10 ways you know you're a diehard Patriots fan.....

[Gwedd]

23.) You have a doormat with a JETS logo, and insist your guests use it.

24.) Your son is named "Foxboro", and your daughter is "Gillette".

 

[Mogamedogz]

• You go to every home game alone and drink with strangers, because single seats are cheaper and easier to come-by.
  
  
• Your 1 year old son acknowledges the team logo by shouting "GO PATS! GO TOM BRADY!!" (Yes, he is on the season ticket waiting list).
  
  
• Sitting in -10 degree weather for 3-hours, AFTER 2 hours of tailgating in it... to watch a play-off game against the Titans, and as a result suffering severe frostbite on just about every part of your body except your balls... which you dyed blue, and almost scorched with hand warmers.... is looked back on as a FOND memory.
  
  
• You have broken not one, not two, but THREE pretty good television sets over the years in anger over a loss (aka the refs cheating .
  
  
• You have seriously considered getting a portrait tattoo of Bill Belichick, even at the risk of him someday leaving to go coach a rival team.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

25) You let your kid wear a Tom Brady jersey to school outside Philly on the Friday before SB 39 when it's "Eagles Pride Day" and everybody else, all 600 are dressed in Eagles clothes....and you tell him if the teacher gives him any grief to tell them it's his constitutional First amendment right to free expression ( so what if it's a school and he really has limited rights- he doesn't know that and the teachers aren't lawyers so they may not either)

26) You go to the '07 opener at the Meadowlands in a Troy Brown jersey with other similarly dressed Pats fans and park in the Jets Gate 16B section or whatever they call it (belly of the beast) and manage not to get in any fights or get pelted, at least until leaving after the a**beating Brady, Moss et al administered....

 

[nashvillepatsfan]

25) You let your kid wear a Tom Brady jersey to school outside Philly on the Friday before SB 39 when it's "Eagles Pride Day" and everybody else, all 600 are dressed in Eagles clothes....and you tell him if the teacher gives him any grief to tell them it's his constitutional First amendment right to free expression ( so what if it's a school and he really has limited rights- he doesn't know that and the teachers aren't lawyers so they may not either)

Thats ballsy..I wouldnt even wear a Pats jersey in Philly. Nashville? no problem, they're ****ies. But Philly? I thought they shoot Pats fans there?

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

30. You quite your job because your boss wouldnt give you the day off to watch the patriots game.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Thats ballsy..I wouldnt even wear a Pats jersey in Philly. Nashville? no problem, they're ****ies. But Philly? I thought they shoot Pats fans there?

Are you saying that those Nashville guys would'nt beat the hell out of a fan wearing a Colts jersey to school down there?

 

[Dragda]

Everything you own has a Patriots logo. You even have a Patriots toothbrush, bath towels and a flashlight. Seriously. Everything.

You check Craigslist every day for more Patriots gear--particularly furniture.

You live 3000 miles from Foxboro but have been to training camp several times.

The best compliment you can say to your wife when trying to be romantic is that you love her more than the Patriots. It works every time, too.

You have an old sweatshirt that you haven't fit into since the 1980s, but can't throw it away because it has the Patriots logo on it. The old one.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Everything you own has a Patriots logo. You even have a Patriots toothbrush, bath towels and a flashlight. Seriously. Everything.

You check Craigslist every day for more Patriots gear--particularly furniture.

You live 3000 miles from Foxboro but have been to training camp several times.

The best compliment you can say to your wife when trying to be romantic is that you love her more than the Patriots. It works every time, too.

You have an old sweatshirt that you haven't fit into since the 1980s, but can't throw it away because it has the Patriots logo on it. The old one.

