Patriots 11th straight winning season!!!!

[Patspsycho]

I think 1990-1992 were the bottom of the barrel

I hope it's a long time until this team is in that comparison

Being a fan in 1990 sure gives you perspective.

A lot of the younger posters take our records for granted. After this season, we'll have lost a combined 5 games in the last two years which to me is pretty amazing.

I'm just shaking my head at our enormous good fortune in the last decade, and this one as well.

We snagged a franchise quarterback in Mallet so I'm going to wager that this decade will be a winning one as well.

 

[PATSNUTme]

what th OP meant to say is that the pats have 11 straight seasons with a winning record.

5 of the last 6 seasons have ended with a loss and the one that ended with a win, the pats were out of the playoffs

kudos for this sound very colt-like

sir, that is a very idiotic statement.I hope that you are just drunk.

 

[Tricorn Hat]

Referencing the links and thanks.
Back in the misremembered dark ages, 76-89, Pats had 1 losing season in 13.

Pats have best % of winning seasons of original 8 AFL teams, Jets worst.

They've come a long way since Clive Rush, Mike Taliaferro, and Joe(or should I say Rocky) Kapp.

 

[Tunescribe]

sir, that is a very idiotic statement.I hope that you are just drunk.

I think he's a Green Beans fan. His posts are subversively negative.

 

[tests]

lets just hope they can win the SB this year... thats all that matters to me. record mean nothing without the SB

 

[pherein]

Congratulations Patriots fans 11 straight seasons with a winning record, wow!!!!
:rocker::rocker::singing::singing::singing:

I hadn't even noticed, your always in the news, on top, or being talked about as the biggest threat. I guess I just took it for granted that your team is always amazingly efficient, even when not winning Super Bowls, lol.
Shesh, Kraft, your coaches, and boys have really done an outstanding job threw the years.
So, congrats and may you have 11 more years of good fortune.

 

[RayClay]

A Tally of Winning and Losing Seasons in the NFL « SportsDelve.com

According to this site, since 1970, the year of the merger, the Patriots are now 3rd in consecutive winning seasons.

The Cowboys had 20 in a row, but only 16 of those were after the merger, and the 49ers had 16 in a row.

Regardless of our some of our newer fans who don't seem to appreciate anything, really, 11 winning seasons is more than the regular season IMO.

Look at Dallas and San Fran. How many championships did they win by competing every year?

What team sthat rolled all the dice for one "window" season succeeded?

Be ready and winning every year for the playoffs and you have a fighting chance. Simple as that. some years, you have great talent, some years you surprise like 2001.

We're in it every year, even without Brady, a year where our record usually gets us in. Fantastic accomplishment.

Ours goes to 11 /Nigel Tufnel.

Man, I forgot how awful the late 60s/70s were. Early sixties was a fun team.

 

[RayClay]

Referencing the links and thanks.
Back in the misremembered dark ages, 76-89, Pats had 1 losing season in 13.

Pats have best % of winning seasons of original 8 AFL teams, Jets worst.

They've come a long way since Clive Rush, Mike Taliaferro, and Joe(or should I say Rocky) Kapp.

Clive was a happening, though. But Mike Taliaferro. Man what futility and mediocrity, and for a while too.

 

[Patspsycho]

Clive was a happening, though. But Mike Taliaferro. Man what futility and mediocrity, and for a while too.

Yeah Clive was electrifying.. literally electrifying, as in touching an ungrounded microphone at an intro conference and getting zapped pretty good.

 

[Patriots Nation NY]

what th OP meant to say is that the pats have 11 straight seasons with a winning record.

5 of the last 6 seasons have ended with a loss and the one that ended with a win, the pats were out of the playoffs

kudos for this sound very colt-like

go outside and practice falling down..

 

[PATSNUTme]

I think he's a Green Beans fan. His posts are subversively negative.

That explains it. Jets fans are demented by not winning any kind of championship since the merger. The Jets longest string of winning seasons is 3.LMAO

I apologize to idiots by saying his post was idiotic.

 

[Joker]

what's this??????????????????????????????????????

I thought only negative, sky is falling, we're the worst at everything threads were the only threads allowed....what a unique and satisfying thread...for me...a Patriots fan...a fan who prefers to feel good about the team I follow when they enjoy success....jeez...thought I was Robinson Crusoe here the past couple of days...

 

[RayClay]

Yeah Clive was electrifying.. literally electrifying, as in touching an ungrounded microphone at an intro conference and getting zapped pretty good.

But he was so much more. Just the black power defense, where he had to use a couple offensive guys because he didn't have enough black players. He did this stuff in games!!

A tremendously entertaining insane person.

 

[Tricorn Hat]

But he was so much more. Just the black power defense, where he had to use a couple offensive guys because he didn't have enough black players. He did this stuff in games!!

A tremendously entertaining insane person.

So that's where BB got his idea to have offensive players on defense: Clive Rush
AKA Reddy Kilowatt.

