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| Ladies and Gentelmen, Alberts 2011 Patriots Highlights: That one time he was on the field. |
Boston - The Grand Experiment is over, having lasted 102 days. That’s 30 days longer than the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries marriage, for those of you scoring at home. Coach Bill may or may not be familiar with the Kardashian clan, but he is familiar with the National Football League, and what he did by trying to extract Albert Haynesworth’s legendary raw talent on behalf of the New England Patriots was a reasonable gamble. Coach Bill gave the Washington Redskins a fifth-round draft pick, and he did not take on a great deal of salary. If it worked out, great, the Patriots had stolen one. And if it didn’t, it was pretty much going to be no harm, no foul. The option was always there to dump Mr. Haynesworth if things did not work out. And so they have.
3 Total Tackles, 0 Sacks, 0 Impact.
As a defensive lineman you can almost just fall forward 3 or 4 times a game and get credited with an assist on a tackle, that's how damning Fat Albert's season stat line is.
Sick career Albert, time to call it a wrap though, because you’ve just pulled off the impossible, you just got every single Pats fan on the same page, a feat that in all my time, has never happened before for Boston sports fans of any of our beloved teams.
Simply put, we like to argue, and we’ll argue about anything and everything sports related. You don’t support not one, but two of the top sports radio stations in the country without an irrationally argumentative fan base, however the decision to cut your fat ass yesterday put all that to rest, because I didn’t hear a single person lament the decision, not one upset about Belichick giving up a 5th round pick, not even the bloviating hosts of the radio stations who are paid to stir the muck could get an argument going. I couldn't get simple banter in the office, everyone I talked to had the same "yea it was about time" feeling. Even my legendary e-mail chain partners had nothing to add, we relayed the news and then moved on...that's never happened in the history of the e-mail chain.
For once, it was peaceful in the Boston sports world. That’s your legacy Albert. A man who sucked so bad, and was so useless, that you got everyone to band together and say, "meh, its probably a good thing, he wasn’t that good." Sick career Albert, and thanks for the memories.
