New York Times article "The Power of Bill"

[JudyPatFan]

Didn't see this posted...mods please merge if it's already there.

Judy Batista's article "The power of Bill" is on the front page of the NY Times sports section today:

The Power of Bill | New York Times

It doesn't say a lot that Patsfans.com readers don't already know, but the fact that it's in the NY Times is worth noting. Main point is how stars from elsewhere are "subsumed by the immovable Patriots ethos."

Quote: "The Patriots are not built to look good in the summer, though. They are designed to build toward December and beyond, which is why Haynesworth’s now-you-see-him, now-you-don’t training camp and Ochocinco’s practice drops do not worry the Patriots right now. They have been with the Patriots for a month and Belichick, ever tight-lipped about the state of his team, said it was not caught up to where it would have been if there had been a normal off-season. 'No, but wherever we are, we are,' he said."

My husband, a native New Yorker and huge Jets fan, complains about what he sees as the media's bias towards the Patriots! Football season makes for some good arguments in our household. JudyPatFan (not Judy Batista!)

 

[MassPats38]

Good article. Thanks for posting it.

The pro-Patriots bias thing typically rears it head with penalty calls involving Brady. I guess the number of night games relative to other teams adds to that claim. The fact is the Pats have a number of good divisional and non-divisional match-ups with good teams. Love or hate the Pats, cheer for them or against them, those games are worth watching nationally. Not many teams in the NFL can make that claim.

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Didn't see this posted...mods please merge if it's already there.

Judy Batista's article "The power of Bill" is on the front page of the NY Times sports section today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/s...spirits-and-hope-for-a-payoff.html?ref=sports

It doesn't say a lot that Patsfans.com readers don't already know, but the fact that it's in the NY Times is worth noting. Main point is how stars from elsewhere are "subsumed by the immovable Patriots ethos."

Quote: "The Patriots are not built to look good in the summer, though. They are designed to build toward December and beyond, which is why Haynesworth’s now-you-see-him, now-you-don’t training camp and Ochocinco’s practice drops do not worry the Patriots right now. They have been with the Patriots for a month and Belichick, ever tight-lipped about the state of his team, said it was not caught up to where it would have been if there had been a normal off-season. 'No, but wherever we are, we are,' he said."

My husband, a native New Yorker and huge Jets fan, complains about what he sees as the media's bias towards the Patriots! Football season makes for some good arguments in our household. JudyPatFan (not Judy Batista!)

Good article.
Btw, personal question, did you ignore him after the playoff loss? lol

 

[fnordcircle]

Maybe I'm a small, pathetic person, but I will say - with no shame - that if my wife was a Jets fan our relationship would not have progressed passed the date where I found that out.

Not because Jets fans are evil or some other stupid thing it's just - man you ever been to a football party and your team loses and there's one fan of the other team who is loving every moment of it?

Now imagine marrying that person. ************, we would have gotten on each other's nerves so much.

 

[Dufflebagz]

man you ever been to a football party and your team loses and there's one fan of the other team who is loving every moment of it?

SB42, my friend and his entire family were dancing in my front yard.....only one was a Giants fan

 

[JudyPatFan]

"Good article. Btw, personal question, did you ignore him after the playoff loss? lol"

Since my husband is a Jets fan, it gives each an incentive to know more details about each other's team (the better to rib each other). He has to pay off various bets we've made (for example, he pays for my subscription to Patriots Football Weekly.) And overall, I as a Pats fan have the upper hand, since all I have to do - even after last year's playoff loss when he was gloating - is to ask, "When did your team win its last Super Bowl again?" After all, it's not like I've had to watch him cheer his team in a Super Bowl in the 20 years I've known him!

The fact that the article I shared the link to was in the NY Times - not in a Boston paper - really does gall him! Judy

 

[Rob0729]

Along with the Post predicting the Jets will go 9-7 today, Jets fans must be pissed with the NY media today.

