Charles Pierce, on the Patriots' dominating performance over the Chargers Sunday night, after a week of the Cameragate scandal:
here was all manner of chortling and gloating about how the team had managed to overcome the stigma of the media's pointing out that its head coach had gotten caught behaving like an arrogant jackass. A team this good, this dominant, got to cast itself in its own mind as outraged innocents battling to stick it to The Man.It was like watching conservatives talk about how Michael Moore was picking on them while they were running the entire government.Will they go undefeated? Who knows. But I bet if they do, the '72 Dolphins will question the legitimacy.