The Boston Media Is Filled with Whiny Jackasses, and They're Complaining about the Officials

This is incredible. Remarkable. A true feat of hypocrisy the likes of which the sports world has never seen.

Patriots media and bloggers, a group of people covering a team that has been accused of video taping opponents’ practices, jamming headsets, and deflating footballs, along with other chicanery, en route to four Super Bowl championships, have somehow managed to locate a new low today and whine about officiating on extraordinarily ticky tack infractions. I mean, just. read. this. shit:

With 2:49 remaining, the New England Patriots had a chance to get the ball back down seven with plenty of time to score and tie the game against the Philadelphia Eagles during Sunday’s game.

However, Sam Bradford stepped up with a huge play on 3rd-and-11, connecting with Riley Cooper for a 14-yard gain. With the completion, the Eagles got a fresh set of downs, ran the ball once and hit the two minute warning.

But should it have counted? Looking at replays, it appeared that right tackle Lane Johnson moved before the snap, which could’ve been called a false start, giving Philadelphia an even more difficult 3rd-and-16 to convert.

Here’s the play:

But wait, there’s more.

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Oliver Thomas – someone from Boston would be named Oliver – of 247 Sports picked up Kyed’s “reporting” and barely found all the keys needed to eek out this oh-so-nonchalant throwaway at the end:

The Eagles were flagged for a false start just once against the Patriots. The up-tempo offense was, however, penalized six times over the course of the opening two drives alone.

Minor detail.

The Patriots take a gigantic dump on their home field, give up 35 unanswered points, fall behind by three touchdowns, have an 8-3 penalty advantage, and only clawed their way back into the game thanks to an onsides kick and a maddening fumble, and yet local reporters manage to dig up a few split-second potential false start infractions and hint at some sort of great injustice, as if the Patriots haven’t found a rule they couldn’t skirt.

But I guess this questionable non-intentional grounding…

… and blowing a play dead on an “incomplete” pass to Danny Amendola, thus negating any fumble recovery return and making a reversal virtually impossible, were just part of the game.

God I hate New England. If I didn’t have family that lived up there (from Philly), I’d probably just vote to have it forcibly removed from the map. Nice city, but bad people. Awful people. Insufferable maniacs. They’re drunk with sports entitlement right now and it needs to stop.