Just shut up, Boston, we hate you

Just a quick little note - I read this column from Bill Simmons this morning and was flabbergasted. It's little more than a bitch-fest about the officiating in the Colts-Patriots game, and how the Patriots were screwed by having "95 percent of the borderline calls" going against them.

Really Bill? This is what you use your enormous reader audience to write about? That your favorite football team had bad officiating in their game? A game they won? The Patriots beat the Colts on the road to remain undefeated and he bitches that bad calls made the game closer than it should have been. What a joke. Every fan in the history of the world has bitched about the officiating after every game, and has said the game wasn't as close (or closer if on the losing end) as the score showed.

He couples this bizarre rant with a synopsis of the movie Victory!, which just adds to stupidity of the whole thing. Because the NFL is unfair to the poor Patriots just like the Nazis were unfair to Pele, in a fictional movie. I don't know what can be said about that...

Simmons also went on and on early in the NFL season about how bad Herm Edwards is, and consistently ranked the Chiefs last in the NFL. I don't think the Chiefs are great, and Herm hasn't won any Super Bowls, but worst in the NFL? Herm doesn't deserve to be called out as an especially bad head coach - hell, he took the Jets to the playoffs multiple times.

Simmons just watched Hard Knocks and was convinced Herm had no clue. Because he, as a sportswriter, knows far more about running an NFL team than Herm. Clearly, writers can criticize those who run sports teams, but to rip apart Herm based on his personality and mannerisms seemed rather arrogant and superficial. Herm is a bit strange, but he is a former player and a young African-American man who probably knows how to relate to Dwayne Bowe and Larry Johnson better than most...

That's a whole lot to say that Bill Simmons makes me mad. I don't think I can even cheer for Too Tall P Squared (Paul Pierce) in good conscience as the Boston Bandwagons roll through the NBA.

Update: I'm not the only one who read this column and was wowed by its stupidity. Kissing Suzy Kolber trashes him, and some other blog defends him because the whole point of Simmons is to write stupid columns about Boston (pretty weak defense if you ask me).