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[oldrover]

Distance no barrier to traveling Patriots fans

There were a heckuva lot of cheers for the Pats in NO, as I recall. And there will be more tonight in Tampa. Love it!

 

[PatsDeb]

It's true! A friend of mine & her daughter went to NO and said the place was crawling with Pats fans! I hope they are loud and proud tonight! Go Pats!!

 

[tasmlab]

I peeked on the Tampa Bay fan board and some where complaining that this would be essentially a "home" game for the Pats. Which I could totally see, given the amount of transplants, retirees, and vacationers.

I live in SC and there are more Pats fans here than Carolina fans.

Otherwise on the TB board, they seemed like a fair bunch. Think it's going to be high scoring game, lots of respect for the Patriots, aren't counting on winning, but believe they have a good shot of coming out ahead.

 

[archstanton543]

There probably will be a lot of Pats fans there as there are a ton of NE transplants there and this will be the last time they get to see Tom Brady in Tampa.

 

[Tony2046]

There probably will be a lot of Pats fans there are there are a ton of NE transplants there and this will be the last time they get to see Tom Brady in Tampa.

And the first time. I just heard TB has never played in Tampa.