Why do people hate Brady so much?

[Actual Pats Fan]

In no particular order...

1. Best at what he does.

2. Wildly successful.

3. Good looking.

4. Filthy rich.

5. Supermodel wife.

6. Doesn’t play for their team.

Take all that into account and add in the fact that it’s Joe Schmoe hating. A guy sitting on his ripped up couch with a job that he hates and a beer gut exploding out of his pants looking across at some fat/ugly/both wildebeest that he calls a wife.

No.

Joe Montana was all that and nationally liked and respected.


This has entirely, 100% to do with Patriot denigration which dates back to the 1970 merger. The Sullivans could not defend against it because most of the off-field stuff the press reported was true. On the field, well, Ben Dreith kept right on with his stupid career, including doing the 1981 Super Bowl, and the league and media went to town when the Pats were at the bottom of the league the following season, conveniently ignoring the fact that that would be our only losing season in thirteen.

Bob Kraft has 100% endorsed all endless Patriot denigration by the league since even before he bought the team. Destroying our uniforms, pretending that Bledsoe is better than the fifth or sixth quarterback we've ever had.

The Packers, Cowboys, Steelers, and 49ers, to name a few, had exponentially longer and worse stretches of losing on the field, but they did not destroy the logos and uniforms their fans rooted for for decades, and they got to see their teams win the Super Bowl looking like themselves, instead of some other, weird, ugly enemy team.

The entire Schaefer Stadium full of Patriots fans booed the hell out of the flying elvis' prototype. Patriots haters, including Orthwein, reveled in his makeover that Kraft has kept ever since.

All you need to know about Kraft is his tearfully apologizing to the other owners and coaches on April 1, 2008, after the league and media perpetrated the greatest smear-, libel-, slander-, vilifying propaganda campaign in the history of sports.


The NFL and national media endorse all of the Patriots hatred that was already in full force way before the 90's. We were accused of cheating in the 2002 AFCCG, after we were considered unworthy of being there due to the Tuck Rule the prior week.


Tom Brady does what he's done with any other franchise, and he's the deserved national American hero that he is.

Here in New England, we cannot see our team wearing our real logo and uniforms;

we cannot win anything without league witch hunts including hundred of millions of dollars spent to propagate the myth that we always cheat;

and we cannot have the Bill Russell of our sport here and have him given the national accolades, respect and admiration that he's earned many times over.

 

[fourhour]

12 year olds and the internet.........

 

[reflexblue]

I like Manush, his writing is good even if his opinions are generally so bad. I suppose you have to be a good writer when you are the beat writer for the Jets because they have been boring since 2010.

Or they just SUCK, and Have sucked for so loooong.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Because Brady defies everything that's suppose to be Football.
He gets better with age
He succeeds no matter his supporting cast
He can make ok players good make good players great
He has won so many games when it looked like he would clearly lose.
He doesn't have elite athletic skills he doesn't have a NFL bloodline.
He has been in so many contereversial situations that weren't any of his fault or doing.
He happens to be what most would say a Handsome guy he has a supermodel wife.
He is genuine he always credits his coaches team mates and coaches.
He always talks up the opposition he is humble which people don't believe so they assume he must be fake.
He has beaten every critic every naysayer and he keeps going.
Thats why non Patriot fans hate the Goat of Quarterbacks.

No.

It's because he plays for the Patriots.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Bob Kraft said it better than any of us will: "Envy & jealousy are incurable diseases."

Ignorance and stupidity are apparently incurable, in Kraft's case.

The league he worships did nothing but impose racist, crybaby, sore loser corrupt tactics throughout the sixties to unsuccessfully attempt to put the AFL, and the Patriots, out of business.

They're all the same today, and Kraft has learned exactly nothing.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Shoot, back during Spygate it was BB getting the brunt of everything. People wanted the man kicked out of the game.

Like I said, I think it started as a hatred of Belichick, went to the Patriots as a whole, then turned into hatred for Brady. That’s just my opinion.

