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JimmiC
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Ghostcom
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On December 21 2016 01:29 JimmiC wrote: I think the word is smug, no one likes smug. Smug doesn't cover it. Smug is like "Look at me and how wonderful my team is". The thing that gets Patriots hated is "lol look at your team you are shit". | ||
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giftdgecko
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On December 21 2016 01:43 Ghostcom wrote: Smug doesn't cover it. Smug is like "Look at me and how wonderful my team is". The thing that gets Patriots hated is "lol look at your team you are shit". That's true of any teams fans. I don't think patriots fans are any more inclined to do that, it's just more opportunities. The Patriots have had a lot of rivalries over the years so they've butted heads with a lot of teams. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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giftdgecko
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On December 21 2016 01:56 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: I feel like saying "Haters gonna hate" but that just puts me in that category. All I'm saying is that the results speak for themselves. Hopefully we don't have to play the Giants at any point this year. That's the one team that will give us fits. I don't even know if they would since it's a different coach and team style altogether, but I have ptsd from rainmanning and no name receivers like manningham and tyree... Also on the fan conversation, Patriots fans also spend all day hearing how terrible the teams and players and coaches are from contrarian sports commentators looking to piss people off to get responses and get that payday. I don't know how it is in other markets but it's awful here, the baits are real everyday. | ||
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JimmiC
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Ghostcom
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On December 21 2016 01:54 giftdgecko wrote: That's true of any teams fans. I don't think patriots fans are any more inclined to do that, it's just more opportunities. The Patriots have had a lot of rivalries over the years so they've butted heads with a lot of teams. If it was merely opportunities other fanbases would be hating their perennial rivals more yet for some mysterious reason they don't. EDIT: All fans constantly hear about how trash their coaches, players, teams are from the media. It's nothing isolated to NE. Heck, they might even receive less of it from sources outside of NE (no idea about inside - only lived in California, Texas and North Carolina) than e.g. Steelers, Packers, Cowboys. On this topic: There is legitimately a ESPN employed analyst who still claims that Luck is terrible and Colts should've drafted RGIII instead. EDIT2: I'm not even sure where we are going with this discussion, so I'll leave it here. Obviously no fan can be responsible for the entire fanbase and in general most sports fans are pretty nice and chill people. | ||
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JimmiC
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Jaaaaasper
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On December 20 2016 23:26 Ghostcom wrote: Most people dont hate Patriots for their coaches, the players, the winning record, or anything like that. They hate them because of the abundance of Patriot fans who cant seem to simply enjoy their own teams success and be happy with it, but instead shit-talk everyone else. This is a chicken vs the egg situation lol. Pats fans get shit on for being bandwagoners and being just as smug as any other team but Pats fans have been this smug for 15 years where as most teams only have a few years in a row like this. | ||
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JimmiC
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giftdgecko
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On December 21 2016 03:31 Ghostcom wrote: If it was merely opportunities other fanbases would be hating their perennial rivals more yet for some mysterious reason they don't. I meant in meaningful games, obviously division rivals hate each other they are in the way of a playoff birth and play twice a year. But when you lose to a team in a hard fought playoff game it stings more. The Patriots have had so many of these games where there is resentment from a lot of fans. Examples of things that caused feelings: + Show Spoiler + Patriots dancing on chargers logo after Merriman started yakking. Listen to LT talk about them sometime. Anyone who played pats with Harrison back there Raiders because tuck rule Colts because rivalry between two good teams, plus Manning, former division members and played like 12 years in a row after they weren't Steelers because they played in the playoffs a lot, two good teams, towels... Ravens... Harbough and Terrell Suggs (Suggs refuses to say Brady's name) Seahawks because of Pete Carrol (was never given the GM ability and then was let go) and Sherman Broncos with multiple playoff games and Manning Giants own our soul for some reason... TT I think they like us. But fuck Mara Eagles because Superbowl Rams with the fake ESPN article about the Patriots taping a walk through before superbowl I never actually hear anything from Panthers fans about the superbowl loss Patriots knocked the Jags out 2-3 years in a row when DelRio was there Fuck the Jets. Dolphins and Bills are division rivals That's like half the league with some kind of history since BB came. Add to that the fact that Brady has played 31 playoff games so far and is in line to start #32, 2 extra seasons worth of games just from playoffs there's more I'm forgetting. Obviously there's A-hole fans in every base, the Patriots have more bandwagoner's (most of Boston is actually bandwagoner's). But in general, the fans I know are aware of how good this run is and enjoy every minute of it because the team was garbage before Kraft came, and may soon be again. So when someone says "I hate patriots fans", I always ask "Why?", is there really anything different from other fanbases? | ||
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Ghostcom
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On December 21 2016 05:51 Jaaaaasper wrote: This is a chicken vs the egg situation lol. Pats fans get shit on for being bandwagoners and being just as smug as any other team but Pats fans have been this smug for 15 years where as most teams only have a few years in a row like this. Again, it is not smugness that is the issue. Read above. | ||
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GTR
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cLutZ
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Shellshock
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On December 21 2016 12:10 GTR wrote: tfw dak prescott gets in the pro bowl over drew brees and matt stafford are you trying to say 19th in ypg, 16th in td, and less pass attempts than 21 other starters didnt deserve the pro bowl?! | ||
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