Sellout streaks with no fans

Pats at close to 280 I think. Broncos and Packers have a long one too.

If the season starts with no fans allowed at games does that actually snap the sellout streaks? Technically it shouldn’t because there are no tickets to sell...

sb1 said:

Pats at close to 280 I think. Broncos and Packers have a long one too.

If the season starts with no fans allowed at games does that actually snap the sellout streaks? Technically it shouldn’t because there are no tickets to sell...

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Ask Bob Kraft? I can't think of anyone who would really care.

Clonamery said:

Ask Bob Kraft? I can think of anyone who would really care.

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I’m sure many people don’t but I do. It’s fun to bring it up and leave thr Patriot haters who say we have no fans before 2001 speechless. Lol

SB1 = Packers fan

FWIW, I don't think that's an official NFL statistic, so it's whatever the team says it is.

sb1 said:

It’s fun to bring it up and leave thr Patriot haters who say we have no fans before 2001 speechless. Lol

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You'd have to be in your late 30's or older to legitimately have never been a fan prior to 2001 to then be accused of being a bandwagon fan. But who cares AT THIS POINT. It's 2 decades of winning. The bandwagon ****'s out the window...

Do you all remember the days of 'blackouts" because they did not sell out?? I used to walk around at work with my Sony Walkman and other folks thought I was a "degenerate gambler" to which I would respond, "no just a Pats Fan"....

Oh those were the days when any of this really mattered.. not so much today.

DarrylS said:

Do you all remember the days of 'blackouts" because they did not sell out?? I used to walk around at work with my Sony Walkman and other folks thought I was a "degenerate gambler" to which I would respond, "no just a Pats Fan"....

Oh those were the days when any of this really mattered.. not so much today.

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A real fan lives thru the 2-14 and 1-15 years(81,90,92- For reference, team won 14 games TOTAL from 90-93).. Yes newbies, there were a few of those.... Back in the days when if the stars aligned and everything broke right, the team might, and I stress might win.. Not like in recent years, where you expected them to win every game and got pi**ed if they lost, even to a very good team....

I live in northeast MA and in the 'bad-team era' I had a dedicated long-range TV antenna pointed to the north (since the general one was pointed to Boston to the south to get those stations) so I could get Channel 6 out of Portland ME in order to watch blacked-out games... I'd hook it up for early Sunday games (unusual to get any other slot unless a west coast team because the Patriots sucked) and revel in my cleverness over circumventing what I always thought was a stupid rule: yeah, lets block out fans of a team without enough fans to fill a stadium...

sb1 said:

Pats at close to 280 I think. Broncos and Packers have a long one too.

If the season starts with no fans allowed at games does that actually snap the sellout streaks? Technically it shouldn’t because there are no tickets to sell...

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These Are the Most Incredible Active Sellout Streaks in Sports

Those of you guys who lives in New England had it easy. At least you had access to patriots news and got to see them play, win or lose.
I just finished third grade when we moved to Pittsburgh in the summer of 1985 just as the Celtics won the Eastern Conference and we’re starting the Lakers series.
I had just discovered football that season and fell in love with the red white and blue and Pat patriot logo. There was almost no opportunity to ever watch the team on TV. Obviously no Internet...
I would tape the Monday night game and Sunday night game the Patriots would be on TV and watch it over and over.
ESPN Primetime was the only opportunity to even “see” them for a few minutes.
When we would come back to Boston to visit family during Thanksgiving or Christmas, I’d get a chance to watch the Pats.
Trying to explain this to my kids just makes me sound old and they can’t comprehend a world without easy access.

Every team is more popular and has its fan base swell during the good times. The Pats have tons of loyal fans so they'll be fine after some of the front runners move on.

Clonamery said:

You'd have to be in your late 30's or older to legitimately have never been a fan prior to 2001 to then be accused of being a bandwagon fan. But who cares AT THIS POINT. It's 2 decades of winning. The bandwagon ****'s out the window...

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I assume you mean younger not older. I just think is funny people still say this about us and they do.

Doctor DDS said:

Every team is more popular and has its fan base swell during the good times. The Pats have tons of loyal fans so they'll be fine after some of the front runners move on.

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Yes we do. The pink hats can go follow Tommy to Tampa Bay and become Bucs fans the rest of us are looking ahead to the reset. I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait to see what happens on the other side. In Bill I trust.

I mean, the point could be made that the stadium is at max allowable capacity and so the streak would continue.

I fully expect to see fans in the seats when the season starts. Any public official who tries to keep the fans out of the seats is playing with fire, and probably risking their very lives if they work to keep the fans away.

sb1 said:

I’m sure many people don’t but I do. It’s fun to bring it up and leave thr Patriot haters who say we have no fans before 2001 speechless. Lol

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Sadly in my experience those idiots are seldom rendered speechless, they just move on to some other equally fatuous BS. Rinse, lather, repeat ad nauseum. The only thing I bother doing is the occasional knowing grin with an infrequent slight head shake. If it continues overlong I might add "Yeah I get it, six Lombardis has to be tough for you to choke down." While thinking to myself 'I survived the Sullivans & Kiam and man was I ever rewarded for it. I got mine you poor frustrated chump.'

sb1 said:

Yes we do. The pink hats can go follow Tommy to Tampa Bay and become Bucs fans the rest of us are looking ahead to the reset. I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait to see what happens on the other side. In Bill I trust.

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Jesus you cant make it through a day without finding some way to get at "Tommy" in some manner can you? We get it sb1, we get it. FYI sell outs are based on tickets sold, not how many show up at a game. I've been a Pats fans since the Grogan days even though I had no way to watch many games in rural Vermont, not even on TV. I got on the wait list in 99 when Kraft played with the Hartford move because it would put me an hour closer to the stadium. I Finally got my seats in 2009 and I've renewed every year since. If fans are allowed I'll be there. Ill also be routing for Brady and Gronk with the Bucs in the NFC. That doesnt me or other "pink hats". The real pink hats were the red seat crowd that never seemed to make it back to their seats until close to the 4th quarter after halftime.

PatsWSB47 said:

Jesus you cant make it through a day without finding some way to get at "Tommy" in some manner can you? We get it sb1, we get it. FYI sell outs are based on tickets sold, not how many show up at a game. I've been a Pats fans since the Grogan days even though I had no way to watch many games in rural Vermont, not even on TV. I got on the wait list in 99 when Kraft played with the Hartford move because it would put me an hour closer to the stadium. I Finally got my seats on 2009 and I've renewed every year since. If fans are allowed I'll be there. Ill also be routing for Brady and Gronk with the Bucs in the NFC. That doesnt me or others pink hats. The pink hats were the red seat crowd that never seemed to make it back to their seats until close to the 4th quarter after halftime.

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Uh, that’s his name no? I wasn’t implying you were a pink hat. If sellouts are based on tickets sold then will no fans mean 0 tickets sold out of 65,000 or 0 tickets sold out of 0? The latter shouldn’t snap any sellout streak.

R.e. blackouts....I totally remember listening to the games on whdh with Dale Arnold doing pbp....

Also my earliest Pat's memory was probably 81 or 82 when my father took me to the ground round on divorced dad Sunday. They had a giant pull down projector and they showed all the Pats game on TV - which was almost exclusively road games at this time. I watched the Pats play Houston and Earl Campbell while eating popcorn and inhaling multiple slider sundaes - the ones served in the little plastic MLB team helmets