I have the old red and white home jersey with Tippett's jersey number on front and back and my last name on the nameplate

Its the iron-on style that I bought back in 1985,the iron on patches are well worn and the size was a Medium - Now 24 years later and older,I could not get an arm nowadays into a medium

 

[State]

A few more:

1. You remember when Schaeffer Stadium existed.
2. When a dentist was the center.
3. When you were excited about the Texas DT, Kenneth Sims.
4. The tremendous let-down when the fourth pregame against Green Bay we lost both Ronnie Lippett and Andre Tippett.
5. When the gloves came off Johnson he'd throw a half-back pass.
6. Steve Grogan or Champagne Tony?
7. A guard pulling to seek and destroy: John Hannah.
8. Grogan lighting up the Jets.
9. Dan Pastorini throwing a TD pass in the playoffs when our defense let up when they heard a whistle (from the crowd, it turned out); Houston beat us that year.
10. You know who Howard Cosell described as the "All-World" TE--not the Seahawk's QB's father.

 

[Deus Irae]

A few more:

1. You remember when Schaeffer Stadium existed.
2. When a dentist was the center.
3. When you were excited about the Texas DT, Kenneth Sims.
4. The tremendous let-down when the fourth pregame against Green Bay we lost both Ronnie Lippett and Andre Tippett.
5. When the gloves came off Johnson he'd throw a half-back pass.
6. Steve Grogan or Champagne Tony?
7. A guard pulling to seek and destroy: John Hannah.
8. Grogan lighting up the Jets.
9. Dan Pastorini throwing a TD pass in the playoffs when our defense let up when they heard a whistle (from the crowd, it turned out); Houston beat us that year.
10. You know who Howard Cosell described as the "All-World" TE--not the Seahawk's QB's father.

#4.... you forgot about losing Veris in that same game.

 

[N.Eman]

11. you kick your best friend and his girl out of your house after AFCCC & SB 42 losses cause they witnessed you cry.

 

[VJCPatriot]

1) In the middle of making whoopie with your wife you shout out Tom Brady by mistake.

Fixed it for you... LOL!

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Here are a couple that someone posted over on Bleacher Report (link in the quote from the original article):

9. You decide that this year, you're going to arrive at Gillette Stadium on Saturday night, and leave Monday morning, so you can avoid the traffic on Route 1.

3. Learning that Bill Belichick probably won't draft the players you covet, you stop coveting players, and start lusting after picks in next year's draft.

 

[Patjew]

12. you fly all the way from China to see the Pats play.....thats for "patjew"

I think that's more a sign of mental illness than anything.

 

[Patjew]

Thats not the only thing for Patjew...

You can add - You know when you are a diehard Pats fan when you start a thread on a sports forum website acknowledging your proud accomplishment of notching your 5,000th post

Now THAT is a sign of being lonely in China!

 

[NEPatriot]

The best of all is to have a nickname 'NEPATRIOT' in this forum. HOw cool is it?

 

[Patjew]

Awesome lists, guys. Really some classics here!

 

[JoeSixPat]

1) In the middle of making whoopie with your wife you shout out Gisele by mistake.

2) Instead of counting sheep to induce sleep,you count and name each player on the roster.

3) You take your family on summer vacation at the America's Best Value Inn in Foxboro.

4) You have a Brady vinyl FATHEAD on every wall of your home.

5) You get a tattoo of the Patriots logo on your 'privates'

6) You quit your high paying job because the new manager is a huge Jets fan.

7) Your idea of a night out of the house is logging into Patsfans.com on your laptop on the porch.

8) You can't remember your kids birthday dates but know that Andre Tippett was born on December 27th,1959

9) You cut off the arms on all your hooded sweatshirts

10) You answer 'Corey Dillon' when someone asks you if you know who sang 'Blowin in the wind'

Which of these do you resemble or do you have a list of your own to share?

That's a die hard Patriots fan?

I know some Pats fans who might take issue with a few of these:

1) I think some Patsfans have been known to shout out "Tom" - rather than Gisele

2) If naming Patriots players puts you to sleep, rather than quickens your pulse, you might not be as diehard a Patsfan as you think.

3) Summer vacation? Why waste time off in the off-season?

6) Patsfans never quit. Force the bastard out.

 

[Ian]

11: You start a website for the Patriots because you need some real people to talk football with

 

[Patjew]

11: You start a website for the Patriots because you need some real people to talk football with

That may be the best one yet.