Tom Brady AND Coach Belichick
Follow up to the Tom Brady post.
Ok, his grandmother died and that is sad. Anytime ANYONE dies it is sad, except for really bad people, but then poster-boy for all that is good comes out and says something like ?she?ll be watching down on us? and ?win this for gamma?. Good grief.
And then ESPN had a picture of Patriots coach Belichick and Albert Einstein and asked who more of a genius was. Let me get this straight. While I know the article was tongue-in-cheek, and anyone smart enough to make it out of junior high, which by the way excludes about 50% of Patriot fans, doesn?t really believe that a football coach is smarter than Einstein. They are comparing a man who has won 2 out of 3 Super Bowls and will probably win 3 out of 4, with someone who was the greatest scientist of the last 200 years and realized E=MC squared, came up with the idea and proof of the existence of atoms, invented quantum theory whatever that is, proposed the theory of relativity, contributed to the theory of statistical mechanics and won a Nobel prize for his explanation of photoelectric effect. Now, personally, I have no idea what any of that means, science was not my strong subject on any level, but I know that it probably, just a guess here, adds more to the betterment of human existence than coaching a bunch of large men.
So now I not only hear about the sainthood of Thomas Brady but the genius of Coach Belichick. On the heals of the Red Sox winning and BC (I went to anther Big East school) going undefeated. A very humbling time to be in Boston for a non-Boston fan.
By the way, my rant and rave aside, I am looking forward to the game. For the most part I like the Patriots because they play the way the Yankees play, to win. They keep their mouths shut (please Red Sox fans, no comments here, just this once, you won and let it go), play like champions and act like professionals. On the flip side, Philadelphia has great fans and is a great city (I spent a few months there for work) and I would like to see someone win a championship who has not won in a while (I know, I know, I am a hypocrite). I am interested to see what the Patriots defense does (zone or man to man), wonder if McNabb will stay to his success this year or start to run more and see if Westbrook returns punts, something that could make the game interesting. And oh yeah, I am interested in the commercials.