Why was LT so pissed off during the post game interviews?

LT is a sore loser? Give me a break.

Can you tell me how most playoff games end? I'll tell you, it usually comprises of the head coaches shaking hands at mid-field and players from opposing teams congratulating each other and saying "good game" to each other and possibly "good luck next season" type stuff.

How did this game end? Players throw their helmets before the game is over and then the entire Patriots team meet at mid-field and mock their team/players on their home turf. No congrats to LT or his teamates, nothing. I could kind of see this if there was some bad blood between the 2 teams but there isn't.

What the Patriots did was disrespectful, period. It's disrespectul to the other team and especially dispresctful to the MVP, who also happens to THE classiest player in the NFL.

 

To the Pats bashers: Was Mario Williams classless for imitating the Giants' "jumpshot" sack gesture earlier in the season? Just curious.

 

Second question, is Deke classless for continuing to do the wagging finger?

 

Listen to what Deion Sanders had to say about Tomlinson...he hit the nail on the head. LT isn't mad about some inane dance; he's mad because his team was the #1 seed, hadn't lost at home all season and now they are going to watch the rest of the playoffs like the rest of us - on their TVs in their houses.

 

i thought this was a really good analogy. in both situations it was a player copying an opponent's celebration. in both situations, the fans of the opponent were upset and cried foul.

 

I think it's interesting that when the Pats celebrate/dance, its almost invariably to mock other players' dances and style. Rarely do you see them come up w/ something to celebrate themselves. Whether or not you think what the Pats did was classless, I think this was another piece of evidence to suggest that one of the reasons the Pats are so successful is that they're a team full of angry guys w/ chips on their shoulders.

While their success this decade is unmatched, I kind of feel as though they still hold a lot of animosity for the individual stars in the league. The way they reacted to the Rams, T.O., Peyton Manning and now Shawn Merriman, leads me to believe that they use their envy of those guys as fuel for their play. Obviously its working.

 

Except Mario Williams and the rest of the Texans didn't do it after the game when Tiki Barber was going to congratulate them.

 

so, in other words, there is a time and place for showing up your opponents, acting like a complete buffoon, and rubbing your successes in their faces, and it is during the game.

AFTER the game however, is just completely despicable and unacceptable.

 

absolutely.

 

exactly. he's a sore loser, and he ain't as classy as everybody wants him to be (or as he said he is in his postgame press conference).

 

I'm arguing that acting like a complete buffoon and rubbing success in the opponents' faces during the game is done by nearly everyone on the defensive side of the ball. It's typically not done by a large number of the team when a class act is walking up to you after the game to congratulate you.

 

How many times do you ever see a pick get turned into a fumble on the very same play. Once or twice out of hundreds. Everything has to happen just right, like the returner(McCree) not tucking the ball away as he should. It was a smart chance by brown, but the ball should have been so secure they would never have gotten to it even with a ton of swipes at it. Or he could have just gone down, and all the patriots could have done was touch him down. They got lucky he didn't do those things(or knock it down), he ran with it trying to secure it while running, the swipe worked, the ball stayed in bounds, and they recovered.

Most interceptions do not turn into fumbles by the returnee, thus it was incredibly lucky.

 

How in the world is he a sore loser when his first reaction after the game was to go congratulate the team that just upset his team on their home field? Are you saying you'd be perfectly calm and understandable if that happened to you? You're the one whining about Merriman and every other player doing that after a good play, yet LT is a sore loser for being upset about a group of people doing what you consider the same exact thing?

I guess you being upset at Merriman makes you a sore loser.

 

how is a sack dance classless in the 1st place? It's no different than an end zone celebration. But players know stomping on the logo at midfield is classless, it's an unwritten rule kinda deal. And for a team that prides itself on just being "business like" it's childish.

Lastly, LT was mad about losing i'm sure, but you can be mad at both things at the same time, believe it or not(to all those thinking he can't)

 

Because they lost

 

I'm guessing had they won, the entire team wouldn't have celebrated on the Giants logo, making fun of the jumpshot while Tiki Barber was trying to congratulate them.

 

I think you have a very loose definition of the word lucky, one that tries to excuse poor play and decisions as just some mysterious force that no one has control over

were the Pats "Lucky"? no, I don't think so, they took advantage of poor decisions by the Chargers.

 

How do you compare a celebration of a play during a game to people mocking you on your homefield when you come up to congratulate them?

 

i am saying that the chargers have no right to call the patriots classless when they spend the whole season rubbing sacks and tackles in their opponents faces. you reap what you sow.

LT got a big, humbling dose of reality, and the **** that his classless teammates have talked and demonstrated all season was spit right back in their faces in a big way, and LT couldn't take it.

for him or his teammates to call the patriots classless is a complete joke. they can dish it but they can't take it. it's as simple as that.

 

You're kidding me right. Even with him not having the ball being tucked away perfectly, how many times on that exact same sequence do you see the returner stripped? Then the ball has to stay in play, and the patriots have to recover. It was a good play by brown, but it was very much luck that it broke the way it did for New England.