Brandon Spikes had awesome dance to signal Patriots’ possession
By Larry Brown | January 13, 2013 - Posted in Football

brandon spikes danceBrandon Spikes busted out a hilarious dance during the third quarter of Sunday’s playoff game between the New England Patriots and Houston Texans.

Texans quarterback Matt Schaub threw a pass to Owen Daniels who had the ball knocked out of his hands by Jerod Mayo on a second-and-four play. The Patriots recovered the ball, and Spikes used a creative dance to make sure everyone knew who had possession. He went all electric boogaloo on all of us.

Unfortunately the referees botched the call and ruled that the play was dead before the fumble because of forward progress. The ruling made little sense to me; Daniels was still fighting forward when he fumbled.

The Texans ended up punting on the possession, but they turned the ball back over on their next one. Ball don’t lie.

GIF via Kissing Suzy Kolber

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Brandon Spikes wanted to fuel Santa with cocaine and Jack Daniel’s
By Steve DelVecchio | December 26, 2012 - Posted in Football

New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes must create a major headache for Bill Belichick off the field. As we all know, Belichick strives to get his players to stay out of the spotlight and avoid saying dumb things that are going to create headlines and serve as a potential distraction. Spikes’ Twitter account is a threat to Belichick’s policy.

On Christmas Eve, the former Florida Gator gave us another perfect example of why Belichick would probably like him to delete his Twitter account when he tweeted this gem:

This is the same Spikes who used colorful language to blast the replacement officials earlier in the season and wrote that he was having suicidal thoughts after the Super Bowl last season. After a number of followers ripped him for saying he was going to feed coke and Jack Daniel’s to Santa Claus, Spikes justified his tweet with the following:

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Ryan Fitzpatrick: Brandon spikes is a punk
By Steve DelVecchio | November 12, 2012 - Posted in Football

New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes is not a very well-liked player in the Buffalo Bills locker room. The first time the two teams met this season, Spikes laid a vicious block on tight end Scott Chandler that many of the Bills felt was uncalled for. During New England’s victory on Sunday, Spikes was flagged for roughing the passer after another heavy hit on Ryan Fitzpatrick. The Bills signal-caller was not pleased.

Fitzpatrick stood up and appeared to curse at Spikes following the play, and reporters asked him about it after the game.

“We’re not going to back down from anybody,” Fitzpatrick said according to the Boston Globe. “Spikes is an emotional player. I think he’s a punk at times. He took a cheap shot at Scott in the first game, and he was doing a lot of jabbering and talking and getting out there.

“Not one of my favorite players. Not high on my list.”

Buffalo center Eric Wood agreed with Fitzpatrick, calling Spikes a head-hunter and accusing him of trying to knock the quarterback out of the game.

Spikes was fined $21,000 for his block on Chandler earlier in the year. During his college days at Florida, there was an incident in which it appeared he intentionally tried gouging an opponent’s eyes after the whistle had blown (video here). Spikes is a bruiser and dishes out plenty of clean hits that force turnovers, but calling him a dirty player is not totally unprecedented.

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Brandon Spikes rips replacement refs after Patriots lose to Ravens
By Steve DelVecchio | September 24, 2012 - Posted in Football

Sunday night’s game between the Ravens and Patriots was one of the most poorly-officiated games the NFL has ever hosted — for both sides. New England should not use the replacement refs as an excuse for why they lost the game since the officiating was atrocious all around. There were 24 accepted penalties throughout the course of the game, and an NFL record 13 of those resulted in first downs. After the game, Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes had some harsh words for the officiating crew on Twitter.

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Depressed Brandon Spikes tweets he was suicidal after Super Bowl loss
By Larry Brown | February 6, 2012 - Posted in Football

How down was Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes after his team’s loss? Feeling badly enough to tweet “suicidal thoughts.” There isn’t much commentary to add here, but it just shows the obvious pain some of the players were feeling. Some people will argue that this is what the Patriots deserved. I liked Spikes a lot more when he was rocking his happy pink suit.

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Brandon Spikes Breaks Out the Lucky Pink Suit for Super Bowl Send-Off (Picture)
By Steve DelVecchio | January 29, 2012 - Posted in Football, Swag

The Patriots held their Super Bowl send-off party at Gillette Stadium on Sunday morning, and most of the players were dressed to kill.  It was fun to see Vince Wilfork break out his super-sized suit, but the real star of the afternoon was linebacker Brandon Spikes.  As Gators fans would remember, Spikes rocked a pink suit before Florida won their national championships in college.  Now that the Patriots are playing for a championship, he decided to steal the show by breaking it out again.  Here is a picture of the swag Spikes was rocking on Sunday:

It takes a confident man to step in front of the camera wearing that bad boy.  For Spikes, there was really no other option.  It’s his lucky suit.

“Brought the lucky suit out again!” Spikes wrote on Twitter Sunday morning.  He also responded “only for championship games” when a fan told him they remembered it from his Florida days.

New England’s defense is hoping the pink suit holds some magical powers.

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Brandon Spikes Tebows After Patriots Beat Broncos, Former Teammate (Picture)
By Steve DelVecchio | December 19, 2011 - Posted in Football

The photo above is one that Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes shared on his Twitter account after the Patriots handled the Broncos in Denver on Sunday.  As most of you know, Spikes and Tim Tebow were teammates at Florida.  Like seemingly everyone else who played alongside Tebow during college, Spikes said he has a great relationship with him.

“I love Timmy to death but today I’m on the HomeTeam!!!! #GetThePicture,” Spikes also wrote after the game.

The concept of Tebowing has obviously taken on a life of its own, but I’m sure Tebow himself loves it.  Whether it’s an opponent mocking him after a sack or a teammate joining in on the fun, people are paying tribute to Tebow’s religion by Tebowing.  At the end of the day it’s just another way he’s been able to spread his faith.

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