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OT: This was not the Patriots year. We knew that.

Patriots have plenty of blame to go around from offense, defense and ST.
4 possessions inside the 40 in the first half and 6 points That's on the offense.


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My brother was a die hard skins fan, up until he was 32 in 2004. Now it's all about the Pats. Naming his dogs after players and stuff. His wife was a Raiders fan, now also big Pats fan. There was some definite bandwagon jumping.
 
upstater said:
All I can tell you I've been following them for a very long time.

In fact, this name upstater comes from the Pts AOL boards (Bill Simmons was a regular there) in the early to mid 1990s.

Used to drive up to Sullivan Stadium regularly with 4 friends in the 1980s.

Used to take the T down there from Boston in the late 1980s.

Contracted a bad case of pneumonia when I showed up underdressed, drank too much, and froze on the T back to Boston.

Also, you graduated in 1995. Which explains a lot. Your generation lived through the worst era in Patriots history.

I am not surprised you knew hardly any people who were fans of Victor Kiam, Tommy Hodson, Hugh Millen, Dick McPherson and Rod Rust. Honestly, that is not surprising. Those 5 guys and their 1 win a year drove the Patriots fandom underground. It is telling that they immediately sold out the stadium when Parcells was hired, and they've never looked back. I graduated a decade before you and my friends and I got see the Fairbanks and Raymond Berry years. A bit different than Kiam/Rust.
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Didn't mean to suggest you weren't a long-time diehard.
 
FriarJ said:
whatever, ancient history, and it doesnt change what a mess CT. is. somebody wondering how a NE state could have fans rooting for a team named NE is silly. Unless of course NY is CT.'s daddy. As I said, screwed up.
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Doesn't seem you understand the basis for his comment. The Patriots used CT as leverage to get a new stadium. Personally, I don't think that's a reason for someone to stop liking their favorite team, but your reaction was uninformed. You should have wondered why he said that, rather than make a blanket comment about a state based on ignorance.
 
TRest said:
Because I know what I’m talking about? Pats fans in CT started appearing after they hired Parcells. Congrats on being the only kid in New Haven that liked them.
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Well there were at least two. I come from a family of giants fans with the exception of my father. I have been a Pats fan my whole life. There were some lean early years there while Bill and Bill were making hay in the meadowlands.
 
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In a couple of years the Pats fans will start falling by the wayside again. Just about every Pats fan at work has a "second team", lol.
 
We knew this wasn't their year? Kind of a bizarre excuse to throw out there minutes after the conclusion of a Super Bowl when you're team held a lead towards the end of the 4th quarter.

It wasn't the Giants season. They sucked and went 3-13. Not sure the same thing can be said about the Patriots.
 
The Funster said:
In a couple of years the Pats fans will start falling by the wayside again. Just about every Pats fan at work has a "second team", lol.
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Those poor UConn fans who have been saying, "well, at least we have the Patriots!"
 
ConnHuskBask said:
We knew this wasn't their year? Kind of a bizarre excuse to throw out there minutes after the conclusion of a Super Bowl when you're team held a lead towards the end of the 4th quarter.

It wasn't the Giants season. They sucked and went 3-13. Not sure the same thing can be said about the Patriots.
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When your defense has sucked all year, it's not your year. Can't name a team to win it with a sucky D.
 
Fishy said:
Up until 2004, none of them were.

I went to UConn for four years and didn’t meet a single Patriots fan.
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Nonsense. I grew up in CT and everyone I knew was a Patriots fan. 70's and 80's. UConn mid 80's was about 40% Giants, 35% Patriots and the rest Jets and other. Memo: Fairfield Cty. is not "Connecticut". It's in it, but it's the part least representative of the rest of the state.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Nonsense. I grew up in CT and everyone I knew was a Patriots fan. 70's and 80's. UConn mid 80's was about 40% Giants, 35% Patriots and the rest Jets and other. Memo: Fairfield Cty. is not "Connecticut". It's in it, but it's the part least representative of the rest of the state.
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Grew up in eastern CT in the 80's and early 90's. Pats fans were hard to come by.
 
mauconnfan said:
Yankee fans are front runners hilarious coming from a fan base who started wearing their stuff in 2004 again in both football and baseball lol..... rough night huh. Love it
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Yankees fans ARE front runners. You kidding me? Compare the number of Yankees fans to Mets fans. Is it just because the Yankees are in the AL and the AL is more popular???
 
HuskyHawk said:
Nonsense. I grew up in CT and everyone I knew was a Patriots fan. 70's and 80's. UConn mid 80's was about 40% Giants, 35% Patriots and the rest Jets and other. Memo: Fairfield Cty. is not "Connecticut". It's in it, but it's the part least representative of the rest of the state.
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I've been in Fairfield County my whole life. Yes, it is Connecticut. We make sure the rest of CT has money.
 
upstater said:
When your defense has sucked all year, it's not your year. Can't name a team to win it with a sucky D.
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The Eagles gave up over 600 yards last night.

