Okay, I despise the Pats. I want to puke just from the very thought of them having a chance to win their first SB since 2005. Tom Brady's presence makes me want to punch him in the face. Belichick's nonchalance makes me want to punch him in his stupid looking face. However, that team wins. You can argue until you are blue in the face about how they don't deserve the accolades they amass, but the fact of the matter is that they are in the SB again. Deflated balls, $25K fine, lost draft picks, that's just collateral damage to achieve the results they want to achieve. The Pats have reached elite level of production from their teams through some shady methods. Recall both the tuck rule and the fake injury timeouts. These were not things the NFL gave two ****s about until the Pats put them on notice that it is a shady tactic. But they used the grey area of the law to achieve what they wanted.
The Pats are an organization that will go for broke so that they can be in contention for yet another Super Bowl. I despise the Pats, but I wish the Dolphins would push the envelope so that they can get to where they want. The Pats win. Everybody hates on them because they win in so many different ways. Whether it's shady tactics, abusing the **** out of an opposing team's weakness, grossly negligent chop blocks to take players' knees out, sneaky formation and player eligibility, etc, they find a way to win no matter what. They are not classy in any way, but they could give two ****s because they are in the Super Bowl yet again.
They are not winning solely because of these shady moves, they are winning because they believe in their organization, they trust the players lining up with them, they trust the coach, they buy into the system. Seattle is similar to the Pats in that they don't have a clean reputation, yet they end up getting to where they want. Seattle and NE go into every single down with a "**** you" mentality. They flaunt their false modesty pre-game and then go out onto the field and win at any cost. I don't condone anything the Pats do, but I can assure you that every single Dolphins fan would much rather be hearing about deflated balls when their team is heading to the 8th Super Bowl in franchise history, than having a team that has failed to do anything that remotely challenges perpetual mediocrity while trying to remain classy.
I'm not a happy fan with the current state of the organization when my most hated team makes the Super Bowl yet again. ****ing Pats, but most of all, ****ing Dolphins for being irrelevant yet again.