Because they won 2 SBs?
That franchise is rotten to the core.
My dad is a Giants fan and even he admits there is an unjustified elitist quality amongst Giants fans.
Well, first of all, I was really just trying to be "punny". Epic fail, there, apparently.
I'm not sure why they're Giants fans in particular, but they are kind of natively "elitist" and likely would be whether Giants fans or not. My wife and her sibs grew up in the real-life version of Star's Hollow and all attended Ivy League schools.
Anyway, they "mock" the Pats mainly because they're terrifyingly young (late 20s). Thus, they have only a shallow understanding of football and its history (and pretty much history in general), and are extremely susceptible to the manipulative narratives propagated by BSPN, CNN, etc.
They also mock the Pats to try to get a rise out of me, to some extent, and have always been extremely skeptical of (or apathetic about) any explanation I have on any subject. Although I was born in NYC, I'm
from Michigan (which is where my wife and I met), so there's always this unspoken undercurrent to my relationship with her sibs and their progeny that she "married down."