Grew up in Toronto watching the CFL and Mini Mack Herron was tearing up the league with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. When he went to New England, I started watching the Patriots play, something that was easy to do since the Buffalo games were usually blacked out. There's a lot of Canadian fans in Ontario of my vintage because of that. Moved into my university residence and my best mate there turned out to be similarly maniacal about the Pats so we'd watch every game together. Absolutely loved the mid-70's and mid-80's Patriot teams, especially Steve Nelson, Mike Haynes, Ray Clayborn, Andre Tippett, Steve Grogan, Hog Hannah, Sam Bam, Russ Francis and Stanley Morgan. Suffered through the many bad teams along the way but I'm always loyal to my teams and was used to losers (ahem, Toronto Maple Leafs). Saw my only live Patriots game in Kansas City - drank way too much and we got killed.
Then I moved to Southeast Asia and had to follow the games through newspaper articles and magazines sent to me in the mail. Once in a blue moon I'd get to see a game on TV in Bangkok since there was no way I was coming back home from the tropics during football season. Then the internet finally reached us and I discovered Usenet as a way to keep up and discuss the Pats with other fans. It had the added benefit of being functional with the pathetic dial-up speeds we would be lucky to get back then in Cambodia. Now for the last several years we have games on TV (1 in each Sunday time slot plus the Thursday and Monday Night games) and can stream the ones we don't get. It was amazing to be able to watch them play again and I was up pretty much every single Sunday from that point on, either from 1 to 4 AM or 4 to 7 AM watching the game. Now I've moved back to Canada so I can watch on TV and at the proper time - that's nice. Hope to finally get to Foxborough to see them play live at Gilette while I'm here.
Couldn't believe it when we won the Super Bowl against the Rams. I screamed when the field goal went through and scared the crap out of my wife, seeing as it was early in the morning and we were in bed in Vietnam at the time. Can't believe how great it's been with Kraft, BB and Brady over these years.