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Post by Shelly on Jun 11, 2020 10:40:24 GMT -5
Here is another one. Me, it it 53 years. Please only include those years since when you were old enough to know about rooting for the team.
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Post by oklahomapatriot on Jun 11, 2020 10:41:49 GMT -5
I starting rooting for the Patriots back in 1968 when I started playing organized football as a kid.
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Post by philskiw on Jun 11, 2020 10:47:47 GMT -5
I starting rooting for the Patriots back in 1968 when I started playing organized football as a kid. your not a New Yorker band wagon fan 67 for me playing FB as well.
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Post by oklahomapatriot on Jun 11, 2020 10:57:44 GMT -5
I starting rooting for the Patriots back in 1968 when I started playing organized football as a kid. your not a New Yorker band wagon fan 67 for me playing FB as well. phil i don't understand what you're asking?
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Post by olemiss on Jun 11, 2020 11:01:22 GMT -5
Since Hector was a Pup! I remember Ron Sellers and Ron Burton! Do U Shell?
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Post by agcsbill on Jun 11, 2020 11:41:17 GMT -5
Since Boston Patriots!
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Post by mbeaulieu07 on Jun 11, 2020 12:26:36 GMT -5
My first memory of the New England Patriots was "Squish the Fish"... I was 7.
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Post by lioneljoe on Jun 11, 2020 12:49:45 GMT -5
It’s was around 1970 for me when they build their first stadium just up the road from my house.
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Post by rkarp on Jun 11, 2020 13:02:24 GMT -5
57 years
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Post by wonderdrums on Jun 11, 2020 14:16:34 GMT -5
1980 for me. I was 6 years old. I remember my first Patriots hat. I got stitches from playing hockey and after the ER my dad took me to the local sports store (Tony Lucci’s/ Medford square) to pick out a little something for being a good trooper. I picked a Patriots painters cap. Lol. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually the brim disintegrated from wear and tear. www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vtg-england-patriots-painters-cap-80s-542956781It looked very similar to this.
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Post by jri37 on Jun 11, 2020 14:23:35 GMT -5
A long time.
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Post by bostonsportsfan111 on Jun 11, 2020 14:40:38 GMT -5
My first memory of the New England Patriots was "Squish the Fish"... I was 7. I was at the Squish the Fish game. I was 24 or 25... I think we flew down Thursday night. It was a package deal, so it was all Pats fans. At one point they threatened to 'turn the plane around if they smelled weed in the bathroom one more time'...
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Post by froglegs on Jun 11, 2020 14:58:08 GMT -5
1986: first SB (XX) I ever watched in my life. Of course I had to stand for the underdogs. :-)
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Post by mikeod on Jun 11, 2020 15:26:27 GMT -5
From the beginning. Playing at Fenway. So glad to not have the Giants force fed every Sunday, though I did enjoy YA and Shofner, Rosie Grier, Spider Lockhart. OMG Gotta stop it! OK think Nance, Gino, that’s better.
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Post by rich on Jun 11, 2020 15:50:19 GMT -5
Since 1960. I watched the Giants with my father before that and was thrilled when the AFL was formed and we had our own team in Boston! I’ve been an avid fan ever since and a season ticket holder since 1994. I’m very excited about this year. We are going to surprise the league!
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Post by digger0862 on Jun 11, 2020 16:07:10 GMT -5
I got hooked on the Patriots during the 1976 season but I remember watching OJ run for 250 yards against us in 1973. That was the season he rushed for over 2000 yards in 14 games.
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Post by kjfitone on Jun 11, 2020 17:31:26 GMT -5
The first game i went to was in oct of 1971 vs the colts at Shaffer Stadium. Not a lot of passing back then. Unitas and morrall split qb duties that day for baltimore while jim plunkett threw for a whoppinh 62 yards. Patriots lost 23-3. Ive been a fan since that day.
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Post by pauldeba on Jun 11, 2020 17:50:25 GMT -5
Lived less than 1 mile from Schaefer Stadium when I was a kid and went to the grand opening in August 1971, I remember the Ferris where and all the excitement about Plunkett. Without Plunkett, there was no Grogan, without Grogan we may not have had Bledsoe and without Bledsoe there’s no Brady. All roads lead back to that opening day game.
Interestingly, every Raiders Super Bowl victory was QB’d that day and 3 QBs completed passes that led the Raiders to 4 of their 5 Super Bowl appearances
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Post by tanbass on Jun 11, 2020 18:30:00 GMT -5
I moved to MA in 76, I was in 5th grade. Lots of pain before Brady & Belichick.
