Why are Patriot haters so jealous of our pride and joy?

Question

It seems TRUE sports fans, whom aren't pats fans, don't jump on this Haters bandwagon, but are in awe of the teams accomplishments.

Hey Squirrel, I remember 1985 very well, that was a different era, century

Foggy, good point, BUT, we know alot of adults on here with the 12 year old mentality

TY football babe, I read it last night, this silverman guy is one of the worst, 2 faced hack journalist around

bob O, 45 -10

Tabbi, my sentiments exactly on Farve

As a fan of the game, I hate no team, I have alot of respect for most teams and players

Answer 1

I agree. While I do believe "true" fans of other teams also hate the Pats, but they have real reason, like the are a long time rival of their team, not because they are tired of them winning or "just because". At the same time they, while hating them, have respect them for how good they are.
For me, I hated the Packers for a while after Super Bowl XXXI, but i have always had respect for their team especially Favre. I would probably say Favre is my favorite player that doesn't play for the Pats. I mean he is amazing, playing at the age he is and still kicking butt. I hate the Dolphins because for a while they were a rival that would always ensure a good game, but now I am actually rooting for them to win a game. At the same time I can say, and be sure about it, that if say next year a team like San Francisco was going undefeated and on their way to breaking all the records, I would be in awe of them, not hating them because they were winning. Well unless they were playing the Pats at some point. but I would have no reason to hate them because they most likely wouldn't be playing the Pats in the regular season, so I wouldn't have a real reason to hate them, plain and simple. I don't hate someone for no reason, that would just be childish.

Answer 2

I'm a Steeler fan from way back, but I have great respect for New England and what they've been able to do these last few years...

My history of following sports is that I have my favorite teams, but I also love watching teams that know how to play the game, because there are so few of those around.

Although I'm a Steeler fan, when New England went into that game at 12-0 , I was rooting for them to beat the Steelers.. one reason is, I'd like to see history made again (real history, not the manufactured, ESPN type "history" that we hear about all the time, such as Doug Flutie drop kicking a FG...big deal...)

Besides, ESPN talks about how great the 72 Dolphins were, but if ESPN was actually around during that time, we would have spent the whole year hearing about the "blueprints" to beat the Dolphins... after all, check out these scores from the 72 Dolphins schedule:

Week 3: Dolphins 16 Vikings 14
Week 6: Dolphins 24 Bills 23
Week 10: Dolphins 28 Jets 24

Their playoff wins were hardly impressive:

Beat Cleveland 20-14

Beat Pittsburgh in AFC title game 21-17 (on a 4th quarter fake punt play...Pittsburgh was in its first playoff ever, while Miami had been to the Super Bowl the year before, losing to Dallas)

Beat the over-the-hill Redskins 14-7 in the Super Bowl.

A lot of people don't remember this, but the Dolphins were underdogs in that Super Bowl... the reason was that they were just squeaking by in their playoff games, while Washington defeated Green Bay 16-3 and Dallas (NFC Title Game) 26-3 in their two playoff games, and were playing much better football than the Dolphins at the time.

I'm kinda getting tired of hearing about the 72 Dolphins all the time. So I for one, am rooting for the Patriots to run the table, even if they meet Pittsburgh in the playoffs. Besides, the Steelers that I grew up watching didn't trash talk...they just went out on the field every Sunday and dominated.

Fans who say that the Patriots only win because they "cheat" don't know the first thing about football. But "waaaah, they cheated" and "waaah, the refs cheated" is easy, and it's a quick fix... beats the heck out of your own team actually putting in the effort necessary to beat them.

It is incredible what the Patriots have done this season. I'm enjoying watching them, they've been on TV a lot this year. I live in Florida, so of course our channels carry Dolphins and Bucs games... it was fun watching the Dolphins earlier this year because Ronnie Brown was on my fantasy team, but since he went down, that team is flat out unwatchable.

Fans of other teams that can't beat them should just STFU and watch the possible history being made... it's fine to root for them to lose, but people should at least appreciate the greatness they've shown this year.

Also, Brady is my fantasy team QB this season, so of course I'm rooting for him to put up huge numbers, even if it's against the Steelers, like he did last week.

btw, the 85 Bears beat the Patriots 46-10 in the Super Bowl, not 55-10... lazy answer on that person's part. It was the 49ers and Joe Montana that beat John Elway and the Broncos 55-10 in Montana's final Super Bowl appearance.

