I have a like, love and hate relationship with Boston professional sports teams. I like the Celtics, I love the Red Sox and I hate the Patriots. I always have and most likely I always will.

I seriously doubt any of the New Englanders that were walking around in a stupor yesterday morning mumbling incoherently “Why us why now?” stopped to seriously see how arrogant this team has been leading to their colossal defeat.

While the team was practicing the owners were applying for the trademarks to “19-0″ and “19-0 The Perfect Season,” and possibly other winning words to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese better sell like a motherfucker to brighten the spirits of the team owners.

The Boston Globe was pre-selling a book via Amazon and other outlets titled “19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots.” It has since been pulled from Amazon.

Tom Brady laughed at the notion of his team only scoring 17 points, I wonder if he was laughing Sunday night knowing they scored less than that.

Is that arrogant enough? But honestly the real arrogance committed by the Patriots was the belief that “Spy Gate” was over and done with. Imagine the shock Belichick must have felt when the Boston Herald reported they have a source about a certain taping of the final walk though the Rams did before they faced the Patriots in 2002.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will reopen an investigation into the Patriots video practices if new evidence supports it, a league spokesman said yesterday prior to the team’s 17-14 Super Bowl loss to the Giants.

Of course Goodell will after all when the senate calls you better run. I’m not saying that the Patriots did or didn’t tape the walk through, however I will say that so far it’s been a piss poor investigation by the NFL.

Imagine if the police asked a drug dealer to turn over all his dope without actually searching for it or questioning known associates. The NFL supposedly confiscated all the video they could find at the team’s headquarters without thinking that maybe just maybe there was more video that was not on the site. Maybe if they did some asking or checking into past Patriots employees they wouldn’t be so embarrassed as they are now.

While it’s true the NFL police might not have found anything worthy as the latest allegations reveal, they could at least say it was investigated at the time.

The Herald reported Saturday that a Patriots employee filmed the Rams’ final walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI, though it’s unclear if they were instructed to shoot the video, or if the coaches used the information. The Pats deny recording the walkthrough and the league said it didn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing when it investigated the rumor in the fall, in part because the team told them it wasn’t true.

“People are implying there was some type of cover-up, where I think it was exactly the opposite,” Goodell said. “We were the ones who brought these facts to light. We were the ones who took the unprecedented discipline to send a very strong message to the people that we don’t violate the rules. Every team on a level playing field, I think that’s what we want.”

In a sense I agree with Goodell, except when he states “we were the ones who brought these facts to light”, because in reality it was the press that shed light on this. And I still think the punishment was a joke, and if and I really mean “if” these latest allegations prove to be true then the joke will be on you Goodell and you alone.