Ben Watson

No matter what happens, the man can hold his head high. Helluva play.

Also have a dirty little secret to cop to. I'm rooting for the Pats (hope Coz doesn't kill me.) Why? Sorta for the same reason I'm rooting for the Colts to lose. (If the two play head-to-head though, I'll be rooting for the Colts, which tortures to whole "logic.") (More after the jump)

That said, I'd be lying if I said I didn't grin just now when The Great Tom Brady and The Great Adam Vinatieri fucked up.

UPDATE: The game is over and Phil Simms is a douchebag. "They went down like champs?" Really? Pick in a huge spot basically taken back to the house? "All-world" kicker missing essentially a gimme? Mr. Jack-Of-All-Trades fumbling a punt in another huge spot? Granted, they didn't lay down or anything, but I fail to see how that's going out like "champs." Perhaps Steve Young was onto something.

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[Nominal Me]

That was a real "Don Beebe" moment.

[Coop]

Simms also had the gem: "Bailey wasn't showboating, he was just tired." He was a pro athlete, 95 yards into 100 yard dash.

Pats didn't go out like champs. See Jackie's points, if you didn't see the game with a pair of human eyes. Can't say the Broncos played a spectacular game. But they didn't make mistakes and capitalized on the ones the Pats made. Much like the Pats of yesteryears.

Most Pats fans knew deep down the season was over when Rodney Harrison went down. The rest was just weeks and weeks of denial.

The silver lining for us Pats fans -- is that we likely won't have to endure those atrocious fuckin' "Diet Pepsi Machine" commercials next year. I'm having a tough time picturing the Pepsi exec at the pitch meeting saying, "Diet Pepsi Machine as a football player....I love it! Go with it!"