Semi OT: Anybody a fan of a player?

[ausbacker]

Jerod Mayo. Love him.

 

[DarthHoodie]

My favorite Patriot is not a player, he is the man himself: Bill Belichick.

if he were to leave, I'd go with him, but that's not going to happen. He will retire a Patriot.

My favorite Player on the Patriots is a tie between Chung, Brady, Mayo, BJGE, Woodhead, Welker, Wilfork, the whole offensive line, Ninkovich, McCourty, and Gronk!


My favorite non-Patriot player is.....hmmmmm.......thinking......Would you believe I don't have one!

 

[resdubwhite]

Ross Ventrone.


the state of flux has me back in counselling

 

[pwes]

I'm a fan of the Patriots period. I mean there are other players in the league I like to see succeed probably a different player on each team. And certainly if one of our own leaves I like them having some success. But there is no way in hell I would suddenly start rooting for another team if a single player (Brady or not) were to suddenly start playing in a different city. I'd wish success but I'm not going to stop watching Pats games and start catching all 49ers games. Luckly so far that hasnt had to happen and hopefully it stays that way with all my favorite Pats players being able to stay until they retire.

 

[patchick]

I'm definitely a team fan. The long-term, strategic team-building aspect is a big part of what I like about football. I'll certainly wish ex-Patriots well on occasion (who doesn't want the best for Lonie Paxton?) but I won't follow them the same way.

The one time it makes sense to me to focus on rooting for individual football players is when you get attached to them before they even reach the NFL. Maybe a hometown hero, or guy who managed to make the leap from your small-school alma mater.

 

[NEP4Life]

I'm a laundry guy, but the closest would probably be Welkah.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Brady's the closest, in that, if he left, I would root for his team as well as the Patriots. The Patriots would still come first, though- I'm definitely not a fan of any individual above and beyond the Patriots.

 

[BadMoFo]

The only non-Patriot I ever really cheered for was Barry Sanders.

 

[BradyBranch39]

I have a Branch Seahawks jersey.

 

[WeezyFbaby]

I have a Tracey Porter Saints jersey, i will forever be a fan for what he did to the colts.

 

[Nikolai]

I'm a laundry guy, but I have my soft spots. Brady will always be a favorite, as well as Jerod Mayo, who grew up very close to where I grew up.

As a kid, though, I loved LT. He was a true beast. I secretly hoped against hope that he would come back and play a year for the Pats when Parcells took over.

I was a Slade guy for a while. I wore #53 in high school because of him.

 

[Keyser Söze]

Huge Barry Sanders fan as a kid.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Always been a laundry guy, always will be.

 

[The Scrizz]

I don't see why you can't be both.

Exactly. There are some players I love that I wish were Pats and that I love watching. Would I root for them in a game against the Pats? No f'ing way, but yeah I'm a big fan of some players, even a Jet!

Admit it. Nick Mangold would be a perfect Patriot, is the only not-over-rated player on that team, and has a great beard. I feel sorry that he has to wallow in that **** show in the swamps of Jersey but them's the breaks.

Maybe I'm reading the OP's question wrong.

 

[buile]

After watching Cassel improve on the Pats, then go on to KC... Take Cassel and Crennel, throw in some underdog status: who wouldn't like to see KC do well?

After moving away from the New England area a half-dozen years ago, I ~tried~ to become a fan of more local teams... <shakes head> ain't working out. I just can't get any emotional attachment to any team but the Patriots. I certainly respect and admire others though.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

If you live in an area that is crazy about college football, you generally get attached to or at least very familiar in either a positive or negative way (depending on your allegiances) to those guys from local colleges or local high schools, and play a little more attention to them when they move on to play on Sundays.

Here in south Florida they give the NFL recaps in the paper and add to them by telling you how the players with local ties did (FSU, Miami, or from local high schools). Tebow, Aaron Hernandez, Wilfork, McGahee, Portis, Anquan Bolden, Reggie Wayne, Santonio Holmes (yuck), Frank Gore, Devin Hester, Santana Moss, etc.

Sometimes the slants are little crazy. Like when Fred Taylor wound up with the Pats and hardly played, the local sportcasters would tout the upcoming game featuring "the Dolphins vs. the Patriots and Pakokee's Fred Taylor"

though to be fair when I lived in New England you would hear the same thing. The Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine was never referred to by anything else in the Massachusetts media than "Billerica's Tommy Glavine"

 

[The_Chuck_Rule]

Doug Flutie....all the way!

started with Boston College, of course but followed his career everywhere he went.

Was a joy to root for him and watch him play.

 

[YearbookCurfew]

I was a huge Moss fan when he was in NE. I still rooted for the teams he was on after he left but it just wasn't the same. Brady and he had a connection that most QB WR don't have.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

Doug Flutie....all the way!

started with Boston College....

No, no... that's Natick's Doug Flutie, at least anywhere out West of 128.

 

[FCB02062]

Somewhat followed Sean Jones and Dan Ross because the went to my alma mater, but other than that its laundry for Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and the football clubs in Europe I follow. Oh, and followed Pat Harlow when he went out west because i drank with him a few times