for the 'old' Pats Fans

italian pat patriot said:

one question: do you ever thought possible when you followed the franchise in the '60, '70 and '80 that we would have playied now to win the 4th Super Bowl ?

probably i will have an obvious reply but still i'm interested about yr feelings, opinions, sensations

thanks

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Hello IPP...

I know how much you are enjoying this - I am as well.

There is NO way I ever thought we could possibly see the kind of success that we have been fortunate enough to be enjoying this decade.

I remember wishing we would win a PLAYOFF game, never mind a Superbowl!! Then after watching us lose two of them In New Orleans...it happened...the kick was true and we won a Superbowl and then another and another and soon to be yet another.

This ROCKS!!!

My partners kids are boys that are 8 and 11 - when they hear Patriots they think nothing other than winners and Champions. Imagine that, they have never known anything different for their entire lives so far!!

I am so excited and so lucky to be able to go down to AZ with my sons and watch history being made.

For Patriots fans everywhere, we promise to be VERY loud and VERY proud!!

Earliest memories are of the Pats of the late 60s and going to games with my Dad. Stuck with them since then, even after moving away in 87. 7 moves later (Cincinnati, OH, Abilene, TX, Rapid City, SD, Cincinnati again, Lancaster, CA, Warrensburg, MO and finally back to Cincinnati for good this time) and I've always been a Boston fan. When they won in 01, I remember jumping off the couch and yelling 'they did it' enough times that I got the look from my kids. Since then it's been an amazing ride, both Pats and Sox, but for some reason, this year seems to have that special feeling again that 01 had for me.

Pretty amazing considering where we've come from

I remember how the Dolphins used to own us for 20 years - until 1986, and now we own them and we are knocking on their door and if they don't open it, we are just going to bash the door in and evict them from their own house...

PatsFanInVa said:

There you have it, my Patriots life.

PFnV

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Brilliant post! Archive, sticky, whatever ...

after Ben Dreith screwed us in the AFCCG,I just wanted to see one bowl in my life...after the Bears berried us, just one win...now I want it all...the hell with it...UP WITH GLUTTONY!

Someone here put their finger on it... there was always that one player, or that hope we'd make it...

It feels so good now to sort of look disdainfully at my own lust for records and the like... the idea that saying "we have the best QB in the game" or "we have the best D line in the game" is ultimately meaningless... the idea that looking though the list of yards passed for or TDs thrown is kind of cool, but not what it's about.

It took me until the dynasty years to realize that going down the "leaders" board in the stat column was such a sorry consolation prize. Same with the Sox until the World Series years... amazing the change in perspective.

Thanks, Mr. Kraft, Coach Belichick, Tom Brady... all the guys like Bruschi, Vrabel, Graham, Vinatieri, Dillon, Harrison, that were the "core" for so many years. Sorry to the ones that have chosen to watch Super Bowls at home

PFnV

I'm 58 and been a Patriots fan since thier start. I had serious doubts I'd ever see a Patriots championship. Or Red Sox either for that matter. Little did I know that all I had to do was wait for the next century.

italian pat patriot said:

one question: do you ever thought possible when you followed the franchise in the '60, '70 and '80 that we would have playied now to win the 4th Super Bowl ?

probably i will have an obvious reply but still i'm interested about yr feelings, opinions, sensations

thanks

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I started following the Pats in the 70's. I was amazed when both the Pats and Sox won it all in 2004. I would have never have dreamed that in my wildest dreams.

80Brown said:

I remember my Dad fiddling with the antenna on the roof of our house just outside of Providence for the home games back in the 70's. There was a station in Hartford that was not subject to blackout and he would try like crazy to even get a fuzzy signal on a crappy 13" black and white while listening to the call on the radio. Away games were great because we could watch on the regular TV in color.

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simply...GREAT !!!

pats60 said:

Bought season tickets in1960.Today my sons have them.
Hard to believe if there was a crowd of 18,000 it was miracle.
But if it wasn`t for Billly Sullivan there would be no Patriots.
Too bad there is no statue of him outside of stadium.
He could have made a fortune selling the team in 1968.

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well said, i totally agree with you: i consider Billy Sullivan one of the most important persons in our franchise history (in the top 4 with Mr Kraft, Brady and Belichick)

i hope in the future 'Patriot Place' there will be something dedicated to him

Patti37 said:

There has never been a time in my life when I did not love this team and I thank my father and uncles for being such early Patriots fans and sharing that love with me.

Edited to add the like Italian Pat fan, I would occasionally love to see the old uniform. It is part of our history.

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great Patti37 ! and...yes...let's hope finally we will see the Pats with the red throwbacks and Pat Patriot back next season

fgssand said:

Hello IPP...

I know how much you are enjoying this - I am as well.

