You'd think it would be getting harder and harder to find people dumping on the Patriots. First of all, they're 5-0. (And that's 5-0 in the AFC, not 5-0 like Dallas is, playing against the NFL's version of Div 1-AA. ) Yeah, you'd think that, but you'd be wrong. As the 2007 season rolls on, and you think finding examples of people dumping on the Pats and calling them cheats and frauds would be like looking for a golf ball deep in the woods buried under piles of autumn leaves, someone tees another one up for you (and the Pats) to pull out the driver and stripe down the fairway.

Mike Vrabel can get cut by the Steelers, become a starting LB with the Pats, catch nine TD passes and win three Super Bowls, but one guy you just beat calls him "classless":
"To dive for a guy's knees like that, and almost take out the quarterback? When the game is already over with? I don't know if the refs were kind of lackadaisical because it was the end of the game, but regardless ... if you're going to allow stuff like that to go on ... I thought we're trying to clean the game up. I wasn't too fond of that."-Eric Steinbach

And Steinbach has company:
"68,756 people in the building knew the play was dead. Millions of television viewers knew the play was dead. Everyone knew the play was dead, except for Mike Vrabel, who dove after the ball like a homeless man going after a 20-piece Chicken McNuggets...If the play wasn't dirty, it was exceptionally dumb...."-aol.com fanhouse

Rodney Harrison sticks up for Vrabel? Who is he to talk?:
"The Browns were not happy, and the incident prompted Steinbach to call Vrabel dirty, which prompted Rodney Harrison, an authority on dirty, to defend Vrabel. Without spending too much time thinking about what a close bond Rodney Harrison and Mike Vrabel must share, Rodney Harrison vouching for a guy being a clean player ... well, I don't know if Rodney's too adept at recognizing clean play, as he's never actually seen it."-aol.com fanhouse

Because Rodney is really full of it:
Vrabel could've cut Steinbach's right leg off, punched his wife in the stomach, and then used a branding iron to burn the words "I LOVE LITTLE BOYS" on Steinbach's forehead, and Harrison would've said, "Hey, that's just part of the game." -ibid

Canadians might have 3 downs and 20 yard end zones, but even they think the Pats are filthy little spawns of Satan:
"Whether Vrabel's move on Thomas was intentional or not, to Steinbach, it's yet another spot on the Patriots' once-impeccable image, which seems to be getting more tarnished as the months pass."- The Canadian Press

Vrabel the Impaler has been unleashing his reign of terror forever:
"On Nov. 14, 1999, Vrabel, then with the Steelers, whacked Browns quarterback Tim Couch late in a game at Pittsburgh...Vrabel was interested in joining the team he grew up rooting for, Cleveland, as a 2001 free agent. He was disappointed when then-Browns coach Butch Davis, in his view, basically blew him off."-Steve Doerschuk, The Canton Repository

1-3 teams who were steamrolled by the Pats think they're phonier than a Chappaquidick neck brace:
"When you win, of course everything is great. The Patriots have this aura about them that oh, they're such a great team and have this great team chemistry. When you win, of course everything is going to work. Everybody thinks they're the best team in the NFL, so great." - T.J. Houshmandzadeh

And Internet Cowboys are rooting for...the Cowboys. Both in pointless prose and meterless poetry:
"i want to see how brady takes a few hits, cause, oh.....he WILL get hit.. i like how brady acts surprised every time he gets sacked. he makes it seem like he truly believes it's against the rules to hit him."- guy on boards.espn.go.com

"There once was a team from Foxboro
Whose coach has illegal video
Most of their fans are jokes
On Sunday their team chokes
Thanks to guys like Newman and Romo"
-Guy on ESPN.com Cowboys message board

If someone could post this in the Texas Stadium locker room, it would go a lot further than "Getcha Popcorn Ready." Thanks.