I’ve been a Patriots fan for a really long time. I was throwing my hands up to signal touchdowns in front of the TV before I could crawl. One thing I’ve learned throughout my tenured experience as a football enthusiast is that in football there are absolutely no guarantees. Anything can happen on any given Sunday. The odds and pre-game projections are never definite. Sometimes a less threatening team comes along and knocks off a team that is sitting pretty on top of the standings. Sometimes David does in fact triumph over Goliath. 
However, and unfortunately for the Dallas Cowboys, sometimes the odds turn out exactly as expected. Sometimes the big bully team kicks the less successful team back down to their place. Sometimes Goliath beats David within an inch of his life because he is angry at the rest of the NFL for accusing him of a crime in which he had nothing to do with.
Part of me felt bad for the Cowboys going into this game. All the Cowboys do year in and year out is disappoint their fanbase. They just lost their two best offensive players to injuries in previous weeks. Just when it seemed like nothing could be going worse in Dallas, the “Kill Everybody Tour” rolled into AT&T Stadium.
In case you haven’t heard, the “Kill Everybody Tour” is a term that has been used in the media to describe the dismantling of opponents done by the New England Patriots throughout the first few weeks of the season.
Like I said, I did have a little bit of sympathy for the Cowboys going into this past week. That is, until I heard the comments dished out by Cowboys Defensive End Greg Hardy before the game.
Hardy, who was making his return from a 4-game suspension due to issues regarding domestic violence, took shots at Tom Brady, the Pats, and even made some eye-opening remarks about Brady’s supermodel wife, Gisele Bündchen.
AP Photo / Brandon Wade
Now, I wouldn’t have cared that much if Hardy had just gone after Brady. Everybody and their brother has tried to take shots at the king at one point or another. That’s just the nature of the game. But when someone who has just served a suspension for domestic violence takes a shot at another competitor’s wife, I personally feel that he deserves to have his teeth kicked in out on the field. And that is exactly what Brady did. I believe the phrase is “if you come at the king, you best not miss”. Well, I think in this case it was more like, “if you come at the king’s wife, your team is going to lose by 30”.
There were a couple of hiccups early in the game on the offensive line, but at no point before or during that game was I worried that New England would do anything but bury the Cowboys in the ground. It was an excellent effort from a team that is currently clicking on all cylinders. Brady is hot. The defense is hot. The coaching staff is hot. Everything about this team is on fire and I love it.
And the best part…next week the “Kill Everybody Tour” rolls through Indianapolis for a massacre against our good friends the Indianapolis Colts.
It’s good to be a Pats fan.
Jake can be contacted at jcoughlin@kscequinox.com