There is NO way I ever thought we could possibly see the kind of success that we have been fortunate enough to be enjoying this decade.

I remember wishing we would win a PLAYOFF game, never mind a Superbowl!! Then after watching us lose two of them In New Orleans...it happened...the kick was true and we won a Superbowl and then another and another and soon to be yet another.

This ROCKS!!!

My partners kids are boys that are 8 and 11 - when they hear Patriots they think nothing other than winners and Champions. Imagine that, they have never known anything different for their entire lives so far!!

I am so excited and so lucky to be able to go down to AZ with my sons and watch history being made.

For Patriots fans everywhere, we promise to be VERY loud and VERY proud!!

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yes: i enjoy this kind of thread a lot and it would be amazing if someone one day could think about a book: really great great memories and thks to all of you: you participated with pleasure and i read with pleasure too

one day Fgssand we will met at the Gillette Stadium: no doubt

italian pat patriot said:

yes: i enjoy this kind of thread a lot and it would be amazing if someone one day could think about a book: really great great memories and thks to all of you: you participated with pleasure and i read with pleasure too

one day Fgssand we will met at the Gillette Stadium: no doubt

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You just say the word IPP - two tickets with your name on them await!!

I have been a Pats fan for as long as I can remember. When I got married in 1985 my wife and I bought season tickets with wedding money. I was there when the stadium opened, I was there when the fans tore the goal posts down and the guy got electrocuted carrying it down Rt. 1. My wife and I drove to New Orleans to go to the Super Bowl, she was 5 months pregnant at the time. I stayed to the end of the game, left my wife in the upper balcony as I wove my way down to the front row of the stands and gave the Patriots a standing ovation as they left the field. I am still pissed, to this day, at Ron Borges for publishing the drug story the day after the Super Bowl. He could have waited until after the parade that never happened because of his story.

If back in 1985 somebody told me that the Pats would have three world championshis and be the class of the NFL I would have thought that that person was on drugs. Billy Sullivan was a caricature of what a NFL owner was supposed to be, but he was our owner. He used to go under the stands after home games and shake hands with the fans. He would thank them for coming to the game, talk about the game, the league, the team. He was a nice guy with no business sense. I called in sick and went to his funeral, just because.

The Pats are my team. Baseball is too long, hockey is fun to play but boring to watch and basketball, until this season, has been boring since the 80's, but FOOTBALL is a passion. If they never do anything else, this season has defined what greatness is.

I remember when the Pats were going to the 86 SB and Jordan Marsh(Downtown Crossing) was playing highlights on a T.V. of the Pats run to get there and there would be a crowd of 10-20 people watching it.

Remember when Tippett,Lippett & Veris were all hurt and the season was done before it started?
Where the Bruins now stand,the Patriots once stood.

I'm not that old, but I started watching the Patriots around 1983. Since then, I've seen a lot of low-lows and the recent high-highs and I can only hope that I'll remember these seasons once TB and BB are long gone.

Historically, I really wish I was old enough to watch those late 70's Patriots, I loved an old Steve Grogan and would have loved to see him in his youth.

E Belichick Unum said:

I have been a Pats fan for as long as I can remember. When I got married in 1985 my wife and I bought season tickets with wedding money. I was there when the stadium opened, I was there when the fans tore the goal posts down and the guy got electrocuted carrying it down Rt. 1. My wife and I drove to New Orleans to go to the Super Bowl, she was 5 months pregnant at the time. I stayed to the end of the game, left my wife in the upper balcony as I wove my way down to the front row of the stands and gave the Patriots a standing ovation as they left the field. I am still pissed, to this day, at Ron Borges for publishing the drug story the day after the Super Bowl. He could have waited until after the parade that never happened because of his story.

If back in 1985 somebody told me that the Pats would have three world championshis and be the class of the NFL I would have thought that that person was on drugs. Billy Sullivan was a caricature of what a NFL owner was supposed to be, but he was our owner. He used to go under the stands after home games and shake hands with the fans. He would thank them for coming to the game, talk about the game, the league, the team. He was a nice guy with no business sense. I called in sick and went to his funeral, just because.

The Pats are my team.

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great great post too ! i think you will never forget 1985...

Once everyone has had a chance to post their story, I think a permanent stciky may be in order. Just a thought.

PATSNUTme said:

Once everyone has had a chance to post their story, I think a permanent stciky may be in order. Just a thought.

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Just my 2 cents, I think thats a great idea! In Jr. Seau's words from the AFC game "We are now part of forever". Now that books and sticky's have been created, when does the movie come out?

PATSNUTme said:

Once everyone has had a chance to post their story, I think a permanent stciky may be in order. Just a thought.

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great idea (imho); these stories/memories from the fans should, in a way, remain

just, again, my humble personal opinion