 

[Patspsycho]

The 5th down is always well written. Wish we had something like that for Boston.

 

[bagwell368]

Maybe I'm a small, pathetic person, but I will say - with no shame - that if my wife was a Jets fan our relationship would not have progressed passed the date where I found that out.

Not because Jets fans are evil or some other stupid thing it's just - man you ever been to a football party and your team loses and there's one fan of the other team who is loving every moment of it?

Now imagine marrying that person. ************, we would have gotten on each other's nerves so much.

Yeah, that would be tough. My wife is a Chicago Cubs fan, and cares nothing about any other sport - so it's pretty easy here...

 

[Gwedd]

My husband, a native New Yorker and huge Jets fan, complains about what he sees as the media's bias towards the Patriots! Football season makes for some good arguments in our household. JudyPatFan (not Judy Batista!)

You think that's bad? My wife belongs to a different political party than I do. I did not know this until after we were married. It makes for some interesting discussions, though.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

My husband, a native New Yorker and huge Jets fan, complains about what he sees as the media's bias towards the Patriots! Football season makes for some good arguments in our household. JudyPatFan (not Judy Batista!)
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It must be hell living in that house, I feel for you

 

[ivanvamp]

You think that's bad? My wife belongs to a different political party than I do. I did not know this until after we were married. It makes for some interesting discussions, though.

Yeah, but you're from Maine (where I grew up also, btw). There, all the Republicans are basically Democrats anyway, so what does it matter?

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

I have friends who are Red Sox/Patriots (he) and Yankees/Jets (she). Their standard bet is "winner get top." They told me a few times when the baseball games have gone into extra inning they both got to the point they didn't care who won they just wanted the game to be over so they could start the post game entertainment.

 

[The Boston Patriot]

SB42, my friend and his entire family were dancing in my front yard.....only one was a Giants fan

Get off my lawn - YouTube

 

[fnordcircle]

I hate the Red Sox. With a passion. Because they get so much more attention than the Patriots. It's an all-encompassing hatred that wells from deep within my soul and cannot be reasoned with.

My wife is a Red Sox fan second but a Pats fan first.

I used to always root for the Yankees because they are the Red Sox biggest nemesis, but I'm really not a fan per se. The darkness within me that feeds on Red Sox fans' tears made me do it.

Anyways my wife wasn't a Patriots fan really when we met she was just a Sox fan. An uneasy truce was reached and she became a Pats fan (she never cared about football before that) and in exchange I laid off of the Red Sox hate. It was tough but you have to comprimise.

For now I just root for the Cubs and grit my teeth the 5 or so times a year she watches a non-post season Sox game. For the sake of the relationship.

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Since my husband is a Jets fan, it gives each an incentive to know more details about each other's team (the better to rib each other). He has to pay off various bets we've made (for example, he pays for my subscription to Patriots Football Weekly.) And overall, I as a Pats fan have the upper hand, since all I have to do - even after last year's playoff loss when he was gloating - is to ask, "When did your team win its last Super Bowl again?" After all, it's not like I've had to watch him cheer his team in a Super Bowl in the 20 years I've known him!

The fact that the article I shared the link to was in the NY Times - not in a Boston paper - really does gall him! Judy

Don't worry. I'm in a similar boat as you. My long time GF is a Steeler fan.....and my other two previous ex's were Steeler fans...I must be a glutton for punishment. :bricks:

 

[Tunescribe]

Since my husband is a Jets fan ...

Sheesh. Talk about marrying down. :bricks:

 

[Bella*chick]

My husband was a Titans fan. After that very chilly playoff game, I simply informed him that our kids would never be raised Titans fans and that it would be confusing to root for two teams so either he could become a Patriots fan or he could simply never say a word about the Titans or leave any purchased memorabilia lying around. I even told his relatives that any baby Titans clothing they sent us would not be used so they best not waste their money. Since he is a far bigger college basketball fan, he converted.