LA Pats Fan

I have been reading alot of our threads especially those in which other teams fans come to join in friendly conversation.

I have to say that this season seems to bring out our worst.

our team is 7-0 and perhaps the best team in the NFL this year if not ever.

But the tone of our responses is extremely arrogant, demeaning, and bullying.

The problem is this really reflect bad on our ENTIRE FAN BASE. The Patriot players are responsible for the great season mates not us. Yet we thump our chest like we have some part in their success. I say we should start acting like the Patriot players do and respect our opponents.

We can surely find a way to tell Skin fans that we beleive the patriots will win without say "BECAUSE I SAID SO" or "HAVEN"T YOU WATCHED FOOTBALL".

MAN it is only week 8 - How will we be acting 6 weeks from now....

PS - If you are a fan from another team please refrain from posting - you should know by now your opinions may be discouinted

patsox23

I think some of us are kneejerk about it, and others of us are REACTING to the typically baseless nonsense that EVERY OPPOSING FANBASE has been bringing in here for YEARS now. Meanwhile, as soon as I'm about to chastise those of us who just sort of automatically get jerky with the out-of-towners, said out-of-towners start flailing away.

desi-patsfan

I think some of it has been the fact that most people just respond with a "YOU CHEATED!!!!!! BRADY IS SOOOO GAY!!!!!!!"

Kinda gets annoying after awhile.

Pujo

I agree, I'm embarassed by some of the Pats fans on this board. I've been to half a dozen stadiums and (almost) always had a good time with the other teams' fans. The only place I see people being this disrespectful is here. Some of it is well deserved, there's a lot of trolling, but some of it is just unprovoked attacks. We can do better.

Mainefan

I think it might be worth posting on some other fan boards, but politely and humbly and ready to hear any reasonable football talk.

SaCaCh

Yes but more than once I have seen posters from other teams get jumped on without even uttering a bad word. The child like responses that have infiltrated this site in the last few years have really gotten old and make this site a shadow of its former glory where we would talk football and let other teams fans come in and welcome them if they wanted to talk also.

shmessy

It's amazing you post this, since the Redskins fans who are flowing here are coming from a website that doesn't even allow opposing fans to jump in.

Once again, bad analogy but I'll use it - - it's like the old police state Soviet Union crowing about how nice and orderly everything was there instead of the messy United States where people argued all the time.

In a free and open marketplace of ideas, you are going to get a full range of people and styles. The people at Extremeskins.com and so many other fan websites don't understand this at all. Had you read the discussions in other threads regarding this very issue, you would have seen several of the Redskins fans grudgingly agree on this very point.

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Tunescribe

You make a good point, food for thought. I think much of it has to do with hangover from the firestorm of the BB taping incident and all the piling on accompanying that, which we had to endure for weeks afterward. Anyone coming here to talk football in a reasonable manner should be met with courtesy.

blriesenbeck07

I'm not quite sure you are correct in stating that we don't let opposing fans in. I think the only fans we tend to bash no matter what they say are Cowboy fans. That's because.. well.. they're Cowboy fans.

At first, I thought all of you Patriot fans were arrogant jerks. I was wrong. Most of you guys are pretty chill.

shmessy

Two week waiting period and you're out of luck if you have a free e-mail service.

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"They (Patriots) may be the greatest team ever" - Chris Mortenson, January 18, 2005 on espn.com