So that is how being shutout feels

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

I'm a scrubby NE fan (been a fan since their undefeated season, just never watched them before that), and have been watching them under a decade. I have been spoiled with a team who keeps winning and always looking like superbowl worthy candidates. Its been an amazing ride so far.

Anyway, this was the first time I've ever witnessed my team score a goose egg after 4 quarters in one game and it was a crappy feeling. I made jokes about Houston scoring 0, then those jokes bite me in the butt. I'm not sad though, we are 3-1 and..


Brady is back!

To the Patriots veterans - How was it for you guys back in the days when NE wasn't a good team and hardly playoff threats? I've been spoiled, but some of you have witnessed the lows. I mean, I don't even get the feeling of getting less than 10 wins.

 

[Gwedd]

Back in the day, any win was a cause for celebration, especially if it was over the Jets, or the Giants. You have to remember that the Giants were, for the most part, New England's football team prior to the Patriots coming on the scene. In fact, for many fans, the Giants continued to be the real football team up hereuntil the Patriots showed they were for real and were here to stay.

So as much as we all hate losing, especially to a division rival, for many of us "older" fans it's a loss, but we see the big picture. It's one game out of 16 in the regular system. As coach points out, the goal is first to win your division. If you win your division, you're in the playoffs. Then it's a whole new ball game.

But as I posted elsewhere, It's now Monday. The sun will come up. We'll go to work, whatever that might be, or school. We'll still love our family and friends, pay our bills, fret over this or that. Life goes on. In this case, it's on to Cleveland!

 

[DarrylS]

What it was like was that we were the laughing stock of the world and the butt end of endless jokes about the Patriots ineptitude..

Most games were blacked out on Sunday as Shaeffer did not sell out, so when I went to work on Sunday had to listen to the games on my walkman.. most folks thought I was a degenerate gambler, they did not believe I was just a fan..

You could not get any "gear" the first t-shirt I got was an off market "squish the fish" t-shirt in 86.. while all the rest of he fans would show up to work in their puff coats of Giant's Colors, Jets Colors and the worse of all Dolpin "Puke" colors.. you would get the Sears Christmas, "Wish Book" and I would got to NFL paraphernalia and no Pats gear was available.. they would feature; Chicago, SF, NYG, NYJ, Miami and of course "America's Team" the Cowboys.. it was like being in an NFL Desert with no water...

Most of us fans knew someday it would get better, just as we believe that this week will be better..

 

[convertedpatsfan]

I think people are making too much of the shutout. We clearly could have kicked a FG near the end at the Buffalo 21 to "break" it if it mattered. It doesn't. We went for the TD, to try to win the game.

Maybe some of you would have felt better today with 3 on the board. But I'm glad the coaches didn't give up on the game.

 

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

@Gwedd - The Giants were our team? Never knew that, thanks!
@DarrylS - That post made me laugh "Degerenate Gambler". Now people just see us as ****y a-holes...
@convertedpatsfan - Man. For me it was a big deal since it was the first I ever witnessed. I'm not sad and get we are onto Cleveland, but as a fan I am just curious of how it felt long before the greatness of NE and am acting like anybody would during their first witnessed goose egg.

 

[archstanton543]

@Gwedd - The Giants were our team? Never knew that, thanks!

Yep, that's why you still see a lot of Giants fans in New England. Take for instance, Red Sox fan extraordinaire, Dennis Drinkwater. He named his company Giant Glass because he's a huge Giants fan.

 

[IllegalContact]

I got hammered pretty quick........watched Deadpool afterwards

 

[Gwedd]

I got hammered pretty quick........watched Deadpool afterwards

Yeah, I poured several fingers of Sailor Jerry's and switched over to NetFlix for some diversion therapy.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

I think people are making too much of the shutout. We clearly could have kicked a FG near the end at the Buffalo 21 to "break" it if it mattered. It doesn't. We went for the TD, to try to win the game.

Maybe some of you would have felt better today with 3 on the board. But I'm glad the coaches didn't give up on the game.

kicking a field goal to nix the shutout would have also meant accepting defeat. Better to go down swinging,

 

[deters]

I became a fan of the Pats as a kid in the mid 90's so I've seen a few bad/marginal seasons but at my young age it didn't bother me so much. Fortunately they've been great ever since because I take losing terribly. My college team however had some really bad years recently and that was very trying times. I'm talking 2-10 bad and being shutout at home by your hated rival on thanksgiving weekend. The bitter bad times remind you how even just an above .500 season is awesome lol. Not once did I waiver in my support and still went to every game which actually helped me vent more since I could yell at the coach to get fired! Now my team is 4-1 and off to a great start and has a chance of winning 10+ games. You just gotta ride out the bad bumps! Plus alcohol helps too...

 

[FourierSeries]

People need to relax. We were starting an injured 3rd string QB.

Buffalo has an asterisk next to their shutout victory.

 

[archstanton543]

People need to relax. We were starting an injured 3rd string QB.

Buffalo has an asterisk next to their shutout victory.

Before today I have a Bills fan friend who bragged about winning in Foxboro the last game of 2014 when the Pats were resting guys. They saw that game as a moment of pride. Believe me, they will put no asterisk besides this victory.

 

[FourierSeries]

Before today I have a Bills fan friend who bragged about winning in Foxboro the last game of 2014 when the Pats were resting guys. They saw that game as a moment of pride. Believe me, they will put no asterisk besides this victory.

But anyone with any football knowledge will.

 

[deters]

Before today I have a Bills fan friend who bragged about winning in Foxboro the last game of 2014 when the Pats were resting guys. They saw that game as a moment of pride. Believe me, they will put no asterisk besides this victory.

Reasoning is a skill idiots don't have which so happens to explain the majority of Bills fans.

 

[Nikolai]

I was visiting my family in CT and as soon as the game was over, I hit the road to drive back to the DC area. As an older fan (became a fan in 1986), it is what it is. My father and I were disappointed, but just like in the old days, you turn the game off, and find something to take your mind off it. That's actually really easy these days whatwith all the distractions we have at our fingertips.