Patriots beating the Rams - Symbolic of Our Struggle Today?

2/3/02 | Me

[WyldKard]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHA!

In yer face, St. Louis!!!!

(Which makes me feel odd. I used to live in St. Louis before moving to Massachusetts. Of course, the Cardinals were still there, and the Rams were still in LA...)

Still...

In yer face, St. Louis!!!! 48 yard field goal 7 seconds before the end. Yeeeeha!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GeronL]

Very few thought the Patriots would win, even I didn't think so. Although I did think it was the perfect year for a team named the Patriots to win.

Pre-Game and Half-time stunk. Tell Bradshaw to stop singing

[GeronL]

The RAMS left the Patriots with too much time. Who would think that the Rams would get 3 points in the first 3 quarters?

[editor-surveyor]

"Yup! A buncha gun-totin', 2nd Amandment verifyin', 'Dont tread on Me' types beat the tar out of a bunch of Sheep! Perfect poetic justice!"

Have you forgotten that those "patriots" are from Boston, where even thinking about freedom or guns can get you thrown in the slammer?

[ggraziano]

"What is Madden symbolic of as he recommended that the Pats should run out the clock." Right on! I shocked my wife by hollering that the old coot was full of (expletive deleted). You play to win. I loved it, and so did the Missus, coming from the Foxboro area. What a great game. All I can say if you're a Ram fan is: ahahahahaha!

[WyldKard]

The Pat's played good Defense, and the Rams had better offense. Plus, the Rams SEVERELY benefitted against some calls against New England. It took them..what..six, seven tries to get one of those touchdowns, and they were *3* yards away!!

If anything is galling, its that New England let the Rams have all those points to begin with. But they totally redeemed themselves. They won because they wanted it more...

[Jefferson Adams]

Something else that was symbolic of where we are today was seeing Irish communist "Bono" prancing around on the stage at halftime for everyone to admire him and then at the end opening his jacket to reveal stars and stripes in the lining. That foul excuse for a human being hates the United States and everything it stands for, and he had the gall to do that? I almost threw up.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

SAFETY! 2 points, the only way that the defense can score

Today I saw Warner throw a pass that was intercepted and run back for a TD, and it appeared to me that the Pat defense scored 6 points in the process. I'm a Rams fan (could it be because I'm an aries) and reading the analogy introducing this thread makes me feel less poorly about their loss. Symbolism can be important even though it is a coincidence.

[constans]

Let me give my take on the symbolism. St. Louis used to have a football team which left the city for green pa$ture$. The mayor, like too many mayors of small cities, lamented that St. Louis couldn't be a "first class city" without a big, new stadium and bilked the taxpayers for $300 million. Mind you, this is St. Louis where the lack of a stadium was probably the least of their infrastructure problems. So they built a new stadium and coaxed the Rams away from San Diego.

Compare this to the Patriots. A couple of years ago, there was talk that the Patriots would move to Hartford, lured by a sweetheart deal from Hartfort's mayor, who clearly felt that his city couldn't be "first class" (how come you never heard Giuliani declaring that NYC needed a new stadium to be a "first class city"?). Ultimately, in a showdown with MA, the owner of the Patriots blinked, and a plan for a new stadium was drawn up so that the Patriots would stay in Foxboro with mostly private money building the stadium. The public money for the stadium was devoted mostly to highway, water, and electricity infrastructure to support the new stadium-- something, I believe, that amounted to less than 10% of the total cost of the stadium.

In the end, a well-managed team that could finance its own way won out over a city that sent lots of money down a hole in pursuit of "first class" status.

[MHT]

Please tell me more about the RAM symbolism. I have been trying to search the web all night and other than Daniel 8, I have found little. It seemed to me that last week a collision between the Eagles and the Patriots would have been a very special message this year. But how could one have lost? Would that have been symbolic of "half" of our vulnerability? The beauty of the symbolism hit me really hard right in the last minute--but I can't find any real documentation to help explain it to my family (who are Rams fans) and friends. Thank you for your information.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Maceman]

A buncha gun-totin', 2nd Amandment verifyin', 'Dont tread on Me' types

You must be talking about a different Massachusetts than the one I live in.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Bumping all threads that have the Pats as champs!