In fact, social psychologists have a term for people who excuse their failures as the fault of others because their self-concept is threatened by the reality that they just aren’t good enough.

The term is “whiners.”

The Pats broke a rule. They didn’t derive any competitive advantage from it, what they did was only against the rules because of the location from which they acted, and it’s pretty widely acknowledged that they didn’t do anything other teams weren’t doing too. But in the end, they beat the Steelers because Porter and his teammates just weren’t good enough, not because of a videotape. If you want to call that cheating, then I guess Porter cheats every time he jumps offsides, only that’s worse because he does get a competitive advantage out of it.

So I repeat again: Porter is a whiner with a persecution complex. And I’ll add, obvious though it may be, that you are an idiot.

and the mention is about his whining? Fantastic.

Like I said – any long-term defensive guy who plays at a high level and is involved in a lot of tackles is bound to have feet of game film ‘proving’ how dirty he is.

Ray Lewis complained that his team lost not because the Pats outplayed them but because of some excuse that isn’t accepted by anyone who paid attention to the game in question or knows anything about football.

Joey Porter complained that his team lost not because the Pats outplayed them but because of some excuse that isn’t accepted by anyone who paid attention to the games in question or knows anything about football.

So Lewis is whining but Porter isn’t? Sure, that makes sense!