Wow, you're making a lot of assumptions there with little to no proof.  Bruschi is a known steroid user?  Maybe in your circle of friends, I don't think there's ever been any proof of that though.  You dig up the documents though if you've got them.  Signing players of opponents and then cutting them the next week?  Name me one time they did that.  They had Keith Byars on their team years ago who knew the Dolphins audibles from his time with them.  A) If you're not smart enough to change the offensive audibles when you know a guy on the other team knows them, you deserve to lose.  Dave Wannstadt was a pretty good loser.  B) They didn't cut Keith Byars the next week.  He played the rest of the season for them.  I think Harrison is overrated as a DIRTY player, but he was voted the dirtiest so I may have trouble defending that.  I never considered Junior Seau dirty, but whatever.  Belichick, while he appears to be a dick to the media and such, has a great deal of respect for the game of football and the rest of the coaching fraternity.  He has high praise for Mike Shanahan in particular.

You hate the Patriots because they're good, I get it.  So every little thing they do is amplified.  You should be complaining more about teams like the Cincinatti Bengals, who have some serious bad moral character issues.  Maybe the Ravens, wasn't one of their guys up on murder charges once?  There are guys who've done much more terrible things than the Patriot players you mentioned.  Spygate, fine, you wanna bitch about that you're entitled, but don't make accusations and state them as fact.

Brady's MRI is scheduled for sometime today, but it certainly looks like it's his ACL, and possibly worse, could be MCL too.  He's most likely done for the year, for sure.  I wouldn't be so quick to bury the Pats though.  They do have a weak schedule and they still have PLENTY of talent on their roster.  Sure they lost the best player in the league, but I'm also sure that the team will rally around this.  They've always done so in the past.  Players will elevate their games to a different level.  I still think they're a LOCK for the playoffs.  10-6 is a respectable prediction in my mind. 

And CC, football is a dirty game.  We're not playing tiddly winks here.  Cheap shots happen all the time in every game.  EVERY team has "dirty" players.  To single out the Patriots is ridiculous in saying they're a dirty team.  If you're not a dirty team, you're a bad team, bottom line.  You've got to play with an edge.  I understand the hatred for the Patriots.  Everybody hates a winner.  I don't think I've ever taken the stance where I wished players injuries though.  I hate the Yankees, but I've never been gleeful over Mariano Rivera getting injured.  So if it makes you happy to wish cancer on Bill Belichick, then so be it.  I choose not to take that route.

This certainly makes the season a lot more interesting.  We'll see what happens.

I tried to tune in for a bit last year and I just couldn't stomach it.  It was awful.  I think it was last year at least, the one Diddy hosted.  They were at various locations, it was a hip hop fest.  Oh it was horrendous.  I couldn't watch the complete show live.  I'll record it and skip to the good part(s). Slash, Kid Rock, check and see how much of a mess Britney is THIS year, Katy Perry to see if she kisses a girl, and if she likes it, that's about it.

I am excited about Death Magnetic.  I've resisted temptations to download it, I plan to wait till next Friday.  The 3 songs I've heard I'm quite pleased with though.  Getting back to their roots and away from that St. Anger crap.  Here's the thing, if GNR had stayed together it's possible they could've put a load of crap like St. Anger out.  Not that it does anything to tarnish Metallica's rep, but maybe they should've sat that one out, taken a few years off.  It certainly sounds like they're back with a vengeance with this one though.

Yeah I'll try and still tape it.  Although MTV replays the thing all month long so not sure how important it is to tape.  But it'll be cool to see Slash present at the very least.  I don't plan on enjoying much more than that though.