Running Up The Score...Thumbs Up or Down?

Well, this past Sunday while the Cowboys were on their bye week, the Foreskins were getting dismantled by New England to the tune of 52-7. And ever since then, all I've heard from those whiny little Washington fans, and players, is that the Patriots ran the score up on them. If you ask me if I think Belichick ran up the score, I would tell you yes. And to tell you the truth, I would also tell you I really don't have a problem with it.

I remember, when I was back at State, Steve Spurrier was coaching Florida and became very well known for running up the score. I remember watching Florida and South Carolina play one Saturday. Florida has some crazy lead, like 55-7 or something, and with less than a minute left in the game, Spurrier called a pass play that went for a touchdown. And he didn't care what anyone thought of it. If you were playing Florida, when Spurrier was coaching them, you knew Florida was going to try to win by as many points as possible...which is nothing different than what New England is trying to do.

Now don't get me wrong. I am NOT a Patriot, Belichick or even Boston fan. I generally have no love for that part of the country. However, all this crap about Belichek running up the score is exactly that...crap. Here is my philosophy about a team running up the score: if you don't want it to happen to you, play some freakin' defense and stop them from running up the score! It is that simple, it really is. I'll bet those sorry Washington players (along with their sorry owner) were sitting over on the sidelines feeling sorry for themselves thinking big, bad Belichick was just being a meany when what they should have been thinking about was stopping Belichick from being a meany.

Yes, the Cowboys lost by 21 points and 7 of those came in the final minute as New England scored a late TD. Could New England just have taken a knee and ended the game? Sure. But that isn't beating the other team into submission. That, in a sense, is giving up. If New England could beat a team by 100 points, they would. Is it well within their right to do that? Of course...just as it is well within the defense's right to stop New England from beating them by 100 points. With all the crying going on, you would think all those pansies up there in Foreskin land were wearing tutus and toe shoes rather than shoulder pads and cleats. This is football...and there's no crying in football.