How did you become a Pats fan?

[QuantumMechanic]

My father was a Boston Patriots fan. We went to at least one game each year and spent other Sundays on the couch. Isn't that how it is done?

Exactly. We always went to the Miami game (which sadly meant we saw plenty of losses) and one other game.

Despite everything that's happened over the years I still think my favorite moment was being in the stadium in 1978 when NE clinched their first-ever AFCE title against Buffalo. (Being there to see NE knocking Manning out of the playoffs is a close second).

 

[DaBronxPats14]

Back in'76. Traded my Tarkenton Purple #10 Jersey in for a Red Grogan #14 Jersey.
(BS Call On Sugar Bear Hamilton vs Raiders they both would have met in SB that yr.)

When we played touch football games here in NY, I used QB my team and I would run Bootlegs, Throw Bombs, Flea Flickers and once I saw Grogan play and actually do it for real that was it for me. He broke a record for Rushing TDs by a QB (12).

Back then here in NY there were lots of Jets Fans (Namath) Cowboys, Steelers & Raiders.

 

[Le Numéro Douze]

Montreal Alouettes came back to the CFL in 1996 so I started following football. I wanted to cheer for an NFL team and the Patriots were the team we got on TV every week here in Quebec (we get the CBS affiliate from Vermont), so I became a fan. Stuck with the Pats ever since. I can say that I have been pretty lucky

 

[Thelonious]

Aluminum Seats:
Watching is more fun, man. Give it a try.

Anyway, Dad had season tickets...fandom was hard wired into me pretty early on.


I have the option of rewatching on Game Pass, but I hardly ever do. I haven't had TV for a long time, and I think anyway that my fondest memories of following games are listening to Bob Wilson do the Bruins games in the 70's. I still drive a stick too, and I heat with wood. I'm archaic.

 

[Two Eight]

I jumped on the 2nd bandwagon.

Played hockey in HS and followed the B's but never played football or cared about the Pats until they made the superbowl against GB. Went to my first superbowl party and have been following them since. Good time to be a Pats fan!

 

[Gwedd]

I signed on to the Patriots Nation when they drafted Jim Plunkett in '71. Became a fulltime fan in '74 and haven't looked back.

 

[Gwedd]

Aluminum Seats:
Watching is more fun, man. Give it a try.

Anyway, Dad had season tickets...fandom was hard wired into me pretty early on.


I have the option of rewatching on Game Pass, but I hardly ever do. I haven't had TV for a long time, and I think anyway that my fondest memories of following games are listening to Bob Wilson do the Bruins games in the 70's. I still drive a stick too, and I heat with wood. I'm archaic.

Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

 

[TruthSeeker]

I'm a sports fan from just south of Boston so naturally became a Patriots fan.

I do remember the numerous decades when getting to the playoffs (sometimes just getting a win) was cause for great celebration. It's the perseverance through the bad times that make the good times so enjoyable. That being said, I take it as it comes.

I do remember watching the 14-point underdog Patriots take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh in the 2002 playoffs and being so anxious that I decided to get on the treadmill. I put on my heart monitor and watched as my heart rate went DOWN after I started exercising.

 

[Sfpat]

Moved from Lynn, Ma to Newport RI in second grade. New neighbor kid next door was a big sports fan (all Boston teams). Prior to moving I wasn't aware of pro sports as my parents, who were from California, didn't follow sports, no TV no newspaper, etc. Started following the Red Sox, Pats, etc and became a full Pats fan when they signed Joe Kapp (Cal alum and Super Bowl QB). Been a fan ever since though I haven't lived anywhere close to New England since 1981.

 

[PatsFanInLondon]

I was a bit of a Broncos fan as I got into the NFL in the 80s here in the U.K. (big fan of Elway), but that quickly changed when I moved to Boston in 1995 and lived there for 7 years (at least I was there for the first SB win!)

 

[signbabybrady]

STH since the womb

 

[IndyKen]

The year was 1960 and I was 11 years old. My Dad came home with a copy of the Boston Record American, he was all excited and said "We're going to have our own Pro Football team". That was all I needed...! Since then I've followed them everywhere I've ever lived- in the Air Force in Spain, in Colorado for 12 years and in Indiana for the past 30 - always a Pats fan...!

 

[archstanton543]

My best friend was a football fan and tried to get me interested. He basically bugged me into watching games with him. This happened to be when Orthwein hired Parcells and drafted Bledsoe so the buzz around the Pats was high at the time and kind of jumped on the bandwagon and have never jumped off.

 

[tasmlab]

I quit being a Patriots fan after the 2014 KC Chiefs game in week 4. Has anything happened since then?

 

[MagicMarker]

I was 12 years old in 1974, and just started watching football. The first game I ever watched was the Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins against the Patriots. My sister said it would be a blow out because the Patriots were so bad. Well, the Patriots pulled off the upset, and I've been a fan ever since.

I had one close call on jumping off the bandwagon. The next season, 1975, the Patriots were on their way to a 3-11 season and the Patriots were playing the Bengals. I said whoever won that game is the team I'd be a fan of. Turned out, it was a lie. The Bengals won, but I stayed a Patriots fan!

I think I made the right choice!

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

1995. I was a shy freshman at a Texas high school. I went to the mall to buy a football jersey but decided to be different. Everyone had Aikman, Irvin, Smith and Moon. I went with a Bledsoe jersey simply because I liked the name and the colors.

The next day while wearing it at school, my new nickname quickly became Bledsoe and it helped me open up a bit. The name stuck, and I started following the team.

 

[HeadHunter]

My story is boring.

I started watching football in 2005, I'm from New Hampshire my family are all Pats fans so I jumped on board. I did fall in love with the game, quickly became a die hard fan and endured a TON of heartbreak before the Pats finally won it all again. Been a great ride.

 

[PatsDeb]

I became a fan as a kid in the 1970s watching the Patsies with my dad. As I have said elsewhere, we used to remain at our summer cottage on fall Sundays (freezing our butts off sometimes) because the game was blacked out at home, but we could watch it on the NH ABC affiliate. Many times we were able to go home at half time.

 

[Clonamery]

I'm not a Pats fan, only pretending, I like the whining attitude of the NY Jets. Love their stadium in NY too. Like to mock people and make fun of them though not like fnordO more like Ron Borges (who I plagiarize quite often).

I did start watching the Pats in the early 70s (didn't know anyone who watched them) and almost became a fan while enjoying Andy Johnson, Steve Nelson, etc. Got a few scrapes from playing parking lot football at the old Foxborough stadium. Don't miss those hemorrhoid-inducing metal benches though. If they win another SB I might finally decide to become a fan or at least buy a t-shirt or cheerleader calendar.

 

[Jimke]

I lived 5 miles west of Boston and began following the Patriots in 1959 when
Billy Sullivan purchased the last franchise. It was exciting watching the team take
form from scratch.