Sometimes I start to feel bad for their fans because they've watched us go to the Super Bowl under 3 different regimes and are clearly on the way up right now while they have yet to be in a Bowl in that time.
Then I remember the 90s. The Jets hatred, for me, outstrips everything. It was so personal during those days.
Poison pill contracts, our coach quitting before the Super Bowl, BB quitting on a napkin, the games were so much more charged with enmity than anything that has come after for me. Not the Colts, not the Ravens, not the Steelers, nothing.
I added some punctuation to indicate what I think you were trying to say. And I agree, the 90s were an intense time to be a Patriots fan.
In the 80's there were lots of highlights including making it to SB20. But for me, overall, I was too busy with school then building a career to be much of a NFL fan.
Then in the 90's we had the amazing news that Parcells had been hired, along with the whole Sullivan to Orthwein drama followed by the Krafts swooping in to save the day, building up to SB31. For me I had grown up in the NY media market in CT so was very familiar with Parcells, and his press conferences were must-see TV. We literally would talk about them the next day at work. And we endured the early tough seasons where players like Marion Butts were in our lives, finally culminating with Drew Bledsoe, Terry Glenn, Troy Brown, Curtis Martin, Willie McGuinest, Chris Slade, Ty Law, Lawyer Malloy, etc in SB31. What a time!
But then, the stab in the back. The relatively low-energy Super Bowl appearance followed by the news that Parcells was going to be HC of NYJ. Then the Curtis Martin ********. All this leads to exactly what you said, hatred for the NYJ.
And yes, we got our payback ten times over during the Brady Era, but still, **** the NYJ! And **** Bill Parcells too! He didn't get it done in NY, Dallas or Miami either. Anyone who 'retires' three times is IMO a drama queen.