That is the most yards ever given up any an winning team in NFL history, not SB history, the history of the entire league, or so I have read.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
We knew this wasn't their year? Kind of a bizarre excuse to throw out there minutes after the conclusion of a Super Bowl when you're team held a lead towards the end of the 4th quarter.
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He had two different posts prepared before the end of the game. The other one provided the basis for Brady to be canonized.
 
8893 said:
He had two different posts prepared before the end of the game. The other one provided the basis for Brady to be canonized.
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Err no, I said this before the game. Mentioned Barnwell on the Boneyard as well. In fact, it's in the Brady GOAT thread.
 
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Excalibur said:
Grew up in eastern CT in the 80's and early 90's. Pats fans were hard to come by.
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I grew up in Manchester in the 70's and 80's and literally never met a Giants fan. Not one. It was all Patriots with some Cowboy and Steeler fans mixed in. Didn't meet a Giant's fan until I went to UConn in 1984.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I grew up in Manchester in the 70's and 80's and literally never met a Giants fan. Not one. It was all Patriots with some Cowboy and Steeler fans mixed in. Didn't meet a Giant's fan until I went to UConn in 1984.
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You must have lived a sheltered life
Ive lived in Manchester since 1977 and have had family there since 1923
I am and know a ton of Giants fans who have lived there and still live there
IMO it were the Pats fans that were far a few
But then again maybe we all stick together
Anyway, as a Giants fan - I do support and like the Pats - despise the Eagles and Cowboys
 
TRest said:
This seems like fake news. No connection to the Pats down there for any reason.
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Actually, I'm from New Haven and I've always been a Pats fan too... so two pieces of fake news, I guess.
 
upstater said:
Depends on NY traffic and the GW Bridge. 1:40 to Foxboro.
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My old man had Jets season tickets at the Meadowlands from '77 to '06. There was never traffic in the morning heading down from greater New Haven, Sunday morning at 9 AM. Not surprisingly, the morning drive with a car full of donuts and coffee was the best part of being a Jets season ticket holder.
 
gtcam said:
You must have lived a sheltered life
Ive lived in Manchester since 1977 and have had family there since 1923
I am and know a ton of Giants fans who have lived there and still live there
IMO it were the Pats fans that were far a few
But then again maybe we all stick together
Anyway, as a Giants fan - I do support and like the Pats - despise the Eagles and Cowboys
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The short answer is he's lying. Like many Pats fans, despite all of the recent success, there's a major sore spot over the fact that for 30 years, the Patriots were a minor league team that nobody cared about.
 
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FriarJ said:
LOL, Connecticut is the most screwed up state and it not even close. Money, taxes, corruption, crime, poverty. on top of all that a complete and utter identity crisis. Yeah a NE state should not be rooting for NE. SMH
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Confirmed ****head now! Congrats
 
Well, the Patriots year next year just got iffy because Gronk is reevaluating. I think he wants a somewhat functioning brain to go forward with in his life and that last concussion might have been the cherry on the sundae. Most football players are too gung ho to evaluate this but it seems likea moment of clarity for him. The Patriots would have had no second half at all without him yesterday.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I grew up in Manchester in the 70's and 80's and literally never met a Giants fan. Not one. It was all Patriots with some Cowboy and Steeler fans mixed in. Didn't meet a Giant's fan until I went to UConn in 1984.
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What I'm getting from this thread is that football is everything in life and that friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, etc., all depend on what team you root for.
 
Saying 32nd ranked defense is a convenient excuse, sure they gave up a lot of yards all year but also gave up the 5th fewest amount of points. So 5th ranked defense where it actually matters
 
Fishy said:
Strange take given that the Patriots were favored to win the Super Bowl from like last February, but all right.

And Tom Brady is still pretty good. Yes, he’d be the third-best quarterback on the Eagles and he’d have to play blocker or something at the Manning family flag football games, but there’s no shame in that. He’s still the best Tom Brady.
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I don't know about that. He put up huge numbers last night. The Pats D was pathetic last night and shaky all year. They were paying better the last half, but still it was a vulnerable D. They got man handled last night. Part of the blame goes on Patricia who clearly had one foot out the door, the rest goes on the players who just were outplayed.
 
RoderickSpode said:
Well I can’t speak for everyone, but some of us grew up 75 minutes from Foxboro, have gone to Pats games all our lives, and didn’t grow up rooting for New York sports teams. Other than that, yeah, it makes no sense.
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If you live east of the Connecticut river, you've always identified with Boston more than NY.
 
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