Well, my fan has been bothering me, wondering what happened to the mighty Bender, so after much trepidation I have come back to make the blogging world right again. In my absence Boston has become the sports capital of the world. The Red Sox won their second title in four years. The Patriots juggernaut rolls along destroying everything in its path. The Celtics have opened up the season 2-0 behing the strength of the Triumverate. BC football was undefeated and featuring a Heisman candidate, but as of last saturday that pretty much came to an end. Also, let us not overlook that the mighty BU Terriers have been picked to win the America East Conference and could get the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. And now, at the behest of my one fan, finally The Bender has come back to the blogosphere!
It hasn't all been rosy on the Boston sports scene. I wasn't around to defend The Pats during the down times back in September when the sports world turned on them out of jealousy and ignorance. I refer of course to spy-gate or camera-gate or whatever we've decided should be the name for this scandalous event. My only real defense of the Patriots for this one is that a) Having tapes of the other teams defensive signals doesn't allow you to know the play call before the play happens, and b) this was a far more common practice than anyone realizes, teams still make these tapes, they just have to make them from the press box as opposed to from the sidelines. So now Don Shula has taken a break from his nutri-system campaign to weigh in on the possibility of a 19-0 run by the Patriots. Coach Shula thinks that if the Patriots do have a perfect season there should be an asterisk next to their record. To me it just sounds like Donny boy needs his depends diaper changed. I think he's a little cranky and the perfect season is his last grip at relevance. Maybe there should an asterisk next to the Dolphins perfect season because Mercury Morris was so heavily medicated during those games. I don't really care what Shula thinks about the Patriots legacy. I know that this is really just a desperate attempt for Old Don to keep his own legacy great, the truth is that comments like this one by Shula will just make it more likely that the Pats will reach their 19-0 destiny. It's them against the world, and The Patriots wouldn;t have it any other way.
The other controversy surrounding The Pats has been the opinion of many observers that The Pats like to run up the score. Gregg Easterbrook from ESPN.com has been especially critical, (on a side note I believe he's going to appear on Oprah any day now.) Easterbrook has come and basicaly called The Pats the axis of evil, he stopped just short of comparing Belichick to Joseph Stalin. Anyway, all these critics should remember, this isn;t Pop Warner. These are professional athletes, it isn;t Bill Belichicks job to stop the Pats offense, it's the job of the millionaires who line up against them. I'm sorry that The Cowboys couldn't stop the great Kyle Eckel and that the Redskins couldn;t figure out how to stop Matt Cassel. It's neither here no there. It just fuels the fire inside the hearts of the greatest team ever assembled.
That's all I've really got to comment on, but I've decided to give a couple links to my favorite viral videos that I've seen lately. First we've got LArry King asking Jerry Seinfeld if NBC had cancelled his show. Jerry doesn;t exactly handle it gracefully, some may call it mean spirited, but I just call it funny as hell. You can see it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfUgVSfKdQ
Also we have my second favorite clip that I just discovered, although it may have been around forever. I give you the techno viking.
That's all for now.
-Bender Out
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