PatsWickedPissah

Even Pats fans can be an issue. My neighbor of 25 years, sailing buddy and long time hoops opponent and his lovely wife visited us in FL for the 2006 AFCCG. I blame their presence for the 2nd half Pats collapse. So, this year they're to be visiting us again the week after the AFCCG. No problem. BUT their schedule changed because of her sick Mom's Dr appts so they changed their arrival to the AFCCG. I was nervous all game and ready to blame them and disavow them had we lost. It was not fun for me during the game, worried that it would be deja vu all over again and I'd hate them for it. Irrational.

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Aldogg

This is why I am watching this alone with my big screen, with a few Pats fans sharing texts during commercials. I went to a party for the game that shall not be named, and honestly, while I was around a couple of other Pats fans, they were not hardcore like me and seemed like they took the loss nowhere as hard as I did. I would rather be by myself, and either go out and celebrate after the game with a win or with a loss throw something or do something stupid.

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Willie55

As I said previously, I always watch the games with the two same friends. For SB42, one of these friends got the stomach bug and couldn't make it. The other friend asked if he could bring a friend over. His name is Joe. I reluctantly said yes. It turns out this person he brought doesn't really watch football.

During the game, my wife and my other friend's wife think this guy named Joe is a nice guy, so they come in to where we are watching them game. They never come into where we are watching the game.

They start chatting up a storm with him, talking about all kinds of things (i.e. books, shopping, etc...)while the game is going one. And he's just chatting right back. I got so pissed. To try to drown them out I kept jacking up the volume on my surround.

From this day forward we call that guy Al-Queda (sp?) Joe, because he screwed up the Super Bowl.

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ArchAngel007

I watch it alone in my room. If it's one thing I learned about SuperBowls is that I really can't enjoy it with people talking throughout the whole game. I need quiet and solitude to enjoy it.

PatsFan24

Thought the memo was rather dull, but I agree that some people can kill the fun of a Super Bowl really fast. SB 38 was the last time I had people over for the game because of some of the behavior. In fact, I like it best to watch football alone.

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Patriots Dynasty!!!!

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"Stats are for losers, the final score is for winners." - Bill Belichick

Gwedd

Hear hear!

Two weekends ago, not 10 minutes into the AFCCG, there was a knock on my front door. I opened it, and in waltzed a member of my lodge, who began to take off his coat and boots. He had apparently invited himself over to watch the game with me. I was stunned.

As he's a lodge brother, I couldn't refuse him, but he really isn't that in to football, and although I can talk to him and share a beer from time to time, he and I are polar opposites politically.

It played out as I feared. It didn't help that i was also in some extreme pain (I still have some residual problems, but that's for another story) and that things were looking a mite dicey. No, he had to keep talking on and on about the most inane things, and regurgitating the typical PATS mythology about Brady being a "system QB", their defense sucks, yadda yadda yadda.

It turns out that the only reason he came over was because the cable was out at his place, and his roomates were watching some movie he wasn't interested in. Sigh.

I sucked it up and played the good host, though it raised the frustration level immensely. So, this past tuesday, I'm at a church supper, and there he is, and he comes over and asks what time he should show up to watch the Superbowl with me.

I quickly recovered and told him that I was sorry, but I'd been invited over to a friend's house for a party to watch the game with, etc. He figured then that he'd just go down to the pub and watch it there. So I'm safe, I hope.

Anyway, I was torn because I hated to NOT invite him over, but at the same time, it just sucks the emotion out of the game for me when I can't concentrate on it.

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tatepatsfan

Even for regular season games, I have to be very selective with who I watch a game with, let alone the Super Bowl.

Being a Pats fan is just the first criterion that must be satisfied. You also have to understand the level of dedication and seriousness with which a diehard fan takes this (or any other meaningful) game. That being said, the only people I'll watch a Pats game with are my wife, my three very closest friends, my mother, my brother and my father-in-law. I can't tell you the number of invitations I've had to politely decline over the years to watch the game with someone else, somewhere else.

Snake Eyes

I've been there, I've learned that one shouldnt watch the game with someone who hasn't been vetted yet. Only a clown like Brett Favre tries a play in a game that he never practiced before, we should learn from his bad example and not watch the biggest games with people who are unknowns.

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ForThoseAboutToRock

Don't feel torn. You probably preserved the friendship. Some folks just can't/refuse to understand the dynamics at play between a hardcore fan and a chance at the Lombardi.

At least we're not like those folks in Egypt who killed each other at a soccer game - most of us just yell at the TV (and walls, furniture, people, pets, phones, remotes etc.) so I figure we're not that bad.

This year, I've just openly admitted that going solo is the healthier thing for me to do. I appreciate invitations, but have rejected them out of hand.

This pamphlet will make for useful reading for my wife. After SB 42 she wanted to watch the trophy presentation... we got into a fight about 3 microseconds after that.

Razor's Edge

All this is sad, funny and so true! I am superstitious, I also do not accept invitations to watch the games anywhere but here at my house. The first two super bowls I watched somewhere else, they lost, then in 2001,2003 and 2004 I watched with my wife and kids, at home. They won, super bowl 42 and the last two playoff losses prior to this year I had guests, they lost. This year it's just me my wife. Go Pats!

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