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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2562221, member: 153"] 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. [/QUOTE]