Patriot Fans are about the worst. Most of them, anyway. I actually feel bad for the players. Belichick (who I like) deserves what he gets since either has no concept of PR and image maintenance or just doesn't give a shit (and if that's the case, I'd probably like him even more). The Browns, Packers, and Steelers are lucky to have such a dedicated group. The Bills, too.
90% of Patriot fans are bandwagoneers who couldn't tell you who Steve Grogan is, let alone Gino Capalletti, John Hannah or even Sam "the Bam" Cunningham (my all-time favorite). In Fenway Park, they call those kinds of Red Sox fans "Pink Hats", so I'll call them "Pink Helmets" (no disrespect to the Rounders).
They have no idea what long-term Patriot fans have had to deal with and they've been trashing the team all season. Also, New England is not a football-friendly region - we have exactly one Division I college. Boston's two biggest schools, my alma mater BU, and Northeastern have even DROPPED football. That should tell you something about what kind of market this is for football. You can count the number of NFL players who grew up in New England with one hand - and three of them (DeOssie, Tatupu, and Hasselbeck) had dads that played in the NFL - for the Patriots! There might be three or four others, probably less. That tells you what kind of football environment we have here. So those spoiled fans call in to WEEI or babble on the internet and they know jackshit about football.
Richard Seymour once mentioned that he thought the Foxboro crowds were the quietest and he caught holy-hell for it. But he was right. And the Boston press is probably worse. Their football columns are written by guys who have been brushed off by Belichick and they resent him - or they're just desperately keeping time until Spring Training when they can write about something they actually KNOW about. They practically chased Cory Dillon out of town after he played most of 2005 with a high ankle sprain that would have sidelined most players. Their treatment of Dillon (who the Pats would only have two rings without) was unconscionable and clueless. They wanted to dump him for Maroney, now they want to dump Maroney for who? Sammy Morris? They trash Maroney daily, but seem to forget that he absolutely shredded the "more physical" Jaguars and Chargers in 2007 after everyone else had figured out Brady-to-Moss. [ia116876](We don't get to 18-0 without Maroney, and we got to 18-1 because Josh McBrady panicked and abandoned Maroney and the running game and kept Brady slinging it against that Giant front-four buzz saw. McBrady showed the Giants exactly the SAME SHIT THEY SAW IN WEEK 17. That was a knock against McDaniels and Brady and not the fans, but most fans couldn't even tell you that...)[/ia116876]
Anyway.... I'm a die-hard Pats fan, and since we're talking about solid fanbases, most Patriots fans don't deserve what they have and they'll drop like a stone once this streak ends - and it's not about to, though they're all predicting it like Chicken Littles.
I remember when there were more Bills and Jets fans in Foxboro than Pats fans.
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. I would love to see the Vikes get beat.[/quoteea4c26d]
