I was so excited for this super bowl after the pounding we have the colts. Beat the Seahawks and all this (unfounded) statements of “they haven’t won anything since spygate!” are over. But now there’s this, and while I think they are telling the truth and didn’t deflate any of their game balls, it feels like people will try to invalidate this next win if we get it. Which is just plain upsetting.

I hear that, but really, those who will invalidate it already would have anyway. Do you think the guy who wrote a book about Spygate and how they’re still cheating was going to be won over by them winning another one?

This is why the NFL’s ruling of it is so key. That will sway the middle in either direction. There will certainly be those who say whatever the punishment is is too light. Then those people will turn their hate to the NFL.

But once the ruling is issued the media fervor will die down and we’ll settle back to our corners of those who like the Patriots, those who hate the Patriots, and those that just know they won the Super Bowl and don’t really care either way.