 

[jmt57]

Referencing the links and thanks.
Back in the misremembered dark ages, 76-89, Pats had 1 losing season in 13.

Pats have best % of winning seasons of original 8 AFL teams, Jets worst.

They've come a long way since Clive Rush, Mike Taliaferro, and Joe(or should I say Rocky) Kapp.

I may have been a neophyte fan at the time, but trying to sell me on Mike Taliaferro as the new starting QB was one of my first WTF moments as a Pats fan; the other was trading Nick Buonoconti for a bunch of jags. I was big Babe Parilli fan and even though the Pats were coming off a bad year and Parilli was pretty old, there was no way the Pats could convince me, even at my rather young age at that time, that this career scrub backup with the Jets was either a short term or long term improvement over Parilli.

Joe Kapp on the other hand I will admit I got fooled on. I never envisioned a QB that had just gone 12-1 and went to the SB the previous year would throw fourteen more picks than touchdowns the very next year.

 

[VI PATS]

There was a graphic up during Eagles game, what they called the Free Agent Era, since 1993, the Patriots have the most wins. Haven't checked the truth in this. I do know that Patriots have most SB appearences since 93 with 5, Steelers are second with 4

 

[jmt57]

But he was so much more. Just the black power defense, where he had to use a couple offensive guys because he didn't have enough black players. He did this stuff in games!!

A tremendously entertaining insane person.

Ha, I had forgotten about the black power defense; classic.

I'm trying to remember, didn't he have one of (or all) the beat reporters set the starting lineup one game too? And pick the starting lineup out of a hat in another game?


Perhaps the best Clive Rush anecdote is one of the least mentioned:

Billy Sullivan chose him over some guy named Chuck Noll, who then signed on with his backup option, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

 

[Joker]

I did...I HATED the Kapp move...what a boondoggle...aaaarrrggghhhhhh....you had to bring THAT up!!!!!

I saw Bo Nance run over four and five defenders back in the day...man, that AFL was something else...the Chargers were loaded...remember Lance Alworth and Hadl? Back then I was still a Giants fan, but the Pats had me at hello...all my friends told me.."man, that ain't real football in that league...it'll never go anywhere"...well, when the leagues merged, I washed myself of everything Giant ,bought season tickets and spent my misspent youth riding a rollercoaster that never once failed to surprise the hell out of me...jeez...I mean, **** McPherson for chrissakes....I sat up close behind the bench and watched his act all season....thought he walked out of central casting for a Cagney movie as Father Mulcahey or something...and Schaeffer beer???? Only freakin' Billy would sign a deal with the WORST friggin' tasting beer in drinking history...I STILL get headaches thinking about THOSE hangovers....I wouldn't trade a minute of the ride for ANY other team experience...the past ten years have been a reward as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Tricorn Hat]

Those Chargers. Hadl, Tobin Rote, and Alworth were bad enough, but Keith Lincoln ruined my life. And it didn't help prepare me for the '85 Superbowl either.

 

[jmt57]

I did...I HATED the Kapp move...what a boondoggle...aaaarrrggghhhhhh....you had to bring THAT up!!!!!

I saw Bo Nance run over four and five defenders back in the day...man, that AFL was something else...the Chargers were loaded...remember Lance Alworth and Hadl? Back then I was still a Giants fan, but the Pats had me at hello...all my friends told me.."man, that ain't real football in that league...it'll never go anywhere"...well, when the leagues merged, I washed myself of everything Giant ,bought season tickets and spent my misspent youth riding a rollercoaster that never once failed to surprise the hell out of me...jeez...I mean, **** McPherson for chrissakes....I sat up close behind the bench and watched his act all season....thought he walked out of central casting for a Cagney movie as Father Mulcahey or something...and Schaeffer beer???? Only freakin' Billy would sign a deal with the WORST friggin' tasting beer in drinking history...I STILL get headaches thinking about THOSE hangovers....I wouldn't trade a minute of the ride for ANY other team experience...the past ten years have been a reward as far as I'm concerned.

I was only twelve when the Pats signed Kapp, so I wasn't exactly an NFL expert - but the way I saw it at the time he had to be better than Taliaferro or Sherman.

The AFL was much better than they were given credit for. #### Vince Lombardi and his pompous comment about how there were four or five NFL teams better than any AFL team. The AFL West, with Hadl, Lamonica and Dawson was the best division in either league in the mid-late sixties, and was far more exciting to watch than any Giants game that was being jammed down our throat as if they were our "local" team.

McPherson was a short-term diversion to the Rod Rust fiasco. Anybody that bought into that has probably also bought waterfront property sight unseen in a state a thousand or more miles away from where they live.

Schaeffer beer was epicly bad. But in my opinion Carling Black label, from that brewery on Route 9 in Natick was even worse. It was the preference of many a kegger due to its attractive price, but it was - as impossible as this may sound - even worse than Schaeffer.