Alright, St. Louis Rams’ fans, I’ve heard enough.

I’ve watched the game. I’ve read the articles.

I’ve seen all the highlights I can handle. After all the post-game speculations, explanations and excuses, I’m tired of hearing it.

The fact of the matter is this: The New England Patriots were the better team. That’s right, I said it.

On Sunday, the Patriots gave the St. Louis Rams a taste of their own medicine and ultimately exposed, humiliated and defeated the juggernaut that once was.

In every play from scrimmage of the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots played the exact way the St. Louis Rams had played all season long.

The Patriots ran short, lethal receiver screenplays. They ran the ball with the same pure dominance that Marshall Faulk had performed with all year. Their offense was on the field for only a few minutes at a time.

Their defensive backfield was rambunctious, picking off everything within the vicinity. Their quarterback, Tom Brady, drove down the field in the game’s waning moments with the composure of Kurt Warner.

OK, so the Patriots weren’t exactly the Rams reincarnated. The fact is the Patriots stuck to their game plan.

They played the only way they could have in order to win that game. They played a flawless, precise, hard-hitting and victory-minded football game.

They were perfect, and they capitalized on the Rams’ imperfections. New England’s performance was, modestly speaking, a thing of beauty.

Yes, on Super Bowl Sunday 2002, the “Greatest Show on Turf” was performed in front of a live Superdome audience by the New England Patriots.

It was as if the Patriots had studied the Rams to a science and transformed their game to turn the Rams dynamics into St. Louis’ worst nightmare.

New England linebacker Ted Bruschi dominated anything and everything that came anywhere near his massive body while his predecessor, the Rams’ London Fletcher, couldn’t come close to containing the skills of Patriots’ running back Antowain Smith.

The holes that Smith ran through were reminiscent of the lanes that Marshall Faulk has enjoyed since coming to St. Louis. Smith is a great running back.

He is an established member of the 1,000-yard rushing club. However, the Rams defense made Smith look like he was the one deserving of the NFL’s MVP honors.

The Rams’ defense shouldn’t take all the blame, though. Mike Martz failed to understand that Faulk was the key to victory.

The world’s most lethal, dominant player only touched the ball 21 times in the world’s most important football game.

Bill Belichick, however, saw to it that his Patriots would control the game with the simple game plan of running between the tackles.

Donovan McNabb-oops, I meant Kurt Warner-did his part in the role reversal game that was Super Bowl XXXVI.

Warner repeatedly acted as though he were the league’s best scrambler. Granted, he juked a few tubby defensive linemen, but when it came down to it, he got flustered and ultimately over-threw the game away.

Ty Law played the game of his life, and boy did he pick the right game to do it.

Law made Warner’s evening a miserable one, while making the New England Patriots’ evening one to celebrate their world championship.

The Patriots stood up to their “team of destiny” tag against the St. Louis Rams.

I find it humorous that many people gave the Rams that same motto just two years ago.

Tom Brady is the rich man’s Kurt Warner. The Michigan grad turned fourth stringer, turned Pro Bowler and Super Bowl MVP out-performed the Iowa Barnstormer turned back-up, turned Pro Bowler and Super Bowl MVP.

I also found it humorous that this city was sure of a victory when they had full access to the Patriots’ playoff run.

Wasn’t it obvious that Brady and his Patriots were winners and were not going to lay down at the mere sight of the Rams’ gold and blue?

The Rams may have had the best record in football this season, but so did the Kansas City Chiefs in 1994.

Does anyone, beside myself, remember them?

Probably not.

The pre-fabricated victory parade was also a nice touch. I’m sure the Patriots, upon hearing the news, got a real kick out of that.

The game has been played, and the official results are in. The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI by a score of 20-17. The Patriots took a page out of St. Louis’ book and defeated the Rams, clear and simple.

Yes, Brady and his trusty Pats triumphed over the team this city has grown to love and cherish.

And now it is their turn to deservedly raise that trophy and be crowned world champions.