I enjoyed this article in Slate on the Patiots and their footbally dominance. I especially liked this passage on the ’72 Dolphins:

“That list starts, as it must, with the surviving members of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, who decided years ago to break the world record for being publicly grumpy old farts, a mark previously held jointly by the McLaughlin Group and any show Louis Rukeyser hosted alone. Bob Kuechenberg’s opinion has been almost universally unsought for more than three decades, and the last person who truly cared what Mercury Morris said about anything was a judge. Yet, all season, the Patriots found themselves heckled by the NFL equivalents of Statler and Waldorf from the old Muppet Show. Go down to the Metamucil section of South Beach, the lot of you, and shut up.”

Slate: Undefeated, Unloved, Undaunted – The Patriots are great. Deal with it.
By Charles P. Pierce