I will open by saying that I don't believe it for a second. The New York Giants beat the New England Patriots fair and square (which is more than I can say for at least a couple of New England's wins this past season!)

People don't think about the correlation between Mr. Perfect's relationship with a celebrity and the fact that he looked out-of-sorts and like a human pinball machine during the Superbowl. Nobody mentioned it. The thought didn't cross anybody's minds.

Yet, people jumped all over the Tony Romo-being-distracted-by-Jessica-Simpson bandwagon and happily and even giddily accepted that she was to blame for the Cowboys shortened season. Post-Eagles loss games featured those ridiculous Jessica Simpson masks. Some idiot even started a ruinromo.com website to prove to the world that he is an idiot.

Why the double standard? Why should the Patriots be exempted from such a blatant misrepresentation of what really happened? I'll tell you what I think.

The Cowboys are truly America's Team and have been for several decades now. True, we haven't won the big one (or a playoff game) for while now, but being labeled America's Team and having the rings to back it up (going back to the 1970's) sticks in the craw of many other fans of other NFL teams. The Patriots are comparative johnny-come-latelies to winning Superbowls.

Despite the Patriots being annointed as America's Team by their fans (something accepted by many people in this political climate), there is still that inferiority complex. I would even go so far as saying many if not most other NFL teams have that inferiority complex, never having tasted victory in the Superbowl much less victory in five Superbowls. (Add one loss to the Baltimore Colts and two to Pittburgh during the 70's and that's eight--count 'em--eight Superbowls out of 42 Superbowls that the Cowboys have played in.) That's a sight more successful than just about everbody else, hence the jealousy.

That jealousy is why people love to see the Cowboys falter and why they so eagerly jump on the ruinromo bandwagon despite evidence to the contrary and why the same standard isn't applied to Golden Boy and his less-than-perfect Patriots.

By the way, don't give me that "Tony Romo hasn't won a Superbowl so it isn't the same thing" BS. If it wasn't for a certain kicker with the last name of Vinatieri, the Patriots would have lost two of those four games.