Would you like to see the Pats going for a Three-Peat next season?

[RabidBronco]

We root for our teams every single year, expecting them to go as far as just to make the playoffs, or to go all the way to the Big Dance. It's a matter of standards set by your team.
As a frustrated Bronc's fan, and knowing that my team will probably nose-dive into mediocrity this upcoming season, there's reason still to watch the NFL, since I'm a big fan of the league. I ain't saying that I'm giving up on them, but given the current state of the Broncos, that's the feeling circling around. At least I know what kind of truck will run over me!

By those terms, it can easily be attributed that I might want to see the Pats be dethroned pretty soon, but one thing I've learned from sportsmanship is that you hope to see great stories from any given discipline. I wasn't rooting for the Red Sox (I'm a Yankees fan) in the World Series, but still to see them put an end to 80-something years of frustration, the way they did it, was out of this world.
Did I expect to see Ripken get his feat, as well as Bonds as the single-season HR king, or Tiger winning so many opens at that age? Nope, but it DID happen, and in my lifetime.
Same goes for so many sporting events, at any sport, that have shaped their legacy, for good or disastrous (does the NHL lockout ring a bell?).

So that said, I can say that if my team, or your team, doesn't make it big this 2005 season, it'd be great to see the Pats going for three. If your parents watched the Steelers of the 70's, why can't we watch a dynasty make it all the way for a record third-straight SB win?

[Tarkus]

Originally posted by RabidBronco
....... it'd be great to see the Pats going for three. If your parents watched the Steelers of the 70's, why can't we watch a dynasty make it all the way for a record third-straight SB win?

Heeeeyyyy....

I'm those parents you're speaking of....;)

I'd love to see the Pats go as far it takes the rest of the league to catch up to them. I wouldn't put them in the 70s Steelers class but they are a special team & coach & I enjoy watching them consistently figure out ways to win....

[Alex]

No. Dynasties are only fun when it's your team doing the winning. Otherwise, it just makes the play offs and Super Bowl (or World Series, Stanley Cup, BCS, whatever) ho-hum.

[MountaineerDave]

I'm torn.
I think the people up here will become even more intolerable if the Pats win a third straight SB.
Moreso, since Cowher got his chin out of his ass and coached the Steelers pretty well this season. If my guys have to lose, I guess it's best to the Pats, but... I'd rather not lose.

I agree with Alex on one thing: when the Yankees win, baseball is boring as crap. :)

Dave

[Alex]

The Yankee dynasty was fun for me. I'm sure it was boring as crap for everyone else. ;)

[Noon]

You owe Pat Riley $5 for using the word 3-peat.

Seriously. He owns that word. You have to pay him to use it.

[BurghGuy]

NO!

[coachJ]

now all we will hear all next season is the media kissing the Pats ass....thats all they did this year with the "dynasty or not..." blah blah...just gets tiring

[Anthony]

Remember that no two-time Super Bowl champion has even gotten back there the following year, let alone (obviously) ever having won it - and the Colts will have a huge schedule advantage over the Patriots, as Indy draws the horrible NFC West in the rotation while New England must play both Atlanta and Carolina on the road (and also Pittsburgh on the road while the Colts get the Steelers at home).

And if the Eagles can't overcome the Super Bowl runner-up jinx and the Falcons cannot transcend their own history of never having two winning seasons in a row, Super Bowl XL could end up being billed as the "Commentators' Choice Bowl" - Peyton Manning against Brett Favre.

[Marc]

The Patriots are a great team, but it would be more entertaining if a team like the Eagles won because they have personalities like T.O. and Freddie Mitchell. I watched Belichick and MVP Deion Branch on Leno and both were so boring and not real. Their answers were canned and generic, and I wish they would stop being such robots and show some opinion and personality. Don't be afraid to go out on a branch or take a stance. I'm just sick and tired of phrases like, "we give them a lot of credit, they are a great team," etc. They wouldn't even openly admit they think they can win three in a row.

I respect the Patriots, but they are really quite boring. I'd like to see a new champion.

[RabidBronco]

Originally posted by Marc
The Patriots are a great team, but it would be more entertaining if a team like the Eagles won because they have personalities like T.O. and Freddie Mitchell. I watched Belichick and MVP Deion Branch on Leno and both were so boring and not real.

Marc, you obviously appeal to guys who have stirring personalities such as "Fredex" (such a lame nickname, by the way) or T.O.
While I think some of your points are acceptable, I do not concurr on supporting wanna-be prima donnas (with the big exception on T.O. who did back up his words) who only do good for sensacionalist journalists, just to fill out a few columns on their sections.
Would you like to see a Freddie Mitchell holding up the Vince Lombardi, instead of a Marvin Harrison or a Hines Ward?

Is there a super star aside Brady on that team? The whole Pats team works as a whole, and that's something I respect and appeal to. I just wish the Broncos could get at least one third of the effort and dedication the Pats put on every game of the season.

[MountaineerDave]

With rabid here. While I'm not really put off by the idea of TO winning a title, and while I'd be okay with McNabb (also pretty trite, cliche and boring, btw) winning one, the very idea of an all-talk useless and mostly classless fool like Freddie Mitchell winning a SB is pretty off-putting.

I doubt he'll return to the Eagles.
If I've counted my years right, he's an RFA this offseason, and my bet is the Eagles won't tender an offer to him, in effect cutting him.

Meanwhile, just how fun was having Tyson hold the heavyweight title? It was boring. He entered the ring, killed someone, acted like a maniac before and after, and still, his hold on the title was dull.

Dave

[HibachiDG]

I think Mitchell will be back because the Eagles don't have a blocking wide receiver or a secondary possession receiver aside from Owens.

Owens took away a lot of Mitchell's progression, so I have no problem with Mitchell coming out and saying that. Actually, I don't really think any of Mitchell's comments have been "classless", like Dave is putting it.

Dave, what specific are you referring to? The Harrison comments?

[doublee]

According to Scouts, Inc. Mitchell is still under contract for next season. The only two RFAs for Philly are Westbrook and Ian Allen, whoever that is. Freddie is treading close to being cut loose. Reid has not shown an affinity for keeping guys around who shoot their mouths off in the media, with TO being the exception to the rule only because he scored 14 TDs this year. It is not as though Mitchell has established himself as a vital cog in the Eagles passing game. He was sixth on the team and catches and I would be willing to be that Greg Lewis could more than ably fill his spot.

[Marc]

Originally posted by RabidBronco
Marc, you obviously appeal to guys who have stirring personalities such as "Fredex" (such a lame nickname, by the way) or T.O.
While I think some of your points are acceptable, I do not concurr on supporting wanna-be prima donnas (with the big exception on T.O. who did back up his words) who only do good for sensacionalist journalists, just to fill out a few columns on their sections.
Would you like to see a Freddie Mitchell holding up the Vince Lombardi, instead of a Marvin Harrison or a Hines Ward?

Is there a super star aside Brady on that team? The whole Pats team works as a whole, and that's something I respect and appeal to. I just wish the Broncos could get at least one third of the effort and dedication the Pats put on every game of the season.
It's not so much that I like Freddie Mitchell (I don't), it's that the Patriots are really quite vanilla, from the coaching staff on down. They need a rival who is actually a threat to them.

[soxfan]

I'd love it if the Pats repeated, but I can understand the comments about them being quite vanilla. I think one columnist called them the anti-idiots (the idiots being the fun-loving, cowboy-upping Red Sox).

[Pimpbot]

I'd personally rather see them win it over 95% of the other teams in the league, if my team couldn't win it. I think the Patriots way of doing things and the success it has gotten them, will tried to be copied by many NFL franchises over the coming years.