At Top Of Their Game -- Like It Or Not

(From The Boston Globe -- By John Powers)

The NFL's official cinematographers already have shot well over a half-million feet of 16-millimeter film on this football team this season.

"More than any team ever," reckons NFL FILMS President STEVE SABOL. "And you thought LORD OF THE RINGS was expensive?"

Every play of all 16 games has been captured from four or five angles, and coach BILL BELICHICK and quarterback TOM BRADY have been miked for sound -- and posterity.

As the P-as-in-perfect Patriots continue their historic march, they've become America's Team, both for better and worse.

"I call them AMERICA'S FASCINATION," says Sabol, whose company bestowed the original AMERICA'S TEAM label upon the Dallas Cowboys in 1979.

"The Patriots are too good to have to use somebody else's nickname. They deserve their own."

An ESPN poll found that the Patriots were one of the most despised teams in sports.

At Top Of Their Game -- Like It Or Not

Erik Paulsen, thanks for the post.