This won't be popular but nevertheless:
My heart bleeds for al the dumb clucks who object to spending a dime to get off their fat arses.
During the 1960's when there were not very many Patriots fans, the Pats games were always blacked out. And the tickets were in some dreary broken down stadium like Fenway, Braves field, Harvard or BC where the view was terrible.
But the useless slugs who sat on their fat duffs would watch the broadcast of the damn stupid Niew Yawk Futball Giants into the Boston area and thought they were football "fans". Every single game, every dreary losing week, home or away, for every stupid week of the season. The Packers might be contesting a game with the Colts or Browns for a title, but all we got were the 2-12 Giants and that was all the local doofuses wanted.
What was ultimately insulting was the sniff, sniff of haughty Giants fans, saying the AFL and the Patriots had to get a football before they would consider maybe following them. As if what the '60s Giants offered, bore any relationship to NFL pro football.
I bought tickets every year and gave up my Patriots season tickets in 1986 when I got transfered else where by my company, and have been buying Patriots games in the media, ever since 1986. First with a "Big Dish", (remember them?), then with Direct TV. I have absolutely no sympathy for the general complaints about not being able to see them. Direct TV offers a game by game package; or Sign up for a cable package for a week and then drop it. Or pay for an Internet broadcast; or listen to an Internet radio broadcast. I've done all before; you can do it if you want.
Perhaps worst of all I have to see sniveling fans want to congratulate that ultimate phony, and stumble bum John Kerry for any of this. His threats are just that. The idiot doesn't even know that ONLY baseball has the antitrust exemption, although all the pro leagues wish they did so, as well.