beeline back to the locker room. But this would only last for about 15 minutes then I would realize the perfect season went down the drain to the Giants not in week 16 of the regular season but even worse in the superbowl of all places. This would quickly wipe out all satisfaction knowing had the Patriots won I would have to deal with maybe the two true Patsy fans I know and then brush of all those who jumped on the bandwagon, but if the Giants somehow pull this off. I would have to listen to about 900 Giants fans who live in close proximity. They would make claims like "Eli is better than Brady" or "the Pats only won all those super bowls because they played in a weak division". Then I would have to hear about how they pulled off the greatest upset of all time (yep better than super bowl 3). Vomit.

Argument 2: I want to beat the best. Yes I do realize the Jets don't play the Patriots again this year but they do play them next year. I want to be the team that brings down the mighty Pats. In fact I hope they never lose another game until we beat them. Yes I do realize we may be talking years here but I am willing to wait. I am not one of those fans that say hey if my team isn't there I get satisfaction from others losing. When the Yankees lose I'm not rooting against the mets. Well maybe I am a little but not because it will give me satisfaction for them to lose but because I won't have to hear about how great they are from all my met buddies (see argument 1). So there you have it I want the Jets to slay the, no pun intended, giant.

Argument 3: I am not sure if I buy this one myself but I guess I can use all the arguments I can. My father roots in this order when the Jets are out of it, division and, then conference. In other words if there is a team in the playoffs from the Jets division he roots for them (yes even the dolphins). If not he sort of just sits it out and then come SuperBowl he roots for the AFC. This may be rooted in the old AFL NFL days and the part the Jets played to pull the two together. In other words I think my father still thinks it is 69 and the NFC and AFC are two different animals and you are either with one or the other. This argument has one main competitor however the root for ny argument which I quickly throw out the window. You root for one NY team not all of them.

Argument 4: As I get down the line here I am getting desperate. So I turn to my wife. Women don't quite look at football how we do. Well I shouldn't say that some women do but my wife looks at it dfferently. She tends to root for people who seem "nice" and she likes to see "nice" (theres that word again) things happen. Last year it was "nice" that Peyton Manning won. So I go to get her take on this. Clearly all I see is evil. Giants cross town rival...evil. Patriots arch enemy...evil. There could be no nice here. I mean doesn't she see how mean belly has been to Mangini with those handshakes and not even acknowledging he exists for about a year? So her take is... "I want the Patriots to win because it would be "nice" to see history. I mean to win all those games and not win the super bowl would be just wrong". There you have it can't argue with that.


So there you go. Maybe I am crazy rooting for the Pats but the only argument I have for the Giants to win seems to end in a long Winter of bragging so I stand by my Jets and wait for them to defeat the evil empire as I watch and root for our division to win super bowl 42 as it would be sepecially nice for that to happen and history to be made at the same time.

Here's to a better 2008!

 

Thanks statjeff...and can I have some of what your smoking.

 

Agreed. If I lived in the New England area I would not be rooting for the Pats.