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Originally Posted by MOM
It might not be quite as silly as you think. The NFL had been trying to get rid of it's "bad boy image" for a couple of years, and what a Page Ranking coup a Patriotic Superbowl would be! I found this article a couple of weeks ago.....could there be something to this? I ask that you give this some deep thought as I have, and make the connection. Sometimes PR has nothing to do with generating more revenue. Sometimes it can be about cleaning the halo.
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It is indeed as silly as I think. To pretend that the logo would have been anything other than red, white, and blue (And, again, none of the Pats' silver) is to do what many here have done--start with the conclusion you want and work backwards to support it. After 9/11 you don't think the NFL would have used a patriotic logo? We were a mere five months removed from our greatest domestic tragedy.
Further, to pretend that a Patriots' victory would have been any more of a halo cleanser than a budding dynasty captained by a one-time castoff like Kurt Warner is the height of delusion. Frankly, I doubt either scenario counteracted Carruth or Lewis. Further, in case you missed it, foreign events had kind of overshadowed professional football for quite some time at that point.
And the answer to your question is "no". A team named the Patriots winning in a time of patriotism, while perfect fodder for the people who think the CIA shot Kennedy or that all the Jews in the WTC called out sick on 9/11, does not a conspiracy make. As yet, there is still nothing in the way of a smoking gun. You have some calls that are questionable in the Super Bowl...as you do in each and every Super Bowl game. You have a rule that, while obscure and deflating to the Raiders, was absolutely called correctly as written in the AFC divisional championship.
At the end of the day, the conspiracy theorists have proven nothing other than their wealth of free time and abundance of sour grapes.