Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

One thing has me pretty pissed, the fact that the Foxboro fan base is way too ready to boo their home team. I hear boos for going 3 and out against Miami (in a win), or for giving up a TD drive to the Colts in garbage time (also a win). It's embarrassing. Fans should not be booing a 12-3 team, a team that has dominated the AFC for a decade. All it does is prove that New England fans are ungrateful, selfish, spoiled and ignorant. No class.

When the camera rolls over to Peyton on the sidelines in the 4th quarter, a guy who is trying to keep the broken pieces of his team and his career together, watching the Colts get dismantled, I could almost hear him thinking "they're booing? 31-10 in the 4th. We could only be so lucky".

The Pat's decade-plus of success has turned Patriots Nation into a bunch of entitled assho!es, who think they know how to run a football team. They don't deserve a franchise stacked with hard working, professional players who have their heads screwed on right and kill themselves to win each week. I blame the damn Boston media, who are a bunch of mutton heads, know almost nothing about the game, but love to hear themselves criticize almost everything Belichick does.

If you think this team deserves to hear it from the crowd, what you really need is an 0-16 season to remind you what bad football looks like. Granted, this is not the 2007 team, or the 2003 team in terms of completeness. But the 2011 team is competitive, clinched the playoffs (again!), scrappy and committed.

And that with devastating injuries...Koppen, Light, Mankins, Vollmer all out against Miami, 4 of 5 starters on the line!!!... and you're booing the rookies and practice squad guys drafted into service, playing out of position? Fans should have some PERSPECTIVE. Any other franchise would have folded long ago.

I've got buddies who are die hard Seahawks fans, some Browns fans, too. My brother married into the Bills fan base. They watch their teams screw up and lose almost every other week. They are committed to their teams for better or worse. They are thrilled just to get into the playoffs. A win is a big deal, not a foregone conclusion. They've got more cause to boo.

Fans are supposed to be supporters, not self-righteous bastards. Stop booing. You're a humiliation to the rest of us.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

The fans were not boo-ing a "12-3 team" the fans were boo-ing "poor play."

To me, the first half against Miami would classify as "VERY POOR PLAY" and thus worthy of boos.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

Also, when fans pay outrageous amounts of money to go to the games, and the team puts up a stinker. Well, I feel they have a right to boo.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

The team looked disinterested and was sleepwalking in the first half

Sometimes loud boos can wake up a team realizing they are not playing hard and someone is noticing it.

Nothing is wrong with booing when 60,000 fans see an obvious lackluster effort which is what was happening for 2 quarters last sunday.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

At one point Saturday I thought the fans were booing the lack of a defensive holding call on a failed 3rd down play.


btw these are adult males playing perhaps the most violent game that exists today, not little girls jumping rope. I hope to god they aren't affected by a little negative reaction from the fans.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

Based on reports of the Belichick halftime "pep talk", I would surmise the players probably preferred the booing.

Maybe that the other side of the 12th man concept.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

Class is overrated. Given the first half effort and the second half effort it's clear the boos had no negative effect, so why shouldn't the fans express themselves?

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

You don't see the irony of this being in your post?

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

That's crap. Pretty obvious explanation for the pressure on Brady in the first half. Solder in his first game at LT, Cannon at RT, Connolly back from injury, Wendell out of position. Two rookies and two UDFAs, three playing out of position. A real fan would understand what they're up against.

Re: Booing a 12-3 home team for going 3 and out: No Class
 

No doubt. I'm not naturally a self-righteous bastard, only by association with the rest of the *******s the fan base.

Golden Age of football in New England, and the fans are booing "poor play". It's absurd.