Why are you doing this PatsfaninVa? You're better than this, don't let the Joker and others influence you!
Really? After your 50 "Wait until Week 16" posts? You've been treating this meaningless game as "Your Super Bowl" for half the season... you should be
thanking the Pats for improving your draft position -- and if that comes with a little old-fashioned JEST-shaming, well, so be it.
Look my brother-from-another-mother-who-had-the-misfortune-of-liking-the-JEST, this thread
is about hating your team. It's irrational from our point of view of course, since your team poses no threat. But it is, was, and always will be a good time to hate the JEST in a New England board.
What I take issue with, at times, is the calumny heaped on people who are unfortunate enough to have a NY JEST loyalty -- I don't feel that individuals, when well-mannered enough, should be hated too hard. It's not their fault (sometimes) that they are JEST fans.
You've taken the first halting steps away from this ill-considered loyalty, and I wish you well in your future journey in fandom. If you like, you can reserve an "unless they're good this year" step-down clause. They'll crush you in the end, but that way you won't feel as if you've missed out in the event the JEST are alive in the post-season. After all you wouldn't want to have missed your two shining years of glory when you went to the AFCCG -- you know, one game shy of being the SB loser... a season that Pats fans always have to take as a disappointment.
I know, we're spoiled. Only 1 team in 32 wins it all every year. By the law of averages, the JEST should have one at least
one NFL championship by now, just by dumb luck.
But then, we hogged 3 of them, and regrettably, took the JESTs' chances to appear in 4 others.
That breaks my heart as a Pats fan. In this we are united. If the Pats hog the AFC's chances of winning Super Bowls, we ought to damn well win them.
Let's both hope that Brady and company come away with another ring this season. And a couple more the next two. That would be a nice bookend for the career of the greatest QB of all time. (And would also help you in the usual JEST self-justification machine -- how could you have been expected to win at any time during
those two decades???)