Why is every link in this story broken?

I thought the most untouchable was top wide receiver of all time. Jerry Rice.

He's number two now. Moss is one.

It's stanchion.

I'd take Moss over T.O. any day of the week....and 4 times on a Sunday. =)

Having lived in MN (and being a cheesehead myself) - I couldn't help but laugh in disbelief when the Vikes let him go...

Granted, the Colts-Patriots game a couple of weeks ago was pretty entertaining, and I'm really looking forward to the Packers-Cowboys skirmish, but it looks like the real beacon on the NFL horizon is the looming game between New England and Miami. If both teams keep up their current streaks, it will make for what I am assuming will be the first 15-0 vs 0-15 matchup in NFL history. I think just to make the game interesting, the Patriots should just play Brady, Moss, and their cheerleading squad and the Dolphins should field as many of the 1972 orginal players as possible. If they really want to get to that champagne toast this year, maybe they should make it personal.

Thy name is hyperbole.

Either you're saying it for the attention or you're a rabid Pats fan or you're a fool. None of these options reflects well on you.

There've been arguments here and elsewhere about whether the Pats are "running up the score". Use those other great teams as comparison points. Likely quite a few of them could have beaten other teams by this kind of margin, but they didn't. At a certain point you're going for humiliation and risking your player's health to do it. That's where the Pats are now. Bellicheck is a childish man who feels he's been slighted too often and now that he's been caught cheating, he's going to take it out on the world.

Also please note: he's been CAUGHT cheating, not just accused of it. There are quite a few other football fans I know of that are pretty sure he's still cheating in other ways that had been alluded to in previous games, but not proven the way the taping is. This year, if not others, is tainted for the Pats and that's part of what all the running up the score is about, they're trying to wash that away. It won't work. Even Don Shula thinks this season is tainted for the Pats and if you don't think he knows what he's talking about, you might as well get the Pats logo tattooed on your forhead 'cause you wouldn't believe anyone has an "objective" opinion if they don't agree with you anyway.

Thy name is hyperbole. That's the only option.

If you are a player taking on the Patriots and you don't like them scoring on you at will, then play better defense. Players are getting humiliated? Please. If someone is getting humliated while earning millions of dollars for playing a game, then their self-esteem issues go well beyond anything that comes from Randy Moss scoring his 4th TD of the game.

According to Bob Costas last night, except for one play against the Pats and Vinitieri's missed kick against the Bolts, the Colts would now be playing with homefield advantage in the playoffs and the Pats would be sucking on their fumes.

Yeah, and if Hitler hadn't decided to march to Russia, Costas would be hosting a show called Football Nacht Amerika.

"No running up the score" or something equally stupid in what has become the apex of idiot PC micromanaged professional sports.

Ya know, I've been waiting for someone to try something like this against Brady/Moss. If this *were* the NBA, at some point they'd triple team Moss and say "he's not getting the ball, you can try and beat us with Welker."

I know knocking Moss down at the line of scrimmage is easier said than done. I know Welker, Stallworth, and even Watson are threats. But it's like the NFL coaches are all too arrogant to realize that all Brady has to do is throw the ball up near Moss and he'll outjump the secondary. I don't think Welker can win those jump balls as often.

The Pats realized this years ago when they were tackling the Colts receivers at the line of scrimmage. How come no one else has figured this out? And now that you bring up illegal contact, it makes the question even more important. I had considered it would be pass interference, but you're right. It's a 5-yard penalty.

Yep, you can say the defense should play better until you're blue in the face, but it doesn't change the fact that the Pats are running up the score for no purpose other than making a statement/showing off. Saying the defense should play better completely avoids the point that other similarly talented teams over the years have avoided doing this. Honestly, I'd love for teams to absolutely destroy the Pats from now on once their current run of good fortune is over just to show them that what comes around goes around.

Then again, who knows if they are actually that talented or if their cheating is doing the work for them.

The team in Washington, DC is called the Redskins.

You are so subtle in your protest!

What you call "running up the score / showing off" I call just being ruthlessly efficient. Being that good. And I'm an Eagles fan. I hate the Pats.

New England is up 42-10, 4th and one at the Buffalo 10 IN THE THIRD QUARTER.......Now what would be "rubbing it in" more, going for it, kicking a field goal, or taking a knee?.......IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

On Friday and today, the column has said that the Pats will have nothing to play for after they go 13-0 because they'll have clinched home field throughout the playoffs. Last time I checked (two minutes ago), the Colts still had only two losses. Given that fact, it seems to me that, unless the Colts lose again between now and the end of the season, the Pats need to win 14 to clinch home field, not 13.