oh please, do tell old wise one
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Well since you asked.
I can only speak to my experience with Pat fans via the internet, I have lived my entire 45 years in OR. Not alot of Pat fans around here and even less Jet fans.
Most all of the Pat fans I have met on the internet have been arogant and and come across as acting superior. The thing is the Pat fans have always been able to back up there smack due to the fact that there team is is very good and more or less first class in all aspects of an NFL team, Once I have been able to get to know a Pat fan I find them to be similar in morals etc. to me and in fact very, very good people. Keep in mind I joined the internet after the Pats won there first SB, so I missed out on the bad times that the Pats suffered.
I can only speak to my experience on message boards, because I have never been to Boston and have only spent one weekend in NY.
After CBS Sportsline message board got shut down around 2004, I joined JI and that is where i spend most my time.
The leading poster on JI with about 40,000 post is a Pat fan. Everytime everyday, he jumps into any and all threads to spout Penny is a noodle arm, Jets have not done anything in 40 years, etc,etc.
Turns out Patsfantex is a good guy, but a total pain in the ass, always disrupting a nice postive Jet thread with the reality of how bad we suck.
This happens on all message boards Colt, Pat, Jet, Seahawks. The troll always get noticed and is seen as just stiring up trouble and being an ass hole. The problem is the Pat trolls are almost always rite in there posts cause there team is so good, this breeds hate.
And then there is the Boston must hate everything from NY, and the NY guy must hate everything from Boston thing, that evidently is ingrained into New Yorkers and Bostonians almost from birth. Myself being from Oregon missed out on this upbringing, which is one of the reasons I have always liked the Pats.
Then there is the whole mentality of rooting for the underdog which causes people to root against the dynasty teams like the Cowboys, 49ers, and Patriots.
BUt I think the main reason the Patriots are seeing so much hate is due to jealousy