Non-New England/Boston fans are always quick to hit me with the guilt of being a spoiled fan. Just want to enjoy it for a couple of hours!
Spoiled? An entitlement isn't being spoiled. Is Prince William spoiled? He can't help he was born the way he was.
Those people should have tried to be a Pats fan from 1970-1995. The Pats were the joke of the league. They were constantly rumored to be leaving town. Hell, their management couldn't make money off a Michael Jackson tour. Being a Pats fan then was like being a Clippers fan before Blake Griffin.
Nothing entitled about being a Pats fan. Our fandom earned being what we are today.
I'm not sure you can say the Pats were the joke of the league from 70 to 95. The Pats went to two Super Bowls in that era (and a lot less of them had been played at that point). There are 4 teams that have never even been to one.
We went to one SB in that era in 86 and got rolled by the Bears. It was the worst SB loss in history to that point. Our next SB was after Kraft bought the team and Parcells took us to the SB in 96, not 95. Before that there was tons of years of being the worst 3-5 teams in the league. They had 4 number 1 picks in that time because they were the worst team in the league. Chuck Fairbanks leaving. The early 80s. Irving Fryar. Terry Glenn, Darryl Stingley, Victor Kiam, James Orthwein, moving to St Louis, moving to Hartford, Will McDonough beating up Raymond Clayborn, Lisa Olsen, Dave Meggett. The list goes on. We were a laughing stock of the league. Believe me I was there the day we tore down the goalposts because we made the playoffs in 85 and then had a guy almost die on route 1 because of it when they brought the goalpost out of the stadium and it hit an electrical line.
We were the laughing stock of the league at the time.
Have any of you ever been to a game in Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxborough Stadium? The aluminum seats. The no parking on the stadium side, the Foxboro Raceway, the crap field, the horrible care of the stadium during snowstorms....