How has "Spygate" affected you as a Patriots fan?
 

Just wondering how this "spygate" nonsense has affected folks here. I'm personally weary of all the negativity continually heaped on the team because of this crap and wish it would just go away. I have a friend, however, who has been so turned off by it that he isn't even following the team this offseason. What do you think?

Re: How has "spygate" affected you as a Patriots fan?
 

If anything it's caused me to tune out the rantings and opinions of other teams fans if they show an obvious bias and incapability of simple comprehension.

But in terms of the Patriots, it hasn't affected me at all.

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I hate it, but I haven't tuned the off-season out. People are going to say what they want and take advantage of a bad situation. With all the crap talking our fans have done over the past few years, some of us had it coming...but we all take the brunt of it.

The sad thing about Spygate is the loss of journalistic integrity we have witness both here in Boston and on ESPN and other networks/publications. I don't trust a lot of what is written, and I borderline hate ESPN now.

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Somewhere between wanting to fight back and it being a royal pain in the ass.

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It's killed me - just killed me. Homerville will never be the same.

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I voted for No. 2, not because it has really changed my opinion of the Pats - I still love them dearly and will follow them with as much passion as ever. However, I was disappointed in BB that he would put the Pats in this position, and I am disgusted with the way this has stayed front & center for almost a year now. Following pro football is a means of escape and enjoyment for me. The heavy-handed mishandling of things by Roger Goodell, plus the gleeful piling on and on and on and on... by the media has really been a downer for me. It has, as the poll says, seriously affected my enjoyment of the Pats (much more so than the SB loss, which I got over after a few months). I wish it would all just go away, but it seems it never will as long as BB is associated with the Pats. That is a shame, for the fans, the players and the organization.

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Multiple choices would have been preferable as one who enjoys the soap opera, thinks it's just a nuisance and feels that Kraft has not effectively managed the PR fallout. I was away traveling so I missed the Tomasse article and all the furor. I don't watch pre-game blather so I only found out about the Tomasse Walsh update after the fact. Well after because at 20 seconds to go in the SB, I shut it off and stayed away from all sports news for a couple weeks. Just had to see all the Jints fans at Disney the next morning wearing their SB caps.

Also, I never watch ESPN nor do I read the mediots so my blood pressure stays low on the Pats hatred front.

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It's made me hate the media and fans of other teams more and made me realize how stupid most of them are. It's also made me hate Jolly Roger. Yep, lots of hatred going on here.

How I feel about the Patriots, though, hasn't been affected - I don't look down on Belichick or feel in any way embarassed over what happened.

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Well said, I feel the same way. It's like you can't focus on the team and football because there's always this annoying "but" attached to everything they do. What's most disheartening for me is how inaccurate and unfair 90 percent of the criticism has been and that the Kraft public relations staff hasn't done much to address it.

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................................:agree: