So long and thanks for all the Phish!

[Foxypats]

Best of luck Nova. Hope you achieve everything you want to.
It’s always great seeing other Patriot fans from Canada !!

 

[Nikolai]

Played some hockey out of the Maritimes back in the day and saw every corner of Nova Scotia. Underrated region and very cool people.

Sometimes, you just have to follow the passions depending on where life takes you. I can understand that, even if for me, no matter where in the world or in my life I am, I can't quit this team.

Here's to your next chapter.

Fair winds and following seas...

 

[VrabelJr]

Sad to see you go. I can't believe I've been seriously following the NFL for a little over 30 years now. I was a teenager in late middle school when I started. I was obsessed with the Bledsoe/Parcells/Carroll era. It's scary to think about how much time has passed. I loved the 90's era of football and holds a special place in my heart. 2000's was also something I never imagined happening.

We are in a different era of sports and it just doesn't hit the same way it did 20+ years ago. I still watch because there's nothing else on, but it will never compare to the prior eras I grew up on.

I agree. Late 90s and early 2000s still felt raw and like teams hated each other, even though that may not have been personally healthy for some players. The mass commercialization under Goodell has watered things down. American media in general has been obsessed with nostalgia for far too long, combined with the internet era making it easy to generate low quality content at scale. At least we got to enjoy the good times.

 

[Kargetina]

I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

I have to say that i envy your decision. After winning SB 53, i was content for life, the only thing i wanted was to see Brady and Belichick retire as Pats, and just watch football without expectations. Letting Brady leave and everything that followed made me indignant and bitter, and until this season i wasn't emotionally invested in the team. I missed the excitement, but i certainly didn't miss the stress, anxiety, anger, euphoria, everything that follows a SB run. Even this year, i was deliberately not posting much, not listening to interviews, or following the trade deadline, just so i can maintain an aloofness and not get hit hard if they make it far and lose. Well, i managed to do that until Bo Nix broke his leg, and once the SB became a real possibility, not some impossible goal, the anxiety reared it's ugly head, and the loss has left me numb and empty the last few days. Everyone deals with it differently, some people can move on the minute the game is over, but i can't and it seriously made me reconsider whether i want to continue to invest myself in it. I can't just watch and be indifferent, so it's either this, or going cold turkey and leave it behind.

 

[sturmrider]

I hope the road ahead is full of victories and glory for you. Best of luck.

 

[Halifax_Pats_Fan]

Played some hockey out of the Maritimes back in the day and saw every corner of Nova Scotia. Underrated region and very cool people.

Sometimes, you just have to follow the passions depending on where life takes you. I can understand that, even if for me, no matter where in the world or in my life I am, I can't quit this team.

Here's to your next chapter.

Fair winds and following seas...

Nova Scotia is a great place. Of course I am bias.

I do find that after the Superbowl and once football is over I also go though a bit of a downer time period, its palpable. The week after sucks for sure.

Up here the month of Feb...you are still into winter. We are still in storm season (like one coming today and seemingly every other Sunday night/Monday am).

But shaking those cobwebs off...you notice the daylight actually start to get get a little longer. Going into work is not as dark anymore. The clocks are going ahead soon, and the golf courses, bonfires, beers on the deck/in the garage are on the horizon...a little ways but still on the horizon.

We are a passionate fan base and the investment can be a bit tough. To my fellow Nova Scotian, better days are out there and are always cyclical in coming. The seasons are the best part of where we live. Take good care and perhaps this community will still be around if you reconsider. The arrow is certainly pointing up for this team.

Be kind to yourself.

HPF.

 

[1960Pats]

It was a great ride eh?
Best of luck in the future.

 

[Clonamery]

My Grandmother was from NS, Tusket area.

She was a Wilson (yes, she said that quite often as if it meant something more than a name), bit posh for the likes of me I found eventually though she did find her way to Camden, Maine (after temporary stops in Mass and Cape Canaveral - before NASA) where she could live out her days being dismissive of the uncouth and alcohol swilling types of America.

Her last year on earth was spent getting over herself which I found to be healthy, but was the way of her Lord.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Grandparents on father's side were Wilsons from NS. Came to Foxboro in 1880s. Dirt farmers.

 

[Clonamery]

Grandparents on father's side were Wilsons from NS. Came to Foxboro in 1880s. Dirt farmers.

We're related!

 

[reflexblue]

Thanks for the insightful posts Nova, and good luck in your endevours

 

[Rob0729]

Sorry to see you go. Best of luck. I hope what ever you are going through health-wise gets better.

 

[Boomer B]

Best of luck from a fellow Canuck on the west coast.

 

[itgl72]

Good wishes to you fellow pats fan. I plan on being a fan and waiting for the NEXT ONE.

 

[farn]

My Grandmother was from NS, Tusket area.

She was a Wilson (yes, she said that quite often as if it meant something more than a name), bit posh for the likes of me I found eventually though she did find her way to Camden, Maine (after temporary stops in Mass and Cape Canaveral - before NASA) where she could live out her days being dismissive of the uncouth and alcohol swilling types of America.

Her last year on earth was spent getting over herself which I found to be healthy, but was the way of her Lord.

Oh wow. I know some of the Wilsons from the Tusket area.

 

[Clonamery]

Oh wow. I know some of the Wilsons from the Tusket area.

My sect moved to Mass and then to Maine. Except My G-mother who got around. I have tiny watercolor painting of the Tusket River branches painted by my G-grandmother.

 

[Sect140]

May the Pats be with you.

 

[stcjones]

Well boys and girls, that time has come. After the loss in the Super Bowl I wanted to give it a couple of days before I posted this so that all of you aren't devastated by it (Wait, who is this guy again? -Most of the people here.) but as I have mentioned a few times in the past couple of weeks I've decided my 31st and current year as an NFL fan was my last.

For a lot of reasons, health being one of the biggest ones, I'm no longer going to be paying attention to the NFL. I'll always be a Patriots fan and if I happen to hear about their success I'll be happy for them, but football just doesn't do it for me anymore and hasn't for a while now. I don't know if I'm just gettin old or what but it's just like no matter how hard I cheer or don't cheer it doesn't affect the outcome, and I just feel like I want to pursue other things that I can compete in on my own and find satisfaction from it that way, maybe something like getting serious about an online game or starting an illegal shark wrestling ring and going to every length possible to hide it from the cops and my family, sort of like Walter White but with sharks instead of crystal meth.

As for Super Bowl LX yeah, that sucked but I still feel awesome about this season and think I'm leaving a core group whose best days still lie ahead. I personally didn't feel the chicken little thing about Maye's performance in the Super Bowl, the Seahawks were just that damned good. We ran into a buzzsaw, it happens. I was hoping to go out on top, but those filthy Seahawks had other ideas. Oh well, I don't like losing but it doesn't eat at me like when we get screwed by the league.

My worst moment as a fan: Losing Super Bowl XLII because Mike Carey didn't call Eli Manning sacked in the grasp OR holding on the Giants' o-line.

My best moment: Butler's INT in XLIX. Remarkably in my 31 years as a fan that 10 year span between 39 and 49 were the longest Super Bowl Championship drought I experienced. Truly amazing.

I want to thank all of you for being Pats fans and for being my forum friends, and I wish you all a very long life full of happiness and warmth and all the booty you can go through.

Thanks,
Murray.

Best of luck Murray

 

[IcyPatriot]