Been here. Done this.I suppose 'tomato can' is an improvement over the descriptor for the last playoff game between the two teams, which was 'fraud'. And so Shank takes his quadrennial shot at trolling and antagonizing yet another professional sports team and the residents of the fourth largest U.S. city.
The Patriots will finally play their first postseason game Saturday night and wouldn’t you guess . . . they are playing a team with absolutely zero chance to win the game.
Enjoying the spoils of their hard-earned top seed, the 14-2 Patriots will face your friends and mine, the All World Tomato Cans, the Houston Texans.
In a game that could be best described as the NFL’s answer to Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve Show, the Texans beat the quarterback-less Raiders, 27-14, Saturday to advance to the divisional round. New England’s dream matchup with fourth-seeded Houston became official Sunday when Pittsburgh routed the terrible Dolphins.
This could not have worked out better for the Patriots.
The 2012-13 New England Patriots just became the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.The words are a bit different, but you've read it all before.
Could this get any easier?
I mean, seriously? The planets are aligned and the tomato cans are in place. The fraudulent Houston Texans are the only team standing between the New England Patriots and a trip to the AFC Championship game. All the Patriots have to do is beat the terrible Texans. One week from Sunday. At Gillette Stadium.
Pass Go and collect $200. The Patriots are in the AFC title game.
To anyone from the Houston area reading this - Shank's just trying to piss you off; this has been his M.O. since I got out of high school thirty-five years ago. Don't let him piss you off too much.
Thanks for the shoutout. Don't worry, I included yesterday's column in the tally (granted, under 2016, because, um, it's the same season, I guess). In fact, that's what got me to look at the numbers, because the Globe put it in the headline and on the home page, where even non-Shaughnessy readers like me would see it.
ReplyDeleteSoon, 135 Morrissey Blvd will be condos - it's a good thing.
ReplyDeleteYep. Shank thinks Boston is such a hot town even though its the suburbs and the places away from Boston that give New England charm. Why he has to attack Houston is baffling beyond an ingrained sense of entitlement - always a sign of a lack of humanity.
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