And lol, yeah, there's not a whole lot of difference between some adults and 12-year-olds when it comes to sports... they both can be equally big babies when their teams lose. (I forgot the excuse about the NFL itself being "fixed"). But hey, when I was 12, I also made excuses when my team lost... it wasn't until I was 13 that I knew better.

Answer 3

Yeah, people love to hate the team that is the best. The patriot's are doing amazing this year and everyone else is jealous because they cannot beat them. And the patriot's run up the score which is perfectly fine because everyone tells the press that were cheaters or in the steelers game "guarentee a win" So i think the Pat's will go undefeated, the rest of their schedule strenght is like a D

Answer 4

People have a tendancy to put their own sense of self-worth in their pro football teams. When their team sucks, they hate those that don't. I am a die hard RAMS fan, who lost a SuperBowl to the Pats. I am not a Pats fan at all, not because they beat my Rams or are tearing apart every team they've played this year, but simply because I've never been to New England. If I was a Pats fan, I feel that would be hypocritical. The only team that will beat the Pats this year is the Pats themselves, by letting their guard down against a team they should stomp. Good luck.

Answer 5

I've been to many Patriots and Red Sox games on the road. There are always Boston fans (mostly moved from, etc) at these games, not jus travelling. Outside of New York, the local fans are always trash talked down and they never have a witty comeback, they're just frozen. new Yorkers are pretty good at giving and taking the trash talk but not the Midwest or California. They simply didn't grow up in the Northeast and don't have that type of sarcasm and cycnism.

3 SB Titles means 3 NFC teams that hate us and about 7 or 8 teams in the AFC that we eliminated, we also have prevented everyone from qualifying this year and the Colts dynasty will be of the 24 hour variety.

Answer 6

No offense Darth, but i never liked the Patriots since the whole Snow Bowl with the Raiders and that stupid tuck rule that cost us the game. Now i thinj Brady is a awesome QB and I always loved Moss. I am not hating on them I allready disliked them since like that Game. They are doing a great Job this year, but i still feel that they gonna loose to the Giants.

Answer 7

Yeah...might want to rethink the question and your praise of some of the answers.

TRUE sports fans DO NOT come to a messageboard proclaiming themselves SB Champs 2 weeks into a season.

TRUE NFL fans realize that no win is guaranteed.

12 year old responses normally come AFTER a question that only a 12 year old bandwagon jumper would ask.

Your question is a classic example of why Pats fan are percieved as idiots AND bandwagon jumpers.

Answer 8

Whooooo hoooo! large game. Now shall we see how the Pats and Their followers consume some humble pie. i understand the gamers will, yet those followers are in denial and are so obnoxious that they are going to create some stupid clarification why they lost. Im already seeing accusations in direction of Brady's woman pal. You the understand like the stuff those DallAss followers pronounced approximately romo and Jessica, nicely them Pats followers are doing an analogous element.

Answer 9

I am a Broncos fan, but I hope the Pats go undefeated. Be nice to see a team do it in this day and age. Besides, my team blows this season.

Answer 10

I'm not jealous of them, I am sick of the arrogance of the fans to be honest. I realize success is a somewhat RECENT thing to them, but they need to calm down some. I admit I wasn't alive for the Steelers of the 70's, I don't know how those fans acted when in a somewhat similar position. I also admit we didn't have the internet back then, so it still wouldn't have looked as bad, because you wouldn't likely see the worst of it. Yeah I had an advantage of growing up with a successful team like that. I got excited when my Pens started have a good season last year in the NHL, BUT I wasn't out talking trash. I simply got excited for my team. The Patriots fans RUIN the team, almost as much as Brady is lately. I think he and Randy Moss switched personalities or something. Moss used to be the annoying one, but this year he hasn't been a problem. Brady on the other hand runs down the field to trash talk a defender, and why didn't the NFL flag him for taunting. Brady went to Smith and didn't go to join Moss in celebrating or anything, so don't tell me that was a TD celebration with his receiver. Then he tries to get up in the face of the guy HE bumped into. To be honest I could care less about the team. I hope they don't go undefeated. You want to call that being jealous or hating fine. I call it arrogance from them and the cheating they were CAUGHT doing, and last the FANS. If those fans learn to grow up and act mature then I probably won't mind the team as much.