Been watching the Patriots since i was old enough to watch tv. I dont think I was old enough to remember the first Super Bowl against the Bears but I certainly remember the late 80s and early 90s when they were nicknamed the "patsies" lol.
Never understood the complaining about frontrunners. Every winning team in every sport gets them. When you have a winning team for a decade plus, you're going to get a big number of them too. How many of those front runner fans now might be die hard fans now too? It is just dumb, bandwagoners exist, people need to get over it. Every fanbase acts like they don't have them and the other franchise fans are frauds. Just illogical.
You can't deny the fact that the amount of people driving around with huge Patriot decals on their truck (ok, maybe those type of things only came into vogue the last few years) or wearing Patriot gear increased by ridiculous leaps and bounds since 2002. Prior to that, you could argue they were the fourth most popular Boston area team. They became appreciated overnight largely because they were the only team in New England winning championships for a couple years anyway. Had the Patriots never won a Super Bowl while the other three local teams had won championships, it would still not be as big a deal to the average fan as the Bruins drought was. Boston has never been a football town (It's why I laugh when the talk hosts whine about "Get ready for 2 weeks of Ray Lewis and the Harbaughs" when we know the talk shows will be on to the Red Sox by Thursday), and the fact they are out in the middle of the woods of Foxboro has much to do with that.
I just don't buy that Patriot fans are as passionate as an overall fan base as Eagles fans, for example, a team who hasn't won in years. There is whole generation of folks, including myself, who grew up watching and rooting for other teams because 8 times a year, the Patriots were not on TV in this area because they could not sell out.
Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!
Been watching the Patriots since i was old enough to watch tv. I dont think I was old enough to remember the first Super Bowl against the Bears but I certainly remember the late 80s and early 90s when they were nicknamed the "patsies" lol.
Never understood the complaining about frontrunners. Every winning team in every sport gets them. When you have a winning team for a decade plus, you're going to get a big number of them too. How many of those front runner fans now might be die hard fans now too? It is just dumb, bandwagoners exist, people need to get over it. Every fanbase acts like they don't have them and the other franchise fans are frauds. Just illogical.
I never once said any team i root or for has front runners or any other team for that matter. I was just pointing something out.
You can't deny the fact that the amount of people driving around with huge Patriot decals on their truck (ok, maybe those type of things only came into vogue the last few years) or wearing Patriot gear increased by ridiculous leaps and bounds since 2002. Prior to that, you could argue they were the fourth most popular Boston area team. They became appreciated overnight largely because they were the only team in New England winning championships for a couple years anyway. Had the Patriots never won a Super Bowl while the other three local teams had won championships, it would still not be as big a deal to the average fan as the Bruins drought was. Boston has never been a football town (It's why I laugh when the talk hosts whine about "Get ready for 2 weeks of Ray Lewis and the Harbaughs" when we know the talk shows will be on to the Red Sox by Thursday), and the fact they are out in the middle of the woods of Foxboro has much to do with that.
I just don't buy that Patriot fans are as passionate as an overall fan base as Eagles fans, for example, a team who hasn't won in years. There is whole generation of folks, including myself, who grew up watching and rooting for other teams because 8 times a year, the Patriots were not on TV in this area because they could not sell out.
Raiders, Steelers, Cowboys, Giants I can put ahead of New England fan bases.
Raiders, Steelers, Cowboys, Giants I can put ahead of New England fan bases.
I guess its all subject to where you live. I live in New England and am not a Patriot fan. I find many Patriot fans around here arrogant as hell. It wasnt that long ago(maybe a dozen years) that Boston based teams used to hate that about fans of teams from say NY for example.
Now that they have had some success it has gone to their heads. Not all fans are like that mind you. I know many cool fans in all the 4 major sports. I just enjoy seeing the idiots get knocked down a peg or 2.
Being a Steeler fan I know that we have our share of idiots in the fanbase. Just like every other team.
Raiders, Steelers, Cowboys, Giants I can put ahead of New England fan bases.
Obviously, as well as the Packers, Bears and Redskins. Ravens and Browns too....those were cities that lost football and they were passionate about getting it back. The Browns are awful but they still manage to avoid blackouts in the largest stadium in the league.
Torrey Smith claims he was the subject of angry tweets from Patriots supporters taunting the Ravens wideout for the death of his younger brother. Tevin Jones passed away after a motorcycle accident in September, an event that united Baltimore's locker room.
"Played a lot of games since my brothers death and I never received as many rude tweets after a win than Sunday...yet NE fans cry about class," Smith tweeted Tuesday.
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