Just turned 25 today and was wondering

[jam757]

Probably about 7. That would be 1977.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Yeah, tough to evict my Dad and Uncles.

The old Giants were okay. My dad liked them too...until the Patriots came along.

 

[captain insano]

i became a pats fan when i was 6. same with the bruins celtics and the flop sox.

 

[IndyKen]

I was 11 years old....that was in 1960....

 

[1960Pats]

I was born 11 years before the Pats were born. Prior to the Pats we were being fed Giants games on the boob tube and I became a Browns fan once I saw Jim Brown.

The first Pats game I attended was with my dad at Fenway Park a few years later. The Pats played the SD Chargers with Ernie Ladd.

I feel blessed to have been a Pats fan for all these years.

 

[JJC]

I was 18 and in the military when the Pats became an AFL team......up until then I was a NY Giants fan.......

My dad was a Giants fan, but started watching the Patriots while a student at BU in the 60s. He had the good judgement to raise me as a Patriots fan

 

[jri37]

The old Giants were okay. My dad liked them too...until the Patriots came along.

Yeah, my dad and all of my Uncles but 1 passed away young all firmly Giant fans. My one uncle that is still living refuses to acknowledge the Pats. Unless the SB's come up. I just keep asking him when they are going to make the playoffs in back to back years. He refuses to engage. HAHA

 

[50-yard-line]

8 for the Red Sox (Impossible Dream team), 12 for the Patriots, 1971. Plunkett to Vataha, baby!

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Yeah, my dad and all of my Uncles but 1 passed away young all firmly Giant fans. My one uncle that is still living refuses to acknowledge the Pats. Unless the SB's come up. I just keep asking him when they are going to make the playoffs in back to back years. He refuses to engage. HAHA

I'm sure your uncle is a nice man.

The Giants, more than any other football team, suck.

This has been true for decades prior to those Super (officials' non-call, Welker drop) Bowls.

 

[Seacoast Fan]

Since birth....my parents would have had it no other way. Went to Fenway and saw Longborg pitch in ‘67 but I was pretty young, 9, and don’t remember much. My father had season tickets at Schaefer for a few years and I sat on those metal bleachers many a game. We were so excited when Plunkett was drafted. And suffered through some excruciating years ... getting beaten regularly by first the Dolphins then the Bills...enjoying the current 16 year run immensely.

And happy birthday to the OP!

 

[bormio]

Grew up in NJ as a Mets and Giants fan, but for some reason liked the Celtics and Bruins. Started to like the Sox during the Impossible Dream season. Moved to NE in ‘68 and left the Mets behind after the early 70s. Finally became a Pats fan during the ‘76 season. My Dad always loved the Giants and my brother still does. I still had some affection for them - ended in 2008. My first pro game was Giants vs Cardinals in Yankee Stadium in 1967.

 

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

I’m 25 and my body went to **** at 23 lol. Been following since about 2003 when I was 11.

I always thought you were in your 30s

ty for the wishes everyone

 

[PYPER]

9....1985 Postseason run to SBXX

Die Hard in 1986 (AFCE Champs, lost in AFCD at Den)

Stayed loyal through down years between ‘89-‘93

 

[Froob]

I always thought you were in your 30s

ty for the wishes everyone

Lol Joker thought I was one of the old old timers.

 

[italian pat patriot]

i think i was 18 when american football 'reached' Italy too...

when i saw logo (Pat Patriot), uniforms (red jersey) and the name it was passion and love immediately

New England Patriots was my team

many many years ago...no Super Bowl wins...

 

[DarrylS]

I grew up a Cleveland fan in the 50's, before the Patriots(learned to hate the Giants early on).. hopped on that train in the mid 60's when it started to look as though the AFL was going to make it.. initially watched Babe Parilli who was better than most.

Even then working in Providence, the majority of fans were either Giants, Dolphins or Jets fans.. it never got much better until the mid 80's for a brief period. In many ways as a Patriot fan was looked down upon, we were seldom on TV and used to listen to them on my "walkman", people thought I was a degenerate gambler.. but was just a fan.

It was tough being a Pats fan, when the "Sears Wish Book" or the "JC Penney Catalog" came out would go to NFL merchandise.. there would be rugs, bedspreads and garbage cans with Cowboys, Packers, Giants etc logo's, but never any Patriots gear was available.. until the mid 80's when "Squish the Fish" t-shirts came out...

Then in the 90's obnoxious Giants, Jets and Dolphins would wear their puff coats to work.. Always hated "PukeBlue Dolphins" gear, to this day every time I watch the Dolphins I throw up a little in my mouth..

 

[Steamer86]

First game I recall watching was 1976 regular season game against Raiders (age 6), because my dad attended and I thought I might see him on TV. It was only game Raiders lost that year and we almost beat them in playoffs (Sugar Bear phantom roughing passer). After that, it was on. I was a sports nut because of Dad, and watched or listened to every Sox and Celts game too. We moved to southern NH in 1979 and in early 1980s, Pats often did not sell out, so Boston market got blacked out for TV coverage, which southern NH was part of. Pops would work the giant antenna on the roof like a champ and we would get a grainy picture of the game from the Portland Maine affiliate, who were far enough away to avoid the blackout.....Pops also attended the 1986 Super Bowl against Bears, where late in the game he joined the chant “We scored first!”

 

[Ross12]

@StockingAnarchyNumber12 Hey, happy belated birthday! I'm not much older than you. I became a fan of the Pats somewhat casually in the mid-2000s as a teenager amidst their original dynasty run - I live in Pennsylvania, and so the teams on local TV were generally the Eagles (bleh), Steelers (ugh) or the Jete (outright vomit)... so the games we mainly got into were during the postseason and Super Bowl, where the Patriots obviously had a lot of representation. Pretty much I thought the team was awesome, Belichick was amazing, guys like Bruschi and Vrabel were sweet and Brady was the coolest guy ever so it was hard not to become a fan.

In 2007 during the undefeated season, I took a brief trip to Boston and I just really thought the city was amazing, so my interest in the city's teams including NE was fostered further - I've gone up that way a couple times since and just really dig it. Since then I've obviously evolved from a somewhat casual fan to a huge fan. My son was born just a couple weeks before Super Bowl LI happened so the elation from that comeback victory and having a baby and everything made for a really, really positive little period in my life. I'm still riding the happy train since that time haha.

Also, the body pains start as soon as you have kids. If you don't have kids then you can probably stave them off a little longer.

 

[rochrist]

6. 1961, Babe Parilli. Actually, quite good then, in a new league. Outstanding four man defensive line and Parilli was very good. Held the team record for TD passes in a season until Brady broke it in 2007.

10 and me too. Babe was throwing to Gino for Tds and then Gino would kick the XP.

 

[Joker]

Bounoconti going to Miami broke my heart