Worst SB since Arizona and Pitt? (1 Viewer)

[DropKick]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now. Anyone want to bet on how low the ratings will be? Probably the lowest in 10 years or so I'm guessing.

While not great on paper that was a great game. The ratings will be fine - it's the SB. I'd watch if it was a Raiders/Bucs rematch with Tim Brown narrating.

 

[cobalt_27]

Once Brady is done can I assume all the Pats fans will dissapear back into the abyss they crawled out of in the late 90's? If LA can wait a few years longer to get a team, the Pats can move there and switch one fair weathered fan base for another.

Patriots' fans loved Steve Grogan and Drew Bledsoe before Brady and Gino Cappelletti before them. You know very little about the history of the team. Perhaps you only recognized the team in the Brady era but we don't live in your world.

No. This is such revisionist history. Boston is such a bandwagon city. They go ape #### when the Sox are good, and you can't GIVE your tickets to Fenway away when they are bad, as was the case this last year. The Pats were setting attendance lows and were threatening to move the team before Parcells came in tow. Like every Boston team, great fan support and merchandise sales follow with success, but the culture here breeds ambivalence and outright abandonment when they lose. Boston fans are the worst. Imposters. At least fans in Miami and Los Angeles will admit they're fair weather fans. Boston fans would have you believe they are died in the wool. They're lame at best.

 

[lsutigers]

Since nobody else has, I'd just like to point out the Arizona and Pittsburgh SB was one of my favorites.

 

[munchkin]

Once Brady is done can I assume all the Pats fans will dissapear back into the abyss they crawled out of in the late 90's? If LA can wait a few years longer to get a team, the Pats can move there and switch one fair weathered fan base for another.

Patriots' fans loved Steve Grogan and Drew Bledsoe before Brady and Gino Cappelletti before them. You know very little about the history of the team. Perhaps you only recognized the team in the Brady era but we don't live in your world.

No. This is such revisionist history. Boston is such a bandwagon city. They go ape #### when the Sox are good, and you can't GIVE your tickets to Fenway away when they are bad, as was the case this last year. The Pats were setting attendance lows and were threatening to move the team before Parcells came in tow. Like every Boston team, great fan support and merchandise sales follow with success, but the culture here breeds ambivalence and outright abandonment when they lose. Boston fans are the worst. Imposters. At least fans in Miami and Los Angeles will admit they're fair weather fans. Boston fans would have you believe they are died in the wool. They're lame at best.

Revisionist? You speak for the entirety of New England? Bandwagon hopping is a National Sport. Yankee Stadium can empty out pretty quick too. Same with Stadiums in San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and Minnesota. It's human nature to follow trends or fads. That's why we are left to suffer with Brittany Spears, Justin Beiber, The Monkees and Reality TV. Fans don't abandon their teams. The casual fan isn't going to pay $100 bucks to sit in some crappy seat in Fenway to watch an underachieving/dysfunctional team. The die hard will. The Bruins kept throwing crap at the wall. Yet the converted continued to show up. It wasn't until the Jacobs family got serious about sporting a competitive team that the arena filled up again. I can tell you the Avalanche have plenty of empty seats where several years ago you couldn't get a ticket. It's cyclical my friend.

 

[cstu]

Once Brady is done can I assume all the Pats fans will dissapear back into the abyss they crawled out of in the late 90's? If LA can wait a few years longer to get a team, the Pats can move there and switch one fair weathered fan base for another.

Patriots' fans loved Steve Grogan and Drew Bledsoe before Brady and Gino Cappelletti before them. You know very little about the history of the team. Perhaps you only recognized the team in the Brady era but we don't live in your world.

No. This is such revisionist history. Boston is such a bandwagon city. They go ape #### when the Sox are good, and you can't GIVE your tickets to Fenway away when they are bad, as was the case this last year. The Pats were setting attendance lows and were threatening to move the team before Parcells came in tow. Like every Boston team, great fan support and merchandise sales follow with success, but the culture here breeds ambivalence and outright abandonment when they lose. Boston fans are the worst. Imposters. At least fans in Miami and Los Angeles will admit they're fair weather fans. Boston fans would have you believe they are died in the wool. They're lame at best.

Oddly enough, I was a Patriots fan prior to them winning the SB and stopped once they won it. I started following them in the mid 80's as a fan of Andre Tippett (who played for Iowa) and then later became a big fan of Bledsoe. When I was lucky enough to see a game there were always tons of empty seats prior to Bledsoe being drafted. I don't think attendance was an issue during the Bledsoe years but most NE fans aren't the hard core fans they claim to be.

 

[Raider Nation]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

 

[mad sweeney]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

 

[Raider Nation]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

None taken. It's easier to deal with losing by 50 than losing by 1.

 

[mad sweeney]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

None taken. It's easier to deal with losing by 50 than losing by 1.

I just feel bad for Jim's dog.

 

[Wingnut]

 

[beef]

It was until lightsgate.

 

[cstu]

It was until lightsgate.

Still is.

 

[Grady Wilson]

So much for this being a "bad" Super Bowl.

 

[Raider Nation]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

It turned out to be the wrong conclusion AND the wrong reasoning. Too bad the OP has been banned. This would have been fun.

 

[mad sweeney]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

It turned out to be the wrong conclusion AND the wrong reasoning. Too bad the OP has been banned. This would have been fun.

I still feel dirty for cheering for the Ravens. But I did enjoy it more than I had thought I would.

 

[Raider Nation]

Maybe even worse. At least we get to laugh at Ray for losing in the Superbowl now.

Right conclusion. Wrong reasoning.

No offene, but this is even better than the TB-Oak SB and is my favorite non-Seattle SB ever if the score holds up.

It turned out to be the wrong conclusion AND the wrong reasoning. Too bad the OP has been banned. This would have been fun.

I still feel dirty for cheering for the Ravens. But I did enjoy it more than I had thought I would.

It didn't feel like a great game until the last quarter. Not just because the game was a blowout early, but also because of the delay and the fact that Nance and Simms were so calm; as if it was a preseason game.