900 pounds of Butterfingers dumped in Boston to mock Wes Welker

[El Supremo]

http://www.nesn.com/2012/02/pawngocom-leaves-900-pounds-of-butterfingers-in-copley-square-to-mock-wes-welker-photo.html

[Scuba]

1. I thought it was the missed block by the interior lineman that ruined what otherwise....

... oh wait, nobody sees those.

[Submariner]

2. Welker doesn't feel bad enough? Dipsticks have to rub it in NOT knowing the other view?

Don't blame Welker, blame the pass

Patriots receiver Wes Welker took the blame after the Super Bowl for his “drop.”

Quarterback Tom Brady didn’t help matters when he didn’t say anything about how he should have thrown a better ball. Whether he believed that or not, that’s what Brady usually does.

Combine both things, and you have an avalanche of blame being heaped on Welker.

And in my mind, that is totally wrong.

The pass wasn't good enough.

Welker never should have been put in that position.

Why?


http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2012/02/dont_blame_welk.html?p1=Well_Sports_links

[RagAss]

8. Oh Please.....Give it a friggin rest !!!!

That's a bad pass to someone's Uncle Larry in the backyard at a family picnic. But to a pro receiver that's like scratching your ass...I'm a lifelong Pats fan since the days of Jim Nance...But this Welker drop?.....The Dude Choked !...and we don't need him back next year. If you hate Brady just come out and say it in your subject line, but don't prove you never played the game by saying that was a bad pass on the NFL level. Chris Collinsworth played the game and he said "100 times out of 100 times"...He was a Pro and he knew the second he saw it that a Pro makes that catch.

We need big receivers. Brady is getting to old to throw to dwarfs...This Welker's time has come and gone. Hope the rumors are true and there is a draft day trade in the works for Larry Fitzgerald for a #1 and #2 pick !

[JonLP24]

10. Fitzgerald has dropped some passes

He is targeted so often it actually isn't very rare to see that happen. Anyways I highly doubt he is going anywhere. He just signed a massive contract extension this season.

[caraher]

3. Ugh

Isn't this a team game?

Why don't I see Brady called the goat for heaving an interception trying to force it deep on 1st down with the lead late in the game? Yeah, it was a bad drop by Welker, but no worse than probably 5 other plays in the game.

Stay classy, Pawngo. (Though as a publicity stunt, it clearly worked...)

[OKNancy]

4. a loss should never be blamed on one play...

not only that, but Welker has been a standout in the past for them. Heck, they might not have made the super bowl if not for all the passes he caught during the season.

[madinmaryland]

5. Dumbasses. I'd much rather have Welker than

Roy Williams.

He would make a nice complement to Miles Austin.

[Miqqyy]

6. These wankers are infested with Republicon Family Values

What Mammoth A-Holes they are to pull a low-class shitty-ass stunt like this.

And every true sports fan knows what Kolossal A-holes they are.

[RockaFowler]

7. Butterfingers?? Really??

What are they children?? So, Wes hasn't done anything for the team. He will be remembered for that one play?? What a bunch of babies

[MrSlayer]

9. Stupid.

I don't think Wes was the twelfth man on the field that cost them a turnover. I dpn't believe he missed a key block that forced the imperfect but catchable ball he did drop on that play. Perhaps he should have been running free fifty yards down the field to catch the ball on the safety play. Perhaps he should have been playing cornerback too. This is a shabby way to treat a guy who had been so valuable all year. I'll take him.

[jumptheshadow]

11. Wide Right

Contrast this incredibly infantile act to the reaction of Buffalo fans after Scott Norwood's 47 yard field goal went wide right and they lost the 1991 Superbowl to the NY Giants. Thousands of Bills fans showed up in Niagara Square, and when Norwood was introduced, they gave the loudest cheers of the day. I was there, and it brought tears to my eyes.

This is the Buffalo News description of the event:

http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/super-bowl-xxv/article327005.ece

[KamaAina]

12. Why didn't we think of that?