South Park On Bill Belichick And Cheating

Because South Park is much better than talking about the Phillies pathetic showing last night.

via FH

The whole bit on Red Lasso: Part I

Part II

Comments

[Sen. Arlen Specter]

Brilliant!

[Paul D]

I'm very grateful to South Park for calling out BB like this. Sometimes I feel like I am indeed the only one who cares about this in a town where you're vilified for even suggesting that the Patriots may have cheated the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes since "nobody even cared" - its true. You'd think at least here in Philly where we never win anything that people would be pissed about the prospect of being cheated in the SB. But bring it up and you'll be shot down by angry screams of how the Eagles lost that game themselves and not even wanting Specter to find out.

[johndewar]

Outside of the Belichick references, it's a great "Stand and Deliver" spoof...right down to the bald strands of hair on Cartman's head....

/what's calcoolus?

[Paul]

The edward james olmos impression as jaime escalante is incredible. I think I'm one of the few people under 25 who even realized that was a spoof on a movie.

[enrico]

I'm 27, but definitely got the reference. My AP calc teacher in high school used to bitch about how much he hated the method taught in that movie.

[Kulp]

Paul, it's not that I don't care, it's that I know better.

First of all, whether or not the Patriots cheated has nothing to do with Arlen Specter, and as a taxpayer I would like him to find something more worthwhile to do with his time. With all the problems this country faces, there is no excuse for a United States Senator to waste his time on something so completely irrelevant. It's also troubling when you consider the possibility of Specter's actual motives. Comcast happens to be a large campaign contributor of his...

The fact is, the Patriots violated a small rule to give themselves a competitive advantage. The Eagles do it every time they go after a big-time free agent like Jevon Kearse, LeCharles Bentley, or Asante Samuel by striking deals before free agency begins. That's called tampering, but nobody cares about that.

We could argue for years about the extent to which the Pats videotapes helped them. Realistically, they should have been next to useless, because Tony Dungy later explained the Colts change their signals every week. Now that may be extreme, but with two weeks to prepare for the Super Bowl, the Eagles certainly had plenty of time to do this. It was a no-brainer; teams have been trying to steal signals for years in every sport! The coaches should be prepared for every possible angle.

I can't say the Patriots cheating had nothing to do with their Super Bowl victory. Honestly, though, instead of drinking the Kool-aid like the rest of the world, try to assess the situation from a football standpoint. Even if they knew the Eagles signals, how great of an advantage was that? They still had to go out and execute a gameplan, and the simple fact that they only scored 3 touchdowns suggests the outcome of the game wasn't decided that way.

Even if there was some way to prove cheating directly impacted the result of Super Bowl XXXIX, will that really make you feel better? You already know the Patriots were cheaters. It's not going to change the fact the Eagles were losers.

[Clare]

How do I reeeeeach theeeeese keeeeeeeeeds?!

The Stand and Deliver reference was unbelievable, but I loved the references to An American Tail and Ratatouille in the b-plot about Mr. Garrison.

[Tartan69]

The youtube video is no longer available. But you can watch all the South Park episodes here:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165712/

[Walklett]

They nailed Mr. Escalante's pattern of speech too: "There's the door right there, bye-bye have fun we will missss you." I was rollin.

[Phils Phan]

Has anyone seen a penis run by? Anyone? {Put the episode in a context, man!]