Today is the fist day of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and here in Olympia it dropped like a well-thrown pass to an open Seahawks receiver. I shivered in my bed last night beneath two heavy blankets fearing for the impending cold that will soon be upon all of us. The only thoughts that kept me warm were of the money I won that day betting on the NFL.

What a week!

Certain games went as expected like the routine stomping of the Houston Texans by the Tennessee Titans and the unstoppable Dallas Cowboys solidly defeating the Packers at Lambeau, but who would have guessed that the lowly Miami Dolphins could topple the once-proud New England Patriots in Foxborough? I am forced to eat my words. Last week I proclaimed proudly that the Patriots “could field 7 men and still beat Miami by a touchdown”. How wrong I was. I’ve also stated in the past how the Patriots don’t need Tom Brady to win; how he is just another cog in the merciless unfeeling football machine that is the New England Patriots.

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I caught this article online:

HOBBS SAYS PATS’ FANS TURNED ON TEAM TOO QUICKLY

Professional athletes usually choose to hit the mute button in their minds to block out the boos of a fickle fandom. But cornerback Ellis Hobbs had the volume turned up Sunday, when the New England Patriots were booed — and abandoned — by the fed-up Foxborough Faithful during a shocking 38-13 loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Tuesday, Hobbs took the opportunity to respond to the fans - and media - he felt overreacted to one poor performance by the Patriots, who sustained their worst loss at Gillette Stadium since it opened for business in 2002. The loquacious cornerback said the behavior was a testament to how spoiled fans have become by the team’s success and how quick they are to panic.

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