Umm ... well, they don't get a trophy, but they do get the record for being undefeated in the regular season. Postseason games don't count for most statistics.

While the Patriots are probably the best team in football this year, I seriously doubt that they're close to the best in history. The '85 Bears, for example, would take the Patriots, I believe. Just because they have the best record in history doesn't mean they're the best team. (I mean hell, look at their division. That's at least for guaranteed wins right there.)

And Pats fans will talk about how every team films opponents' signals, which isn't true, and they have no evidence of it -- but of course, that's because they just haven't been caught. The Pats were only caught doing it because they're such a good team and they had a lot of attention, especially from jealousy, just like nobody thinks you're doing steroids if you're weak and scrawny. I've seen Pats fans say things like that. (From what I've seen, the Patriots fanbase is similar to the New York Yankees fanbase in terms of arrogance, especially now that a good half of them are fairweather fans.)

But regardless, congratulations to the Pats. We'll see if they can take the Super Bowl and cap it all off, but even if not, they've got a few more records to add to the books.