To All The HATERS

Guess what? I found something to rant about, I’m finally back!

This is about my newly developed fanatic impulses towards...(drum roll please)...The New England Patriots! That's right folks, it's bye-bye Dolphins and hello Brady!

I have been catching heat for this choice of mine since last season, and I am here to say that I am tired of all the crap! I am not a sell out, I am not a bandwagoner, and I am definitely not fickle!

I have been a Dolphin fan since 1995, if you'd like I'll do the math for you, it’s 17 years of sucking. I had season tickets during 9-7 and 6-10 seasons, and I didn’t even complain, probably because I was drunk at all the games, but I digress. Hell, I didn’t complain when they had the 1-15 season! However, this franchise has gotten to a point where it is so obvious that management doesn’t give a F*$%, nor do the coaches, or the players for that matter. It's like they don't care about winning, and they don’t care about building a better team, it’s as if they never wanted to go to the Super Bowl again. We have a perfect season, let’s hold on to that forever!

Well I am here to say enough! In case you haven’t noticed from previous blog entries, I really do believe I only get one life and unfortunately football is a huge part of my life. It’s my favorite sport; I breathe, eat, and sweat this stuff on Sundays. So, why on earth would I continue to punish myself by having miserable Sunday after miserable Sunday, September through December, all because of the stupid Dolphins.

Why the patriots? Been getting that a lot too. Well, because they are the evil empire of football for a reason – they give a F*%$#!!! They have an amazing QB, great WRs, and let’s not forget that sexy TE Gronkowski. But you wanna know what my main selling point is? Bill, that’s right you heard me, Bill Belichick. The Dolphins haven’t had a good coach since Don Shula, and I think that is sadly what I miss the most (aside from Marino). What I like about Bill is that he is not afraid to make the tough decisions, he believes in his QB and his team, which is why he was willing to let the Giants score with over a minute left in the Superbowl this year.

I mean you gotta respect a guy that says OK, we can try to stop Eli and succeed, but then they can kick a field goal and give us no time on the clock to come back. We can try to stop Eli and fail, in which case they get a TD and we may have a few seconds on the clock (if lucky) to get a TD ourselves – OR – We let them score now and give our team over a minute to make a TD, plenty of time for a team of that caliber with a QB like Brady. THAT IS FAITH! But better yet THAT IS SMART! Notice how the RB for the Giants scored, he fell ass first into the end zone, why? Because he knew that the Giants needed to burn that clock more than they needed a TD, Bill knew this, actually let’s give credit where it’s due, Tom Coughlin knew this too (good coach as well).

I will push it a step further and I will say that had Welker, Hernandez, and GronKowski not all dropped passes in that last drive, they would have actually had a good shot at the end zone with seconds to go in the game, rather than having to settle for a hallelujah pass. Oh, and if you go back and watch the last 3 seconds of that game, notice that Gronkowski (could have been Hernandez) sees the ball landing in a huddle of jerseys in the end zone and stops running (or trips, I can’t remember), but the ball gets batted up in the air and lands right where he would have been had he not stopped – case and point – it wasn’t meant to be, but not because that team wasn’t giving it all, at least from a coaching standpoint.

That is what I want, Sunday after Sunday, a team that gives a S%#&, a team that tries, a team that leaves it all on the field. I don’t expect Superbowl victories or Superbowl trips every year, just TRY!

For all of you who enjoy sand in your *&^%$ (you all know the joke I don’t need to insert the real words here), then keep rooting for the Dolphins, but I know better.

I’m OUT!