Patsfan Survey: When Did YOU Become a Patriots Fan? - Page 4 - New England Patriots Forums

***reflexblue*** · 06-22-2012, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by tobias funke

I think it was around 1924 or 1925, when Pat Patriot was still on the team. Pretty sure I am one of the first fans ever hopefully everyone is super-impressed w/me now.

You win, heres your prize

Batman · 06-22-2012, 05:13 AM

For me it was sometime in the 90's My father is a huge Football fan and supports the raiders (poor him) I picked up his copy of NFL gameday as a kid not knowing anything about the sport I thought the patriots were england so always used them. Over time I started to learn how the game worked and started to enjoy it more and more, then i started to follow the patriots more and more with my father taping the games during the night for me to watch.

patman52 · 06-22-2012, 05:57 AM

I was 8 or 9 when my father took my older brother to a game. He came home excited and I got involved, the next year was when they won the East but lost to SD

BlueThunder · 06-22-2012, 06:18 AM

Looks like I could hang with quite a few guys/gals here and talk about the old days !

I became a Patriot fan during my time in the military 1962.

Started watching football in the mid 50's but back then there were no Patriots so I was a Giants fan. (Yes there were tv sets back then)

Conerly,Svare,Grier, Gifford,Rote,Triplett, Tunnell, Webster..

Smash mouth... no ticky tacky contact rules...FOOTBALL

zoostation · 06-22-2012, 06:29 AM

In the early 70's. My dad was an original season ticket holder for the new stadium (no not Gillette).

But they weren't the disco 70's..... they were the kick a@@ rock 70's Sam Bam Cunningham highlights with Led Zeppelin blaring in the background.

1976 is when I really started to understand the game and that year may have been the most talented Patriots team. Seriously.

***Peachhead*** · 06-22-2012, 06:34 AM

I've been a casual fan since I was a kid in the 70s. I didn't understand the game much. But hey, they were the home team.

I become a big fan in the 90s when Parcells was here, and then a total fanatic once BB took over. I still remember, like it was yesterday, the news conference when BB resigned as the "HC of the NYJ". Then the guy from the Jets (Tannenbaum?) went ballistic.

BlueThunder · 06-22-2012, 06:38 AM

Where are all the bandwagon fans?

IndyKen · 06-22-2012, 07:33 AM

Way back in 1960 when I was 11. I remember my Dad was very excited one day - he told me "We're getting our own pro football team" - so I was hooked from the very beginning.

olschool · 06-22-2012, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

I was a kid growing up with the hated Giants and YA Tits Up televised in Boston. We also had the Browns on another of the 2 networks and I loved Jim Brown. When Billy Sullivan got the Pats franchise I became a fan abandoning the Red Sox but still loving Bill Russell and the Celts. Went thru decades of frustration but it was worth it.

Frustration is right. They were rarely on tv, and it was a quest to find where they were playing their home games in the early years.

The first time I went to Schaefer stadium, I remember a river of urine running out of one of the rest rooms in the fourth quarter. What a dump that place was, even when new.

Still, they were OUR team, we just had to love 'em.

Gostkowski for 3 · 06-22-2012, 08:00 AM

when Curtis Martin and Terry Glenn hit the scene as young stars in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. I was pretty young at the time and growing up about 10 miles west of the stadium.