italian pat patriot

nice article from the Globe

what do you think about it ?

i read also the 1990 one...

was it true that few New Englanders admit to being Patriots fans ?

anyway it is clear that now the Patriots popularity grow immensly in these past years

Michael

Personally I grew up in the 70s rooting for the Pats and have never been a fan of another NFL team. I know many avid Patriot fans. I think it is true that New Englanders outside of MA tend to not be Pats fans. CT people tend to be more Yankees / Jets fans. I know one guy in CT that is an avid Cowboys fan. But, I live right in Pats country. A 10 min drive to The Razor. Lots of Pats bumper stickers, license plates and Championship caps around here.

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PatsWickedPissah

When the Pats started in 1960 this was Giants country with a few Browns fans as those were the 2 teams on TV here at the time. A segment of Bostonians have always had a NY inferiority complex and big apple wannabees rooted for the network hyped Giants. It took a few years for the AFL to get street creds culminating in Namath's SB III and Len Dawson's SB IV victories over the NFC. In the late 60s and early 70s Pats teams sucked which did not help the cause. Once a decade 76, 86, 96 the Pats would rise briefly out of the cellar and do well but would then sink back to sub-mediocrity.

5 Rings for Brady!!

I live in Virginia, and Pats fans are coming out of the woodwork around here. People at work with bumperstickers. No more than any other team, mind you!

But this has all happened recently! Bandwagon jumpers are fine with me. It was the bad performance of the Pats which kept people quiet for so long, and the Pats should be Contendas during Brady's career, at least.

Up in Boston, maybe people are sheepishly bowing to the media fantasy about the Red Sox being somehow much superior just because....But in Virginia, there are a surprising number of Red Sox caps and more and more Pats bumperstickers.

atlpatsfan

I live in Atlanta (hence the ATLPatsfan name). I was raised in NH and there are plenty of Pats fans there. I think they get fewer and fewer as you go north though. Atlanta has quite a few Pats fans and a lot of them are not just bandwagon folks. I have been going to a Pats sports bar since 2 years before the 1st SB win and it is always packed.

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DarrylS

I began as a Browns Fan, and some of my earliest memories were of Jim Brown, YA Tittle, those monster defenses from Chicago... I stopped following football for a while, even though I enjoyed the SB's... in the early 70's started back going to training camp, and became a die hard pats fans.

One of my greatest joys is when I go to the market on game day, every one is dressed in colors... incredible from the deli folks, to the customers to the check out people. Unbelievable, how much the Patriots are revered her in RI.

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Pats67

Word to the wise -- don't believe a ******* thing that Dan Shaughnessy says about Patriots fans or the team itself. His idea of a good time would be a roundtable with Doris Kearns Goodwin and John Updike to discuss the incandescent joy of being a fatalistic knee-jerking baseball fan/drama queen. Methinks football is a bit lowbrow for Mr. Grey Poupon.

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Patriotic

His recap of Pats fans is a good read. I was a Pats fan in the early 70's in western MA and there were very few of us. Some Giants fans as a result of being the only professional team in the region for all those years. But the Pats were a small blip on the radar screen.

Shaughnessy seems to be a lightening rod but give him his due when he does good work like in this story.

Pats67

I don't call the sort of ridiculous stereotypes and generalizations he traffics in as 'good work'. He's a lazy cynical hack, not to mention that he works for the Communications Department for the Red Sox, formerly known as the Boston Globe. Not that it influences his work any.

Personally, my response to that is '**** you', and I'm also old enough to emember when baseball "floated in and out of fashion" too. The Patriots have NEVER been out of fashion for me, I don't gkive two sh**s about the Red Sox, and I don't like this crap constantly being forced down my throat by uppity hacks like this prick.

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italian pat patriot

in the '70 and '80 was it full Schaefer-Sullivan-Foxboro stadium or partially empty ?

did the people went to the stadium dressed with Pats colours also at that time or not at all ?
when i was in Boston i bought many 'throwbacks' articles...

ps = sorry for baseball fans but i do not like it...i do not like basket either...but i like hockey and i like the Bruins (not really a fan)

ps 2 = nice anyway that today's the Patriots are quite near the Red Sox in terms pof popularity and perhaps somewhere in NE the Pats perhaps has also the 'majority' compared to the Red Sox (i hope so...)