This “everybody hates the Patriots” business has become as predictable as the spring thaw, and as oh-here-we-go-again as the weekly Max Kellerman news bulletin that Tom Brady is about to fall off that cliff.
What to do about these non-stop affronts? If you’re a seasoned Pats fan, you roll your eyes, you clutch your pearls or you puff out your chest and point to what by now is a familiar roadside billboard: “They hate us because they ain’t us.”
Sorry, but that line is about as original as the next Batman movie, only with Alex Guerrero co-starring as Alfred the butler.