Halifax_Pats_Fan
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I have to say as a Jets fan ... It refreshing to hear that Most of you guy to not take the Pats success lightly....
What a bunch of roody poo is this!
What you call blessings I call redemption for years of crud. We are owed this.
Prior to 2001, any success we had was treated with tongue in cheek admiration.
We had the worst stadium, some of the worst seasons the league had ever seen.
As much respect I have for Billy Sullivan for giving us this team, his families administrative decisions made Mike Brown look like the Rooney's.
My memories start with the Chuck Fairbanks debacle. 20+ years I endured, recognizing that my
team was considered a laughing stock of the NFL. But I held out hope and am now being repaid.
I owe and am thankful for NOTHING!
And BTW BTW, where's your Myra Kraft avatar? It takes a lot of nerve to come over here and disrespect her like that!
And BTW, if picking, developing, and promoting Brady was about luck, then so were the events of the last few minutes of the Giant's super bowl win that kept Brady from having his fourth ring (so far).
I'm not sure I know what this means ... but I'd never do that.
I was in the 8th grade when the Pats came into existence. I actually had a cousin who's father purchased some Pats stock, only to have it stolen away a few years later by Billy Sullivan.
Over their history the Pats HAVE managed to have 2-3 decent seasons a decade, while the Sullivans bungled away opportunity after opportunity to create some consistent success. His failures were compounded by the Kiam and Orthwine. regimes, which were BOTH thankfully short.
However, PP, you are wrong in thinking that the Pats success didn't start until 2001. Relatively to the rest of the world the 90's didn't exactly suck. During that 10 year period the Pats went to the Playoffs 4 times including a superbowl run. For 90% of the rest of the league THAT is a good decade and certainly was the best decade in Pats history.
Count our football blessings - Christ is THAT an understatement. What we have experienced over the last 18 years is UNPRECEDENTED in league history, and what makes it so amazing is that it doesn't look like its going to end any time soon. There is an entire GENERATION of Pats fans who only have tangential memories of what a losing season feels like. And when you think how the league has been set up to avoid this kind of long term success, its even more amazing.
Look at the 49er who have struggled to reach mediocrity for over a decade after their run. The Cowboys have one ONE playoff game in over 15 season over being vastly over rated. Even the Steelers have 2 years of dips. Only the Colts and Eagles IIRC can even come close to what we've accomplished here.
Count your blessings?????? Damned STRAIGHT!
I will be very disappionted and perhaps heartbroken (for a couple of days) if they don't win it all this year, as I was last year and after the Giants SB.
But, and this is the truth, I don't forget the plea I made to God back in the early 1990's. I begged God that they do not move my team out of New England and if I could experience just 1 SB victory before I die.
So this great 10 year run has been more than I could have reasonably expected or dared to ask the big guy for.
That is why I get a little short with the spoiled fans who for months and months dwell on a recent playoff loss as if they a entitiled to a SB win every year.
PS, I will change my avatar wehn I get home tonight.
Yeah, the season ending a bit early last season sucked. There's no denying that. It didn't take long though to realize my team had just gone 14-2 in a rebuilding year. It was a great season and I certainly have nothing to complain about.
After the SB 42, it honestly only took me about 30 minutes to get over that game. All I did was think back to 2001, how we were the Rams this time and the Giants did exactly what we did. It made that win against the Rams even more special to me. Getting a 4th championship would be amazing but like you said, one was enough for me, everything beyond that is just gravy. (sweet, delicious gravy )
Great perspective. Well stated.
Post 42 I was @ Disney World the next day with the kids. Thought I'd be away from that awful memory but the masses of New Yawkiz around the pool with SB victory hats less than 24 hrs post game was a nightmare.
Relatively to the rest of the world the 90's didn't exactly suck. During that 10 year period the Pats went to the Playoffs 4 times including a superbowl run. For 90% of the rest of the league THAT is a good decade and certainly was the best decade in Pats history.
Anything less than a Super Bowl win for us this season will be a disappointment.
This contradicts the title of your thread.
I thought the Pats exceeded expectations in 2010. I knew their D would be a problem and their Passing game is overrated. But the team had its best draft, possibly ever and the future is bright.
Yes, it sucked to lose to the Jets, but they were better defensively. It was refreshing to see this team finally change their defensive philosophy to a 4-3.
That said, despite my contrarian posts, I see this team succeeding even beyond Brady's career.