I give in...

Okay, I'll admit it. I was one of those NFL fans who didn't think the New England Patriots would go undefeated in the regular season. Sooner or later, I felt, that somewhere down the line they would get knocked off. Someone like the Colts...Eagles...Ravens....Steelers....Giants?

It never happened.

Saturday night the Patriots made history in their 38-35 defeat over the New York Giants.

New England became the first-ever team to go 16-0 in the regular season.

Tom Brady threw for his 50th TD pass, the new single-season TD record.

Randy Moss broke Jerry Rice's single-season TD reception record when he caught a 65-yard bomb from Brady and scored his 23rd TD reception.

New England scored 589 points this season smashing the 1998 Minnesota Vikings single-season scoring record of 556.

With an offense that can score when "they-so-please" and a resilient defense the Patriots are almost a lock-in for Super Bowl XLII.

Yet, despite all of the accolades accomplished during the regular-season, it's just that. The "regular-season". All will be counted as lost if they don't complete the main objective for any club, a championship.

So with that perspective there is really only one number that matters now.

Three.

That's the number of wins before New England can raise the Lombardi trophy and truly be Perfect.

Cold Miami

It's amazing how in sports everything can change in a few seasons, one season. By far the biggest disappointment this season in the NBA has been none other than the pitiful Miami Heat.

Miami have two stars, Shaq and D-Wade, who are destined for the Hall of Fame, but the personnel around them seems as if someone threw the team together by playing a game of darts and landing on obscure players. Miami is 8-23.Just in case you are wondering, that's the second-worst record in the entire National Basketball Association. Miami has looked slow, old, and down-right pitiful. Miami got swept by Chicago in the first-round of the playoffs last year and started this season losing nine of their first eleven games.

Let's not forget that Miami won the title in the 2005-2006 season. But this isn't the same team by any stretch of the imagination. No Damon Jones. No James Posey. No Gary Payton. Now, no Alonzo Mourning.

Will Miami make the playoffs this season? Negative. That at the moment shouldn't be focus. Rather, Pat Riley is going to have to find some new pieces to this puzzled that looks utterly confusing. Until then....

There's always next season.

Heard this Tune Before....

Have you ever been in the car and heard a particular song one on station, then after that song is over, the station goes to a GEICO commercial, you switch to another station but its the same song on. So, you switch to your third option....then fourth......then fifth.......then the dreaded sixth option. And come to find out all the stations are playing the exact song at the same time. You become irritated. Frustrated. So, what do you do? Turn it off.

Six days ago the Mitchell Report came out oozing with Major League Baseball names that had, at some time or another, taken some type of performance-enhancing drug. The 409-page report had big names such as, Barry Bonds, Miguel Tejada, Jason Giambi, and Andy Pettitte. Yet, one name stuck out. Roger "The Rocket" Clemens.

Clemens has seven CY Young awards, the only athlete to appear on five Sports Center commercials and a guaranteed spot waiting on him in Coopers Town. But, not so fast.

Clemens came out yesterday and denied ever using steroids or HGH or anything for that matter. Well, the public has been lied to before. It's like sports athletes have become the little boy who cried wolf.

Remember Marion Jones.

What I'm waiting for is to see the response from the public and the sports media. Will they begin to rip away at everything that Clemens has worked for like they did with Barry Bonds? Or will Clemens get a slap on the wrist?

Cheating isn't new. It's been around for years, decades, generations. So lets not act like we are shocked. The only thing that is shocking is the fact that our so-called superstars are now turning out to be the villains.

Only time will tell to see what happens to Clemens. He denied ever "juicing".

Sure.

But for now, I'm just going to change stations.

Oh look...... Hockey is on.