Originally Posted by PATSNUTme

We do have posters here who claim to be Patriots fans. However, they accuse other posters of being "homers" when people here are enthusiatic about the team or players or when they defend the team, the players, the coaching staff, or the front office.

Perhaps these people don't look at the site that they are logging into. It is called PATSFANS.com.

Lets break that down. Pats = Patriots, Fans = Fanatics. .com = internet site.

I guess that if I logged in to an internet site for Patriots Fanatics, I would expect to run into the majority of the people there to be 'homers", but that's just me.


Are we suppose to be unbiased toward our team, like members of the so called media?

Originally Posted by PATSNUTme

For the record: This is PatsFans.com


Lets break that down. Pats = Patriots, Fans = Fanatics. .com = internet site.

Originally Posted by spacecrime

It makes you a better analyst of the game of football, but not a fan of a given team.

Fans are not objective. Fans follow a crappy team through the late eighties and early nineties, always believing that this year they will win it all.

Realistic is relative. A fan is optimistic about a rookie's chances. Fans don't look at rookies and say he hasn't shown me anything yet.

It's like a belief. A belief is something you accept without proof. Once you have proof, you no longer need belief. You have facts.

Unbiased (ie, realistic) analysts are not fans, even when they focus their efforts on one team.

An exception, I suppose, is someone who takes pleasure in doom and gloom. Still fanatic about his team, but convinced that new signees will not work out, and players who leave can never be replaced and would have have made the difference. They most respect the abilities of players who leave (they were awesome), while dissing players who stay (they won't amount to much this year).

My two cents.

ps Remember that fan is short for fanatic. Are you fantical about your team? If not, by definition you are not a fan.

Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

This is slightly embarrassing but since stumbling into this place a few years ago, all this time I thought I was posting in the Pennsylvania Transsexual Society fans forum

... it made sense that you queens would all be football fans, but I just couldn't figure out why you all liked the Patriots so much, rather than the Eagles or Steelers.

This explains a lot - now its all beginning to make sense

Thanks for the heads up PATSNUTme (... and ironically, apparently your name doesn't mean what I thought it did either.)

Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

This is slightly embarrassing but since stumbling into this place a few years ago, all this time I thought I was posting in the Pennsylvania Transsexual Society fans forum

... it made sense that you queens would all be football fans, but I just couldn't figure out why you all liked the Patriots so much, rather than the Eagles or Steelers.

This explains a lot - now its all beginning to make sense

Thanks for the heads up PATSNUTme (... and ironically, apparently your name doesn't mean what I thought it did either.)

Originally Posted by PATSNUTme

Are we suppose to be unbiased toward our team, like members of the so called media?

Originally Posted by Zuma

I don't see anything wrong with voicing displeasure when a player makes a mistake decides to 'take a play off'. Are BB, Brady, Vrabel, Harrison, Dante, etc. not homers when they offer constructive criticism to a player for slacking or just plain f'ing up? Did I offer constructive criticism sitting on a metal bench in freezing weather on Sundays watching a 1-15 Patriots team? I did. Fans care...that's why were fans.

Originally Posted by Box_O_Rocks

This explains much...