{"id":426584,"date":"2008-05-15T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2008\/05\/15\/pats-fan-turned-the-movie-off-too-soon\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:45:00","slug":"pats-fan-turned-the-movie-off-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/pats-fan-turned-the-movie-off-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pats fan turned the movie off too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Foxsports<\/span> has printed an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/8137630\/Time-for-Pats-fans-to-embrace-the-dark-side\">a Patriots fan who embraces the vile <\/a>thing his team has become.  He says that it&#8217;s great being the evil Empire.  His piece ends by saying<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Embrace the hate. We&#8217;re Darth Vader. And they&#8217;re living on <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Alderaan<\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><br \/>An apt analogy I&#8217;m sure.  May I just point out that in a delicious case of life imitating art, the Empire went down in flames, twice imploding under it&#8217;s own soulless technological weight.  Sure, they had their 17-0 run of Striking Back at the NFL, but that was happily bracketed by losses to the Manning boys which sort of renders the middle stretch dramatically resonant, but ultimately meaningless to the final tally.  I doubt that any Imperial officers were drowning their sorrows after the battle of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Endor<\/span> saying, &#8220;Yeah, well we kicked their asses on <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Hoth<\/span>!&#8221;.   Nice try buddy, but being the Empire is only great when you win. <\/p>\n<p>Ask the Yankees how they like it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxsports has printed an article by a Patriots fan who embraces the vile thing his team has become. 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