PatsWickedPissah

I'm confused. I thought the Brits were on our side in WWII?

(This is a GREAT thread. Keep the comments coming)

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Higgins86

Hopefully there will be some Mancester united fans in the staduim booing the Bucs!!! Glazer family took the richest sports club in the world and saddled them with 800 million debt! Plus they have raised the ticket rices at Mancester pricing out true fans. I believe they are doing a similar thing at the Bucs!

bostonia3333

Yeah it's obvious the Pats are one of the biggest draws in sports. It's just a bit unfair for Tampa to lose a home game in the USA because their opponent gets better ratings. The Bucs have a very good home field advantage, and if their team was good this year, people would be complaining about this setup. If we played the Steelers or Cowboys, LONDON would be our home game. But hey, I'm not complaining...at least for this year!

Ciara's Dad

Concerning the pitch, I think that Wembley will tear up badly. I think it would've been a better idea to play the game at a rugby ground. Either Twickenham or the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. Or better still, Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

Is it strange to US Pats fans that when reading posts from UK fans, that we've always got to mention our soccer club allegiance? We've already had posts from Arsenal, Celtic, Rangers, Manu, Liverpool and Maccelsfield Town fans. We just can't seem to let it go! Maybe it's a first generation NFL thing.

ricogatenby99

I am 18 now, but I got into the sport when I was young and gettin some teeth out in hospital, and my dad has been to America and everything and the superbowl was on about 1am, and ther was nothing to watch, and it really intregued me straight away, and tbh at first I supported the pats because I was young and found it good that ENGLAND was in the team name haha so thats how I am here

But im at university in Newcastle now and hell yeah I am going to the game, cant wait! I hope some of you americans are near me in the stands for some high fives =D GO PATS!

PatsFaninAZ

Well, for what it's worth, I'm the Gooner in the thread, and I'm in the states.

I'm certainly not surprised that anyone living in Glasgow would mention their footy affiliation up front. Don't they put your old firm affiliation right on your driver's license in Glasgow, even before gender and marital status?

shmessy

I was thinking the same thing, until it dawned on me that they would probably get picked off by Redcoats.

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BritPat

There's a lot of truth to that. It's fair to say that the War of Independence isn't really well know on these shores, not now anyway, so people are unaware of the origins of the name New England and the like. Many people saw the new "England" and thought "yes!" - plus it helps that in recent years we've been the class of the NFL.

People say that we're the Franchise with the biggest following in the UK, but I don't believe that, thanks to the Steelers, the 49ers and Dan Marino being so good when the sport was first shown over here, they have a lot of fans, as do the Cowboys. The Pats number is growing though.

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BritPat

Completely irrelevant.

It's a subject very few know anything about, let alone care about.

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