I'm thinking you are mostly not joking. I could be wrong.Bosoxen said:But then what would Pats fans be without their moral superiority?
(Only half joking.)
Either way, I think the focus on the moral high ground is massively overstated. Speaking for myself, if the Pats shocked me and obtained Petersen -- just like they shocked me when they obtained Dillon -- I'd get over the loss of the moral high ground in less than one second. Not that I ever cared about that ground in the first place.
I want the Pats to continue to obtain hard working, football obsessed players who will buy into the team first culture that I believe the team has. Whether they are upstanding citizens off the field or have made serious mistakes in their past is not my concern. That is, unless they repeat those mistakes while on the Pats or you know, kill people when they are away from Patriot Place.
With all respect to Myra, Christian Peter and not drafting Randy Moss, I think that the team and most of its fans couldn't care less about the moral high ground.
References to the Patriot Way or anything along those lines has, I think, much more to do with dedication to winning, football as a whole and willingness to look past individual stats than morality.
All of that said, AP on the Pats is highly unlikely if past continues to be prologue.