The highly esteemed New York Times newspaper will not be winning any Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of the New England Patriots' 45-3 blowout win over the Jets on Monday Night Football.
They actually claimed the Jets won the game.
In an article that was quickly noticed and modified, Times sports writer William Rhoden trashed the Patriots for losing the game (which they won 45-3!) and blamed their demise on the Spygate scandal.
The Times posted the article at 4 p.m. EST Monday -- hours before the game even started -- with the headline "The Day the Patriots Empire Began to Crumble." I realize Rex Ryan preaches confidence, but that's just a little ridiculous.
While the current version correctly reflects the Patriots' rear-end-whupping of the Jets, the previous and incorrect version is still available at the international news-gathering site quEDIT.
"The Jets are in ascendancy, while New England is in retrograde," Rhoden wrote, "The shift was set in motion three seasons ago by a moral misstep by Belichick. The Patriots empire began to unravel the day New England was caught cheating."
Too bad for the Times, but once this game actually started, the Patriots' empire struck back.
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Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who is busy working on his "Patriots Defeat Truman" article for Sunday's game.
