Actual Pats Fan
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It's pretty simple. The disdain and contempt for the Patriots dates back to the 1970 merger. Players went out of their way to avoid coming to Foxborough, the local Boston media trumpeted every Billy Sullivan error and embarrassment to infinity, the national media followed their lead in denigrating and dismissing every on-field accomplishment by the team, which were in fact very prevalent in the 70's and 80's.
When the Sullivan financial house of cards finally, inevitably unraveled, the media jumped like sharks on anything to portray the team as the "national embarrassment" the league considered them to be, including but not limited to on-field struggles as veterans retired and rebuilding began, and a disturbed young woman who wandered into the team locker room pretending first to be a newspaper reporter, and then a victim. A St. Louis beer magnate bought the team, paid off the debts and prepared to move it back home. But a local businessman refused to be bought out from the land contract, and overpaid by $50 million to buy and keep it here himself. That man absolutely worships the league, and goes along with every and any disparagement leveled at it prior to his ownership, and attributes all the even greater subsequent mudslinging and corrupt injustice aimed directly and exclusively at his team to "jealousy and envy", which of course makes no sense at all.
The team won zero titles prior to the so-called Tuck Rule game when the planet believed there was an injustice. One week later, the team was openly accused of cheating while winning the AFC Championship in Pittsburgh, claims that remain unbridled today. BSPN has lustily gone along with and endorsed all propaganda and rhetoric aimed against the Patriots the entire time, mirroring the league's attitude and policy. BSPN and the NFL are partners. Period.
If he played for any other team, Tom Brady would be a wildly popular national hero.
Instead, Peyton Manning, basically the Joe Thornton of football who got lucky a couple times (thanks to BB for letting AV go; and for stupidly going for it twice in field goal range), is hyped by the media.
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