Keller @ Large: Facing The Consequences
By Jon Keller, WBZ-TV
BOSTON (CBS) - That was quite the emphatic throttling the Patriots laid on the Colts Sunday night, to the surprise of no one.
And for Indianapolis and every other city where team owners and fans fueled the nonsense of Deflategate in the hope of bringing the Patriots down – only to see themselves humiliated on and off the field – there's a familiar moral to the story: be careful what you wish for.
Jealousy is a terrible thing. Held too deeply, it poisons the soul of the holder and warps their sense of reality.
Red Sox fans know all about this after decades of envying the Yankees – it led to the "Yankees (bleep)" chant at Fenway, which, while a sign of Bostonian respect, is also in defiance of the obvious facts.
The Colts and their allies in the Deflategate frenzy also struggled to find facts to prop up their paranoia. To this day we don't really know how inflated those balls were, or what – if anything – was done to them.
What we do know is that football air pressure never had anything to do with the success of Tom Brady and the Pats. Nor did the presence of an extra-legal camera videotaping the games.
The Pats have been dominant because they've had better players and coaching than the competition, especially the coaching, as we saw Sunday night.
Listen to Jon's commentary:
But still, don't forget we hadn't won it all for a decade before this year. Other teams were competitive. Some, like Baltimore, even developed a bit of a psychological edge on the Pats.
But that's all over now.
The Colts and the other losers wanted to do in court what they couldn't on the field, and now it seems they woke up Bigfoot.
Let all jealous whiners everywhere take note of the consequences.