In terms of the fallout over last night's much-ballyhooed upset, the lone "bright spot" (if one can even call it that) is that I now have an intense desire to read Bill Simmons' next article ... He jinxed the whole thing, y'know, when he referenced the 2002 Super Bowl - and those "smug" Rams fans - in an article last week (which I've been trying like heck to track down but can't seem to find in his archive [sports.espn.go.com]; hmm, perhaps he had it pulled from the site out of a deep sense of shame); didn't he foresee the irony of the situation, where the Pats fans were now the ones puffing out their chests and acting like the outcome was a foregone conclusion? Bad karma, Bill, bad karma.
Of course, the really REALLY disappointing thing in all this, is that I was so hoping to see that old fool Mercury Morris (youtube.com) shut his damn mouth one and for all ... Alas, that will not be the case (rbk.com).
Anyway, seeing article (boston.com) after article (blogs.usatoday.com) written in the past couple of months where Boston was anointed as the new sports capitol of the universe, we now find oursevles in the following scenario:
- The Pats have lost the Super Bowl ... and perhaps more than that, if Congress has their way (ledger.southofboston.com).
- The Red Sox lost out on Johan Santana (newyork.mets.mlb.com).
- The Celtics are losing players to injury left (bostonherald.com) and right (metrowestdailynews.com).
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