Patriots quarterback Brady rides records to MVP Award

Add Most Valuable Player to all the other accolades Tom Brady has been collecting.

The New England Patriots’ record-setting quarterback drew all but one vote Saturday in romping to The Associated Press 2007 NFL MVP Award in the same manner his team romped through its schedule, going 16-0. On the way to the first unbeaten regular season since Miami went 14-0 in 1972, Brady put on a performance for the ages.

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I love this! I’ve heard so much belly-aching by a few vociferous sour-pusses whose teams chilled in the shadow of the mighty New England Patriots this year. Spygate this… spygate that. Well, I think the Associated Press said it best, “Spygate be damned!”

Below is an excerpt from the Associated Press story.

Spygate be damned! Bill Belichick of the unbeaten New England Patriots is The Associated Press 2007 NFL Coach of the Year.

With the Patriots motivated by a spying scandal – and owning the deepest talent base in football – Belichick guided his team to the first 16-0 regular season in league history.

That was enough to offset the major blemish on Belichick’s resume: a $500,000 personal fine, $250,000 fine for the team and the loss of a first-round pick in the upcoming draft after the Patriots were caught videotaping New York Jets coaches during the season opener.

Spygate didn’t stop 29 of the 50 voters on a nationwide panel of media members who cover the NFL from voting for Belichick on Thursday. In a season highlighted by many strong coaching performances, Belichick beat out Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy, who received 15 votes for leading the Packers to a 13-3 record and the NFC North title.

“This is definitely a team recognition, but one that I appreciate very much on a personal level,” Belichick said in a statement issued by the club.

Here’s an article all about the display:

ChannelCincinnati.com
Christmas Light Display Draws Attention On Web
Lights In Sync With Music

POSTED: 12:59 pm EST December 5, 2005

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Some people at Christmas time are content to deck their homes with evergreen wreaths and holly, and maybe a few strings of lights made to look like glimmering icicles.

Not Carson Williams.

He spends nearly two months hooking up 25,000 lights, then programs them to dance to Christmas music.

Hundreds of cars drive by his house every night to see the display, which also is posted on several Internet sites.

Click here to watch Carson’s display

“So far, everyone’s been really courteous,” Williams said on NBC’s “Today” show Monday. “I told the neighbors, I told the sheriff, if they get any complaints, I’ll shut it down, because the neighbors are more important to me than the Christmas lights. I do the Christmas lights for myself.”

This is the third year Williams has assembled the display, which grows every year. He said he merely built on a suggestion from his wife, Sherry.

“She wanted some lights on the house, and I work with computers, so I said, ‘There’s got to be a way to control it with computers,”‘ Williams said.

He explored the Web and found examples of other synchronized displays. It takes him about an hour to program each minute of the display, which flashes to music by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

That doesn’t mean neighbors have to listen to the sound track repeat itself all night.

“The sound, we actually broadcast on a low FM transmitter, so there’s actually no sound in the neighborhood,” said Williams, an electrical engineer with Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions.

A sign tells passers-by where to tune to listen, and Williams often stays outside for hours at a time chatting with visitors and directing traffic.

“We’ve had no problems,” said Dave Hare, who lives across the street.

But the first year, it took some explaining.

“We called it the psycho house,” said Hare’s wife, Michelle. “It was just weird random flashes. Then, he told us about the radio station and it was great.”

The display runs until Jan. 1

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