 

[Ring 6]

I can see division opponents fans hating the patriots.
I could see rivals like Baltimore, Pitt, Denver and Indy from years ago fans hating the pats.

I can see 9er fans hating that he surpassed Montana, cowboys fans because the franchise has surpassed them historically and I can see Seattle and Atlanta fans still upset over losing SBs.
That’s a third of the fans out there. So it’s nit shocking.

 

[Wordsmyth]

i Never thought i see the day that i would post something by manush meta that was positive about brady or the pats.

Why do people hate Patriots QB Tom Brady so much?

Jealousy. Married to a hot supermodel. Both are millionaires. All the success alienates the envious.

 

[Jackson 2]

Like I said, I think it started as a hatred of Belichick, went to the Patriots as a whole, then turned into hatred for Brady. That’s just my opinion.

It's a good one...

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

It seems to me that the boston sports writers are unique in that they go out of their way to trash the pats. Off the top of my head i can't remember writers in other cities (mainly ny) making a living out of painting a home team in such a negative light on a winning team so consistently as do the dirty half dozen. Felger chb, tomASSe, borges, volin, and tanguay.

You're right; other cities' writers root for their teams and players.

If the pats were the patriots of the late eights early nineties that would be one thing, those teams sucked.

No.

Local Boston sportswriters inherited, and then mutated and perverted the anger at Billy Sullivan, into unjust denigration of the players and coaches and their accomplishments on the field. If not for Raymond Berry's obsession with Tony Eason, the 80's Pats teams would have been even more successful than they were.

Anyway local bias against the Patriots dates back to the merger in 1970. Which only fueled league- and national media denigration of us. After Flutie was released, the Pats had four losing, rebuilding seasons. Four.

Green Bay had 25 terrible losing seasons between Lombardi and Favre.

The Steelers were historically bad prior to the merger.

The Cowboys were miserable after they fired Landry.

The 49ers had not one but two 2-14 seasons in the late 70's.


Nothing was ever said about them in those stretches that even approaches what was said about the Patriots by people who have nothing but contempt and hatred for us.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

I can see division opponents fans hating the patriots.
I could see rivals like Baltimore, Pitt, Denver and Indy from years ago fans hating the pats.

I can see 9er fans hating that he surpassed Montana, cowboys fans because the franchise has surpassed them historically and I can see Seattle and Atlanta fans still upset over losing SBs.
That’s a third of the fans out there. So it’s nit shocking.

Andy, these guys:

Bart Starr
Len Dawson
Joe Namath
Johnny Unitas
Roger Staubach
Bob Griese
Terry Bradshaw
Joe Montana
Joe Theismann
Dan Marino
Kurt Warner
Drew Brees
Peyton Manning
Ben Roethlisberger

have two things in common:

They aren't hated nationally;

and they do not play for the Patriots

 

[PatriotsReign]

i Never thought i see the day that i would post something by manush meta that was positive about brady or the pats.

Why do people hate Patriots QB Tom Brady so much?

If Brady played for any other team, I’d hate him too

I’m just being honest.

 

[NashuaPats]

There are a lot of good explanations here, but I don't think any of them truly capture it. I have a lot of intelligent, educated, level headed friends who are fans of other teams who have a visceral, irrational hatred of him. I have never gotten a good answer from them for it.

I never rooted for the Bulls but I was always wowed by Jordan. I always hated the Yankees and actively rooted against Jeter, but I always respected them and him.

I think it goes back to the early 2000s when the Patriots and Brady were the media darlings. The media fawned over the Pats and Brady to the point where it almost disgusted even me. Then when Spygate happened, which the media completely misunderstood and failed to report correctly about what really happened, the tide turned completely. They were made out to be villains over what should have been nothing.

Then it was a full court press by the media (because it was a great story for them) and 31 of 32 franchises and fan bases aggressively rooted against the Pats, Belichick, and Brady. Then each year of their success, year after year, the hate has kept steam rolling as it has been ingrained in them for a decade or more. It's way past reason or logic.

