Double standard

Randy Moss is absolutely demolished for leaving the sidelines in a losing situation before the game was over. He was demolished by the media and fans to the point where it was a huge reason for the Vikings feeling he should be traded.

Brett Favre leaves the sidelines before a game was over the very next year in a game that was already decided. It is okay, Brett Favre is old and probably couldn't read the game clock anyway.

In both cases I think it isn't that big a deal for the players to be on the sidelines with a few seconds before the game was over, it doesn't matter. If Moss is going to get destroyed over it then Favre should have at least had his name dragged through the mud a little bit.

Coaches on the other hand, they need to keep their ass on the sidelines until the double whistle is blown. It never really entered my mind that a head coach would leave before the clock hit zero and the game was over but obviously I was wrong.

Bill Belichick left the Super Bowl sidelines before the last play was run. Obviously there was a good bit of confusion at the end of the game and you can see if a player or two got confused and headed to the locker room early. The head coach however was told by the ref that one more play had to be run, how else would that play have been run. Belichick still decided to leave the sidelines early.

I haven't really bashed the Patriots the way all the haters have. They get called dirty and classless but most good teams get called that. Hines Ward is called dirty because he hits harder than the other WRs usually do. Chad Johnson or Marvin Harrison would blindside hit as much as Ward does, which is legal, if they were good at it. It keeps the DB back just a little bit more than usual and wears them down. Ward is just good at it so he uses it. Almost all of the good teams that I can remember have had people complain that they do this or that dirty or they lack class. I just viewed the Patriots as the same, they're good so let's hate on them.

Man I do wish Belichick showed just a little more class though. I want to say it is just people hating on him because he's probably the best coach in football but stuff like that doesn't help.