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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 3546125, member: 1026"] Maybe because the Pats hadn't won yet and therefore had less of a following, but from living in MA from 94 to present I'd say the Red Sox potential new stadium (Save Fenway Park) generated much more talk & controversy than the Pats move. There was almost as much 'buzz' about the Pats potentially building something in the Seaport district even though the Hartford talk progressed further. People in Boston didn't take the proposed move to Hartford seriously, perhaps a portion b/c they didn't care enough, but I'd say predominately because it seemed preposterous. Even though some teams have preposterously moved cities, i.e. OKC-from-Seattle, not to say that it being unlikely means it couldn't have happened. The fact that the Pats got little concessions arguably proves my point more than yours. Their preference was never to move, so once it became viable to stay it didn't take much to keep them. On its face that makes more sense as the Whaler loss already had diminished Hartford and moving there, even further away from Boston makes no economic sense. The CT spin is there was an opportunity that could have been seized & it was blown, I say this is partially a fiction told only to ease the pain of being used and summarily dumped. To wit, "they couldn't have been just using us, see how little they got for it?!" [/QUOTE]