Dynasties - Ming to the Patriots

A dynasty is "a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group."

This is the article that inspired this post:  Are The Patriots Building Another Dynasty?

The Patriots dominated the league when I was in high school, winning the Superbowl my freshman year, my junior year, and my senior year.  They went from underdogs to heavy favorites under the direction of their wise coach, Bill Belichick, their savvy owner, Robert Kraft, and their now super-star quarterback, Tom Brady.

After that they were still good.  They went 16-0 in the regular season, which had never been done and hasn't been done since.  But they lost in the Superbowl to the Giants mostly due to some bad luck on their part and a ridiculously lucky catch on the Giants part.

I want to compare the Patriots to another dynasty, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

The Ming Dynasty carried out extensive construction projects including the restoration of the Great Canal and the Great Wall and the building of the Forbidden City.  The Patriots opened Gillette Stadium in 2002 and it is beautiful as well.  Admission to Gillette is a little easier than the Forbidden City was at first but now the Forbidden City is much cheaper to get in than Gillette is.

In the beginning of the 2007 the Patriots had the Spygate incident.  They were taping other teams practices, a violation of NFL rules.  The rest of the teams didn't seem to think it was that big of a deal because everyone else was also doing it as well.  The Ming's had their own "Gate" problem called the "Wresting the Gate Incident" in 1457.  This was the removal of Jingtai so his brother, Zhengtong could resume power (Reference).

Just as the Ming's came back to power so will the Patriots, today, when they reset the order of things and avenge their loss 2007 loss to the Giants.

Go Pats!

Long Live the Patriots' Dynasty!