Is Tom Brady a NEEDED Nemesis?

Are we worried? It's a fair question to ask.

After all, here at HATE, we do ply our trade on a fairly basic concept: The Patriots are worth hating BECAUSE they are very good. It's a simple recipe but one with plentiful spices (i.e. Spygate, Annoying Fans, Elitist Journalists, etc., etc.). Having said that, do we feel that we are enduring an existential threat as a distributor of Patriot hate, because of the catastrophic knee injury suffered by Tom Brady in week 1? If by existential you mean to say that we are threatened like Israel is by a nuclear ambitious Iran...then the answer is an emphatic NO ( the analogy is over the top...apologies, but you are reading a blog that does devote quite a bit of energy to hating another Pro Football team...so why am I even apologizing?)!

Business could very well suffer with Zoolander's injury if you accept as the premise that the SOLE reason for hating the Patriots stems from just how good they are. However, here at HATE, we reject that premise! The fact of the matter, is that you could subtract Bill Belichick, their three tainted Super Bowls, and the top five Patriots that you hate and there would still be ample ammunition for loathing the New England Patriots:

That ammunition arrives in the form of their regional fan base (HOW DOES A TEAM GET NAMED FOR A REGION OF THE COUNTRY???).

The New England Patriots charter could go down in the Rockies and we could find out that Vince Wilfork ate all of the survivors and it's O.K.......there would still be a reason for hating the new batch of Patriots who arrived as fill ins. That reason: Mouthy, Tough Guy, Patriot Fan.
So while it was difficult to acknowledge that the Chargers would not have a chance to do battle with Tom Brady, it's o.k., because there's always next year. In all sincerity, we wish Tom Bra...errr...Zoolander, a speedy recovery so our teams can resume what was beginning to be an interesting little rivalry. Good luck Tom and stay off the runway, you really, really, really, ridiculously good looking male model/Quarterback.

We will survive the loss of Tom Brady fueling our hatred. We are not Heath Ledger's "Joker" who could not bear losing the daily challenges of jousting with Christian Bale's "Batman".



We are not Samuel L. Jackson's "Mr. Glass", who spent years searching for his natural nemesis incarnate; Bruce Willis' "Security Guard" in UNBREAKABLE.

Tom Brady is not the "Yang" to our "Yin"! We will survive.

The Patriots will also finish 10-6 and play the Chargers in the second round of the playoffs.....