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ESPN pre-emptively avoids fueling “underdog” criticism, picks Patriots to win

Until the last few weeks, it was hard to find a group of more stubborn people than the ones that’ve been swearing since Superbad came out that the Patriots are the world’s worst cheaters, no matter what kind of context or retractions or “You haven’t really thought about this for more than 3 seconds, have you?” comes in their general direction.

We’ve all been there. It usually goes a little something like this:

“Patriots should be banned from the NFL for cheating! All their Super Bowls have asterisks!”

“For the Spygate thing, or the Deflategate thing?