The New England Patriots have become a made for T.V. prime-time event as they have raced out to a 13-0 start in the NFL. After attacking the off-season like Tom Brady attacks over-matched defenses by re-shaping their roster, the Pats are now poised to attack the record books. Both New York teams will have the chance to keep New England from going undefeated in the regular season.

The New York Jets may be to blame for the historical run that is in the making, and the Pats will be out for revenge and victory. After the Pats opened the season by dismantling the Jets in New York, second year head coach Eric Mangini turned snitch on his former mentor from New England, Bill Belichick. Mangini sparked the spygate controversy that tarnished the Pats legacy. New England was called out as cheaters for stealing signs by use of videotape, and was thusly punished by the league. Unfortunately for the ingrate weasel Mangini, that has been the only thing the Jets have been remembered for this season.

The so-called ‘Man-genius’ has been reduced to ‘Boy-gini’ status as his hapless J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets! have failed to build on their over-achieving season from last year. In his first season for the Jets, Boy-gini led New York to the playoffs, while taking advantage of one of the weaker schedules in the league. This season the team has struggled mightily, so much so that long-time starting quarterback Chad Pennington has been benched, and most likely will be shipped out of town. Boy-gini will lead his team into Foxboro with a 3-10 record, and hope to get out alive without allowing the Pats to run up the score to embarrassing levels.

While no one in the Pats locker room will say so, the discrediting of his great Super Bowl teams that was done during spy-gate has led the ‘Mad Genius’ Belichick to drive the team to perfection. The team has been accused of running up the score on more then one occasion this year, as the combination of Brady and Randy Moss has clicked from game one. Both players are in line to set all-time records for touchdowns in a season, as the team moves in on becoming the highest scoring one of all-time.

New England has for the most part been an unstoppable juggernaut, winning their games by more then twenty-points a game. They have shown their grit on three occasions, coming from behind against the defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts in Indy. Facing a ten-point deficit in the fourthquarter, Brady and the bunch showed poise by rallying in the place that they had suffered their most bitter defeat in during the AFC Championship game last season.

Surprisingly, the Pats had to overcome a fourth quarter-deficit at home against the upstart Philadelphia Eagles, and on the road against the trash-talking Baltimore Ravens. Those two back-to-back close calls had sports analysts pouncing, and the Pittsburgh Steelers guaranteeing victory against the weary Pats. The Eagles and the Ravens put out a blueprint for success, and the Steelers were supposed to use their number one ranked defense to end the perfection. The high-flying Patriots responded to the challenge by pouncing all over the Blitzburgh guarantee en route to a 34-13 route.

Now it will be up to the J-E- T-S, or the G-Men to do what all the Patriot haters are hoping can be done. The talking heads at ESPN have done their best to keep the spy-gate controversy alive, and sports headlines throughout the country have referred to the un-likeable Belichick as ‘Beli-cheat’. The so-called football experts have stated that the Pats will be undone by their lack of a running game, never mind the fact that they have mastered the screenplay as an alternate to the run. The Patriots have old, and slow linebackers and a questionable defense they say. The Pats are third in the league in points allowed.

Being disrespected is nothing new to the Patriots, and neither is long winning streaks. The Pats ran off twenty-one straight wins over two seasons during their back-to-back Super Bowl titles. When they did that, the Pats were labeled as a team with no-star talent who does just enough to get by. They were lucky. Now they dominate teams with loads of talent, and they are classless for running up the score. When they won their first Super Bowl against the heavily favored St. Louis Rams, it was poor coaching by Mike Martz that led to the major upset, not a great defensive effort, solid offensive performance, and great coaching by the Pats that got it done. No respect.

Boy-gini and the Jets will get no respect from the ‘Mad Genius’ and the Pats. As the old saying goes, ‘nobody likes a tattletale.’ Especially when the snitch is a rat that calls out the man who gave him his career. Now Boy-gini will have to endure more then just a cold handshake by his mentor, he will have to endure a sixty-minute beat down.

The New York football Giants will get their chance to knock off the Pats in the final week of the year. The G-Men and the Pats will both have the their playoff tickets punched by then, and the game will have little meaning. Both teams will be faced with playing against history, or playing in preparation for the playoffs. The G-Men have been led by their defense this season, and they will need a strong showing if they want to slow the Pats down. There will be a raucous Giants Stadium crowd on New Years weekend that will be cheering the G-Men on, and hoping both teams play their starters and history is made one way or the other.

The Miami Dolphins will have their chance too, which would be the ultimate irony. The Dolphins are the only team in history to finish a season undefeated, doing so in 1972. Their outspoken team routinely roots for the last undefeated team of each season to lose so they can pop their champagne corks. This year, the once proud Dolphins will most likely enter the game winless. History could be done and undone in one fell swoop. Maybe the loud-mouthed Mercury Morris of the ’72 Dolphins should suit up if he wants to keep the Patriots off his block.