 

[reflexblue]

You're right; other cities' writers root for their teams and players.

No.

Local Boston sportswriters inherited, and then mutated and perverted the anger at Billy Sullivan, into unjust denigration of the players and coaches and their accomplishments on the field. If not for Raymond Berry's obsession with Tony Eason, the 80's Pats teams would have been even more successful than they were.

Anyway local bias against the Patriots dates back to the merger in 1970. Which only fueled league- and national media denigration of us. After Flutie was released, the Pats had four losing, rebuilding seasons. Four.

Green Bay had 25 terrible losing seasons between Lombardi and Favre.

The Steelers were historically bad prior to the merger.

The Cowboys were miserable after they fired Landry.

The 49ers had not one but two 2-14 seasons in the late 70's.


Nothing was ever said about them in those stretches that even approaches what was said about the Patriots by people who have nothing but contempt and hatred for us.

Iwas making the point that i could see these guys riping the patriot teams of the late eighties and early ninties, but i don't remember them doing so. I don't know about the dislike of billy sullivan, obviously ther was no internet to read multiple stories on a day to day basis, i read the globe and the hearald. I completely agree with you last sentance, the contempt and hate for the team they cover. I just had a memory that kraft tried to buy the team in the late eighties or early ninties and i got the impression that he was disliked, that certain people didn't want to see him get the team. I can't put my finger on any thing in particular, (it was so long ago) it was just a feeling that they would have rather someone else get the team.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

....and if Brady played for another team we'd all hate him too.

And there is nothing wrong with that. It's called being a fan.

 

[VectorPrime]

....and if Brady played for another team we'd all hate him too.

And there is nothing wrong with that. It's called being a fan.

Yep.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

On average teams should reach the AFCCG once every eight years. Brady has done it three out of every four years he's started most games.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Iwas making the point that i could see these guys riping the patriot teams of the late eighties and early ninties, but i don't remember them doing so. I don't know about the dislike of billy sullivan, obviously ther was no internet to read multiple stories on a day to day basis, i read the globe and the hearald. I completely agree with you last sentance, the contempt and hate for the team they cover. I just had a memory that kraft tried to buy the team in the late eighties or early ninties and i got the impression that he was disliked, that certain people didn't want to see him get the team. I can't put my finger on any thing in particular, (it was so long ago) it was just a feeling that they would have rather someone else get the team.

Yeah, you're right, local media were not fans of Bob Kraft. They still do not like him, to an extent. Maybe because, like Belichick, he's not openly blabbing about things that aren't final and could change, like the Hartford deal. Kraft made some good, smart decisions in buying the team. You can't take that away from him.

But local media jumped right on board with the league/national media torch bearing lynching when an unqualified, inexperienced, albeit vulnerable and emotionally unstable woman entered our locker room in'90 and pretended first to be a sportswriter, and then a rape victim...

And Orthwein, the owner who came here, paid off our debts and bought the team solely for the purpose of moving to St. Louis, had nothing but contempt and disdain for the Patriots.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

If Brady played for any other team, I’d hate him too

I’m just being honest.

Idk about that unless he beats my team. You have to embrace greatness!

 

[Belichick8384]

I remember before spygate, one thing people had against him was that he wasn't this burly, tough-guy QB. He was called a "pretty-boy" a lot. I think that's part of it. He's not the ideal QB in a league that people think of as roughneck & rugged.

Another part of it, I think, is that he isn't relatable to most people. He has this specific diet, trains so much, married to a super model, he's just not the average joe style of person that people wanna see. And that translates to a lot of people that he thinks he's better than everyone else or is arrogant. Like "Oh, you think the stuff I eat ain't good 'nuff for ya? Huh?" That kinda inferiority complex attitude when people are presented with a person that lives by higher standards than their own.

The media circus about "cheating" and whatnot just adds fuel to the fire