Happy 26th Anniversary to Pats Fans

[ErniesPinkStripes]

I think Dabruinz and I both came here from the ESPN boards?

Feels like a million years ago. And like yesterday.

Congrats, Ian! And thank you.

Those boards were fun back then

but this forum is the best sports forum on the internet, fact not hyperbole.

 

[FortressX]

 

[n1997y]

Came here back in the old KFFL days in 2001 I think. Or at least so far back I can't remember exactly when. "Only" 17000 posts so far, but I'm a proud regular in my own fashion.

Thanks Ian

Your posts are a prime example of quality over quantity.

Thanks, and keep ‘em coming!

 

[n1997y]

Thanks Ian.

I’ve got that 20+ on you, and I hope you make it this far as well as I have, including finding and having things to enhance your life as PatsFans has and does enhance mine.

Best wishes!

 

[BennyBledsoe]

If only I had known! I was online in 2000, but I was still kinda gunshy about joining things since the internet was still kinda 'weird' to me at that point.

First forum I ever joined was for He-Man

But I've enjoyed being a part of this for however long I've been rambling around.

 

[Gumby]

Thanks Ian,

Not just for the site, but also for you being you. As board owner you have a large target on your back. It is especially big target when two guys are going at it and crossing boundaries of good taste or respect. You have always been a class act and found ways to mediate a solution. The SamBamGrogan saga just latest case in point. I Tip my cap to you sir.


I found Patsfans by way of the BSPN boards back in 2001. somehow I don’t recall exactly who it was on espn who said it was a more user-friendly place (several chimed in to echo the opinion), but I sorta have the recollection one of the first was NEM ( if you can believe anyone can attribute something positive to him. Lol. ).
I was pretty prolific posting back then as I was deployed to Kuwait in an army ops center and wasn’t much to do after shift. Not too many pats guys there, so I had to post & read a lot to get info, & successfully argue with the other 31 teams fans there in the bar tent. Lol. I and one other guy were the only 2 pats fans in a tent of about 120 watching the silence of the lambs SB, …good times.

I became a perpetual LURKER as my career path changed, got busy and I lost my 10k? Post count in the server crash. (That was kinda demotivating. ). But, Patsfans has been a North Star through my travels across 3 continents 3 careers and numerous jobs-location.

Thanks for everything.