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The U.S. Ryder Cup team is wearing red, so I guess that means they represent the Russians, Redcoats, Romans...
...for the billionth time, Pat Patriot is dressed in historically accurate blue, and when Samuel Adams and Paul Revere dressed and had their portraits made in red, it didn't make them redcoats...
Best of any of the color rush uniforms. Didn't bother me at all.
The U.S. Ryder Cup team is wearing red, so I guess that means they represent the Russians, Redcoats, Romans...
I was a youngster in '67, and afterward I thought it didn't make sense that the season was so celebrated when we lost the World Series. You can hear it in Tim McCarver's voice, he and his teammates never respected the Junior-Circuit Red Sox, and don't understand how Boston reveres them. Things were so dismal in the sixties on the field, and decrepit Fenway was like a crumbling ancient ruin...but a thousand fans greeting the team at the airport returning from a summer road trip? And down the stretch, every day and night, every radio in New England was tuned in see what would happen. It was Boston's baseball renaissance, and it does not matter that we lost. I get it.
That's silly about "universally" etc., but there's something similar to Kraft's deference to Orthwein, and then Goodell - "Sure, sounds good, great" - as opposed to, "That may not work". Invariably, teams remaking their logos and uniforms are using a bush league gimmick to try and drum up interest or establish a new identity. In the Patriots' case, that made sense only to ignorant out-of-towners who knew nothing of, let alone experiencing, thirty-three years of local football competition and history. They followed the media's song and dance focusing exclusively on negative aspects, including only losing records, along with exaggerated and made-up nonsense to support the fiction that the Patriots were downtrodden to an exponentially greater extent than any other franchise. The NYJFL was not created by the change in '93, but the team's world-wide following, from casual to intense fans, took a major hit. It was insulting to loyal fans and corroborated the notion that the team was not worthy of respect, and whatever history there was belonged in the trash. It did open the door wide open to fans who wanted a winning team and neither knew nor cared about the team's past or identity; I've said before it would have been totally appropriate for Orthwein/Kraft to simply rename the team. Kraft cannot have it both ways; you can't take a dump on your heritage and origins, and then try to celebrate and honor it at the same time. Had he taken the opportunity to restore us in '02 it would have been immensely easier than now. Orthwein, Parcells and finally Bledsoe were gone, and we were obviously on the verge of a historical run, to those paying attention. But today, all this great football has been played, wearing this. What, because we once had a home game in Birmingham, we have to forever look like we moved there?!
You speak as if you are the voice of the fan, I have literally heard no Patriot fan complain about the uniforms like you do.
The vast majority of those I've known over the years agree, but as in all sports, none of us feels we have any control over what teams do. It happens all the time (look at the Bruins-ugh). I suppose I might be just as nauseated if the Celtics ruined their regular uniforms, but the Patriots have always been special. The least we used to be able to do is at least watch and root for our team, and in '93 they took that away from us. No matter what happens on the field, they are dressed as the NFL Properties Proto-Flying Elvis Orthwein Marketing Team Spirits of St. Louis/Birmingham Americans of the Arena League/WFL, instead of the New England Patriots of the NFL:
Of course I (we) root hard, but it's embarrassing being in the company of the Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (teams that just had to wreck their logos & uni's). So tacky and tasteless.
Those reaching to justify F.E. want to refer to historical war by comparison. I agree, let's: This is professional football competition, full of history and rivalries and heroes and sacrifice by those on and off the field.
