Agreed over the Giants. A lot of Buffalo's games are blacked out every year, despite hovering around .500 most of the time. And Oakland? They play in front of a half-empty stadium by the 3rd game of every year! Look at it this way - our lean years were early on, Oakland's lean years are now, so when teams win, stadiums and fan bases grow, and when teams lose, people aren't into it as much. We have a longer sell out streak than Philadelphia does (by a longshot), and they are always competitive. Can you name 10 better fan bases than us?
Carolina?
Atlanta?
New Orleans?
San Diego?
Indy?
Cinncy?
Arizona?
Houston?
MIAMI? (another team that has played to small crowds for years now)
Jets (look at that stadium at kick off - there are 1,000's of those ugly orange seats that no one shows up for if it even rains - I noticed this while watching the Denver game in NJ this yr)
Jacksonville?
Minnesota?
St Louis?
If any of these cities had as bad football teams for as many years the Boston area had, they would have packed up and moved. The fact that we had 30 yrs of awful football here and didn't move anywhere (despite specuation) is a testement to the local fan base. Bob Kraft realized the fan base was here for a hugely successful franchise, all he needed to do was find a way to extract it out...
