I'm glad the Patriots lost yesterday.
There, I said it.
I'm glad they lost because the loss, as sour as it may taste today, protects Tom Brady's legacy. How does it protect TB12's legacy you ask? Great question! And I love where your head is at...
The loss protects Brady's legacy because the New England Patriots would've lost to the Carolina Panthers dropping his Super Bowl record to 4-3. And please don't argue that point. The Panthers are a run away train right now and nothing will stop them. Not even Brady & Belichick.
Reaching 7 Super Bowls is incredible, sure, but losing almost half of them doesn't ring "Greatest of all Time," does it? 4-3 feels sufficient, but it certainly doesn't feel great. 4-3 feels ok. 4-3 feels mortal, it feels mediocre.
As a bonus, Peyton Manning, Brady's comparative contemporary, will suffer yet another Super Bowl loss in Denver dropping his "big game" record to a meager 1-3 while solidifying his historic inadequacies in games when the stakes are their highest.
Subtraction by addition at its finest.
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Quick Thinking
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-- With 2 of the greatest clutch catches in AFC Championship history, even in defeat, Gronk's legend grows.
-- #snowday
-- It would have grown more if Brady saw him wide open in the back of the end zone on that 2pt. conversion.
-- Speaking of tight ends, thinking about what the Patriots offense could be with Hernandez makes me want to murder him.
-- Carolina's success this season has learned me very few people like Cam Newton.
-- And I'm one of the few.
-- Mark Farina's Mushroom Jazz series is worth listening to.
-- Particularly Autumn Evening Breeze feat. Chali 2na from Volume 5.
-- I can't understand how Brady looked so poised trailing by 14 in the Super Bowl last year to Seattle's vaunted defense but seemed so rattled trailing by 5 or 8 to Denver in this year's AFC Championship Game.
-- Same goes for Belichick.
-- I think I'm in the minority when I say, after watching the Making A Murderer documentary series, which is clearly tilted towards innocence, that Steven Avery and his nephew Bobby Dassey are guilty.
-- Like bones in a barnfire guilty.
-- Behind the Curtain Note of the Week: with terms agreed upon earlier in the month, my divorce will become officially official tomorrow morning.
-- Any and all cliche idioms apply to the aftermath, of course: everything happens for a reason, life is too short, stupid is as stupid does or, my favorite, you can't put a price tag on happiness.
-- But you can put one on a person.
-- And what it takes to buy that person out of your life.
-- Ride or die, indeed.
