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[evilmedic13]

What a time to be a Boston sports fan. Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, BC Football.Too bad I moved to GA 20yrs ago but wayyyy better riding conditions!

I suffered through many lousy, losing Patriots seasons and gave up wasting my time watching. I then married a GA girl from a UGA football team family and much prefer college ball but still catch the Pats when I can.

Its all about the coach, Bellicek knows how to control those egos and keep them focused on the team not themselves.

Steve

You seem to have the best of both worlds, Steve. GA weather and an alliance to the NE sports.

But seriously, being a native New Englander, I've been a Pats fan since birth, and watched them through all of those horrible losing seasons. But, I really enjoyed some of them even though they didn't make the playoffs or hit the big time. They never got any respect or attention from the media, always treated as a second tier team from the junior league, and that's part of the allure.

But I don't think that qualifies as suffering. Suffering as a fan, in my mind at least, is defined by our other illustrious team (the Red Sox, of course) who have managed to blow so many season leads, and trips to the big game, in so many different ways. But I have never stopped watching, and rooting, for them either.

As you probably already know, we die-hard New England sports fans wear our suffering as a badge of courage. We like it being the scrappy underdog that the rest of the country hates. Being the league and media darlings that the Patriots are now is a bit of new territory for us, though I did notice the announcers seemed to really want the Giants to stop the 16-0 for some reason.

How about the Whalers? I still wish they were in Hartford, too bad they had to go to NC to win a cup. :angry:

 

[twowheelnut]

How about the Whalers? I still wish they were in Hartford, too bad they had to go to NC to win a cup. :angry:

Holy Way Back Machine, Sherman! My ex-pops-in-law had seasons tickets to the Whalers. That was the only time I ever had interest in hawkie.

 

[Fred W]

How about the Whalers? I still wish they were in Hartford, too bad they had to go to NC to win a cup. :angry:

That was an interesting experiment. I have no idea what made them think that Hartford was a big enough market to support a major league team, even though it was hockey. Well, as it turned out it really wasn't, and that's a big part of why it failed.

Then later they briefly considered moving the Pats down to the same area. That would have been disastrous. CT is already split between wanting to be part of New England or part of NY. The New England and Boston teams draw from all 6 New England states. The one state that is MOST divided is CT. So naturally that would be the best place to relocate to? :blink: Thanks God it didn't go through...

 

[05fjrBluedevil]

What a time to be a Boston sports fan. Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, BC Football.Too bad I moved to GA 20yrs ago but wayyyy better riding conditions!

I suffered through many lousy, losing Patriots seasons and gave up wasting my time watching. I then married a GA girl from a UGA football team family and much prefer college ball but still catch the Pats when I can.

Its all about the coach, Bellicek knows how to control those egos and keep them focused on the team not themselves.

Steve

Oh, then you were cheering them on in the days of grogan, franis& sam the man, I still remember watching the game when tatum broke stinglys neck....

Wow to think all these years later and all the seasons of them being good but just not good enough, I think i recall the year that they were almost there and plunkett was traded to oak and he helped beat them and the superbowl party in 85 when i was the only Pats fan and we got smashed.....

But since i started liking them in 76 when the bicentinal came through Cincinnati and I as a kid was just tired of watching the bengals loose even though I liked the players, curtis, anderson, essex johnsom, ****y clark etc. It was refreshing to watch the Pats and the red white and blue, I still have a photo of me as a kid 15 i think with a pats joursey on number 14, but what i guess i never thought about is that they had Flutie and he never got to play, to think all those naked bootlegs grogan use to run back in the day and it always seemed we'd lose in the playoff because of the qb play.... It makes me think had they given Flutie a chance back then maybe they could have got a SB ring sooner........

I remeber being booed out of river front stadium when i showed up cheering the Pats, back then it was hard to have opposing fans at river front, but since i decided to try and follow Cin a while for the last few years it seems there is always opposing teams fans there in force....

But back to the Pats, i think this is great and only hope that they are able to complete the perfect season...... Becasue the old timers from miami are concerned it is funny how they are reacting, welcome them to the area and all but not acknowledge the feat, I am sure what they have done in 07/08 is more difficult then the 14 -0 record Miami had since all the rules and caps to make the teams more on par with one another now....

So 19-0 now that would be great!!!!!!!

 

[ionbeam]

When I was living in Atlanta in 1963 I started following the Boston Patriots (ya, I’m old). Later, living in Cleveland it was common to have Jim Brown, Lou Groza and Frank Ryan come over to our house and we had free tickets to all the Browns’ home games. Jim Brown gave me one of his complete uniforms - helmet, shoes, pads and all. In spite of that I continued to follow the Patriots. With Jim Nance, Gino Cappelletti and Babe Parilli the Patriots were a Wild Thing in danger of winning at any time, yet still crashed and burned most of the time. Teams can be fun and fun to watch even without a winning record.

For all the ballyhoo that Miami makes over being the first undefeated team, there were three other undefeated teams before them, Miami was just the first to do it after the AFL/NFL merger. Miami's opponents in '72 only had two teams with winning records in their 14 game season. New England is the first team to have a perfect season in the free agency era. Until this year the Patriots have been a bunch of ‘lunch bucket’ kind of guys, where they went out and ground out wins without any real stars or league leading players. Still, most of the players on the team are not league stars yet as a team they are greater than the sum of the parts. I hope to be watching the Patriots some time in February

 

[Jaycen]

When I was living in Atlanta in 1963 I started following the Boston Patriots (ya, I’m old). Later, living in Cleveland it was common to have Jim Brown, Lou Groza and Frank Ryan come over to our house and we had free tickets to all the Browns’ home games. Jim Brown gave me one of his complete uniforms - helmet, shoes, pads and all. In spite of that I continued to follow the Patriots. With Jim Nance, Gino Cappelletti and Babe Parilli the Patriots were a Wild Thing in danger of winning at any time, yet still crashed and burned most of the time. Teams can be fun and fun to watch even without a winning record.
For all the ballyhoo that Miami makes over being the first undefeated team, there were three other undefeated teams before them, Miami was just the first to do it after the AFL/NFL merger. Miami's opponents in '72 only had two teams with winning records in their 14 game season. New England is the first team to have a perfect season in the free agency era. Until this year the Patriots have been a bunch of ‘lunch bucket’ kind of guys, where they went out and ground out wins without any real stars or league leading players. Still, most of the players on the team are not league stars yet as a team they are greater than the sum of the parts. I hope to be watching the Patriots some time in February

you have been listening to WEEI?????

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

You guys are making me homesick..... WEEI, Grogan, Plunket, Whalers..... man I remember trying to watch channel 38 with bat wing antenna among all the fuzz on the 12 inch black and white.........

My first pro game was opening day 1968 at the Fens, bleachers. Detroit beat Boston 9-2. I was young and tired and missed Rico Petrocelli hit a homerun into the monster........but I still have a souvenier beer mug with Boston Red Sox on one side and Boston Patriots on the other. The Pats were playing at Fenway back then.......

Many memories. I like the newer happier ones (Though the Celtics could always be counted on).

Nothing will beat 2004 and the Red Sox Championship, but the Patriots this year is awesome so far.

 

[Old Michael]

You guys are making me homesick..... WEEI, Grogan, Plunkett, Whalers..... man I remember trying to watch channel 38 with bat wing antenna among all

Finally, a Plunkett mention!

Classiest person to ever wear a Pat's uni. Good man.

(new avatar - a real looker)