The Debriefing: The Patriots are the New Raiders ... Let's Hate Them

Published: October 11, 2007, 6:00 am

Filed under: NFL Fans, Featured Stories, The WordThe Debriefing is a column that runs every weekday at 9:00 a.m. here on FanHouse. It goes deep into one issue and then bounces around to a plethora of smaller ones ... and does it all in a way that will make you feel like the prettiest girl at the cotillion. Bookmark this page, and visit daily. It's hard to imagine now, since the Raiders have been a sad, lifeless object of pity for a couple of years (though they seem to be pulling themselves out of that suck right now), but there was a time when they were considered all that was evil in sports ... hell, all that was evil in the world. They had dirty players, a dirtbag owner, dirtbag fans ... the only thing even remotely likable about them was that they so heartily embraced their own dirtbag image. They were jerks, but at least they were genuine. From Jack Tatum to Lyle Alzado to Bill Romanowski and a bunch of others ... you could go up to them and say, "You're a dirty son of a bitch and

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