Desperate attempt to override the Malcolm Butler Mega thread.
I think the MBMT will be referenced here for generations to come...I do not think it will ever be matched.
I am partial to the red throwback .........
...only it's
not "throwback". It's real, original, genuine, ours, representative of professional football in New England for thirty-three years. Often we did not win, but we WERE "us" regardless. And, we did in fact win. More than most.
Local media had a field day at the expense of the original owner. ALL of the players, coaches, staff, fans and their families who played, worked for and rooted for the Patriots had absolutely nothing to do with that. Yet, local media dumped all over them, making up and agreeing with created nonsense from opponents and the league, anything to attempt to discredit all of our on-field accomplishments.
This
should have engendered an urgency, even through the inevitably turbulent transfer of ownership, to preserve our professional football team fandom, history and tradition which included excellence equal or superior to most of our opponents.
Instead, faster than a Pete Rozelle express lane Get Out Of Jail Free pass through for the corrupt, racist NFL of the sixties, denigration, hatred, ignorance and malevolent stupidity prevailed on March 31, 1993 and the guy who bought the team less than a year later, kept it here and hired BB just also happened to be the NFL's hazed wimp frat boy milquetoast.