So, who’s watching Super Bowl LIV?

[LexWest]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

I plan on watching it and rooting for Garoppolo. I see him as a disciple of Belichick and Brady and I hope he does well.

It should be a good high scoring games with both teams having explosive offenses.

Of course the ultimate game would have had Brady facing Garoppolo. That would have been epic.

Maybe...maybe not with the way the offense had played this season.

Originally Posted by mdovell

Eh.. all things being said the Patriots had a good run. That last game I could tell they'd lose by the first half. That being said I'll probably watch a bit, more for the commercials then anything else.

A few years back that McGregor fight was a second superbowl. I'd like to see old school boxing come back but UFC is too big. Of course there's the new football league which I'm pretty skeptical given what happened to USFL back in '83.

For a long time you had football practically year long. If you overlayed the NFL (september to february) with NFL Europe (march to may?) and Arena Football (may to august). Arena was a nice concept but it's gone, NFL Europe I think is gone.

To be honest things are different. We have a whole generation that grew up with Boston teams winning left and right. It takes awhile to build a team. The sad thing is in sports often times there can be top talent bought out but it doesn't always work for the team or player.

This occurred to me as well. There are some fans who were young, or weren’t born the last time the Patriots didn’t advance past the first round, or missed the playoffs altogether. I was also surprised how casual some fans I came across really were, and not all were young. They can’t watch a game when they’re losing, for example. A few were even surprised they were in the Wildcard round. “You mean, it’s not in their favor this year?” Evidently they haven’t watched the games, and it blew my mind. It will be interesting what happens in years to come and how fans will react if the Patriots are different than previous years... .

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by LexWest

It will be interesting what happens in years to come and how fans will react if the Patriots are different than previous years... .

It will be nice to be able to get tickets to Gillette as the bandwagon fans leap off the bandwagon. I remember sitting on those nasty bleacher seats at Sullivan Stadium where it was less than half full and the game was blacked out on TV. The season before they drafted Bledsoe was the worst.

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

It will be nice to be able to get tickets to Gillette as the bandwagon fans leap off the bandwagon. I remember sitting on those nasty bleacher seats at Sullivan Stadium where it was less than half full and the game was blacked out on TV. The season before they drafted Bledsoe was the worst.

I'm both looking forward to and dreading this. I'm looking forward to the affordable tickets, but not the rest of it. I'm just old enough to remember the Patriots perennially sucking. There's a generation of people, now in their teens and 20s, that have no actual memory of starting a season where the Patriots were not considered a contender. I think a huge percentage of them are going to personify the worst of sports fans and cement the negative stereotypes already out there.

I love the team, but I have long had an issue with Patriots fans who can be just the absolute worst - not unlike Yankees fans in the late 90s/early 2000s where they were just so sure they were the best ever and couldn't be beat. The arrogance is next level, and the extent to which they whine when things don't go their way is laughable (the latter issue is one I also really have with Bruins fans - it's always the ref's fault when they lose). I don't want to see the Patriots lose, but I would love for the "pink hats" to go away, just like they largely have for the Red Sox. There was a stretch from about 2003 through 2007/8 where Sox fans were insufferable. The Patriots are even worse than that now. I'd like to weed out as many of the bad apples as possible.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by lrfox

I'm both looking forward to and dreading this. I'm looking forward to the affordable tickets, but not the rest of it. I'm just old enough to remember the Patriots perennially sucking. There's a generation of people, now in their teens and 20s, that have no actual memory of starting a season where the Patriots were not considered a contender. I think a huge percentage of them are going to personify the worst of sports fans and cement the negative stereotypes already out there.

I love the team, but I have long had an issue with Patriots fans who can be just the absolute worst - not unlike Yankees fans in the late 90s/early 2000s where they were just so sure they were the best ever and couldn't be beat. The arrogance is next level, and the extent to which they whine when things don't go their way is laughable (the latter issue is one I also really have with Bruins fans - it's always the ref's fault when they lose). I don't want to see the Patriots lose, but I would love for the "pink hats" to go away, just like they largely have for the Red Sox. There was a stretch from about 2003 through 2007/8 where Sox fans were insufferable. The Patriots are even worse than that now. I'd like to weed out as many of the bad apples as possible.

Agree. This generation is insufferable. Red Sox and Pats fans.


They should be forced to sit and watch Grogan (my man) and Eason against the Bears defense on repeat for a long weekend.

[bohemka]

Originally Posted by timberline742

Agree. This generation is insufferable. Red Sox and Pats fans.


They should be forced to sit and watch Grogan (my man) and Eason against the Bears defense on repeat for a long weekend.

Ha! We should all do that anyway. Maybe wear foam collars and chug Gansetts on our couches and complain about Grogan not being surrounded by enough "weapons."

But seriously, can we have those uniforms back? At least the helmet?

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by bohemka

Ha! We should all do that anyway. Maybe wear foam collars and chug Gansetts on our couches and complain about Grogan not being surrounded by enough "weapons."

But seriously, can we have those uniforms back? At least the helmet?

The Patriots had some good players during their “enigmatic” years. Stanley Morgan. Russ Francis. Sam Cunningham. They were just really inconsistent.