Make sure to tip your waitress!Let me preface this by saying I have no "hater" agenda here. If you scroll up to the start of this thread, you'll see that this diehard Raider fan chose Steeler, Packer and Chief fans as the cream of the crop.
With that out of the way, I live 30 minutes from Gillette Stadium. I run into Pats fans every day who you just
KNOW became Pats fans right around January of 2002, and it's pretty f'n disgusting. When the Patriots were stringing together those horrific 1-15 and 2-14 type seasons in the early 90s, Foxboro Stadium was a ghost town. The players used to go into the stands and personally introduce themselves to the fans -- that's how few of them showed up. I'm speaking from personal experience, BTW. Despite liking the Raiders, I went to New England's home games quite often. This was pre-Directv days, so I could not watch the Raiders anyway.
So of course, every Pats fan I meet these days
swear that they were in the stands during those lean years. Yeah.... right.
Interestingly, not many of them can name more than one or two players on those teams. They usually get Andre Tippett and Irving Fryar. The REALLY good liars will even throw John Stephens out there too!
For those of you who actually
did root for the Pats in those years... I salute you.
Just know that you are in the minority.