COMMENTARY
It’s been a week since the Patriots won the Super Bowl, and looking back now, with the dust about settled, we can safely say that Patriots hate is alive and well outside of New England.
Super Bowl LI brought a full moon’s worth of of howling animosity like we’ve never heard, and Pats fans have heard a lot. But nothing — not years of “You’re just lucky!” followed by years of “You’re just cheaters!” — prepares a human for the likes of “You guys are white supremacists!” Everything really escalated down in Houston. It was the perfect storm of football insanity amid this tidal wave of political and social chaos.