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Post by belestrator on Jun 11, 2020 18:48:43 GMT -5
Moved back to my native New England from upstate NY, back in 1984. Started going to the games and quickly shifted my allegiance from the Bills to the Pats. Loved the Eason/Grogan QB controversy back in those days and their 85/86 road to the SB.
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Post by mikeod on Jun 11, 2020 19:19:06 GMT -5
Lived less than 1 mile from Schaefer Stadium when I was a kid and went to the grand opening in August 1971, I remember the Ferris where and all the excitement about Plunkett. Without Plunkett, there was no Grogan, without Grogan we may not have had Bledsoe and without Bledsoe there’s no Brady. All roads lead back to that opening day game. Interestingly, every Raiders Super Bowl victory was QB’d that day and 3 QBs completed passes that led the Raiders to 4 of their 5 Super Bowl appearances OMG, I went to that game, sort of, with my dad and younger brother. We didn’t even get to the lot when the alternator belt on the car snapped. We pushed it onto a grassy area and dad gave me my ticket and asked me to take care of the car. I walked down the road a ways and found a gas station open and got a new belt (at a significantly premium price) and walked back to the car and installed it. Finally got to my seat on that beautiful aluminum bench, after trying to find a men’s room that worked, just in time for the 4th quarter. Then the great fun trying to get on the road. Not one of my fondest memories.
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Post by pauldeba on Jun 11, 2020 19:30:16 GMT -5
Lived less than 1 mile from Schaefer Stadium when I was a kid and went to the grand opening in August 1971, I remember the Ferris where and all the excitement about Plunkett. Without Plunkett, there was no Grogan, without Grogan we may not have had Bledsoe and without Bledsoe there’s no Brady. All roads lead back to that opening day game. Interestingly, every Raiders Super Bowl victory was QB’d that day and 3 QBs completed passes that led the Raiders to 4 of their 5 Super Bowl appearances OMG, I went to that game, sort of, with my dad and younger brother. We didn’t even get to the lot when the alternator belt on the car snapped. We pushed it onto a grassy area and dad gave me my ticket and asked me to take care of the car. I walked down the road a ways and found a gas station open and got a new belt (at a significantly premium price) and walked back to the car and installed it. Finally got to my seat on that beautiful aluminum bench, after trying to find a men’s room that worked, just in time for the 4th quarter. Then the great fun trying to get on the road. Not one of my fondest memories. There were only three gas stations Gulf or Chevron and Mobil on the Stadium side of Route 1 and a few hundred feet up was Esso owner by Rico Petrocelli. My guess is you went to the Gulf station that was the closest
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Post by patsfan2007 on Jun 11, 2020 21:06:22 GMT -5
1978 I became a die hard fan.
Liked watching Grogan, Hannah & Gray. Stanley Morgan such a smooth, fast WR.
But especially the defensive backfield: Haynes, Clayborn and Fox.
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Post by 7thWonderOfTheWorld on Jun 11, 2020 23:29:49 GMT -5
47th year, 1973.
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Post by somar on Jun 12, 2020 2:20:52 GMT -5
Because i started very late in my life, I remember how it started, so let's make it a story just in case anyone has toilet time to kill.
I 1st started watching the NFL in 2005. I knew about the sport before that but never really paid attention, mostly because back then it wasn't that easy to watch foreign stuff unless it was broadcasted by the local tv chanels, and the NFL wasn't. Only thing from the US i remember being broadcasted back then was the NBA, Michael Jordan years and thereabouts, but I never liked Basketball and still don't.
1st season i remember following more seriously and when i started educating myself about the game was 2006. Seahawks had lost the SB the previous season vs Pittsburgh, that, more or less made me root for Seattle and "hate" on Pittsburgh during the whole 2006. I didn't consider myself a fan of anyone at that point but I would start developing a some affection towards NE.
For some reason, whenever i watch US sports I end up rooting for Boston based teams, I follow the Bruins in the NHL, and even though i don't like the NBA and the MBL, if I'm watching because there's nothing better to do, I always want the Celtics and Red Sox to win. Don't ask me why this fixation with Boston, I have no idea, maybe it's the Irish connection, love those drunk sobs to death, best people on earth.
Anyway, to help with all that, in 2007 everyone already know what happened, so watching the Brady Moss Welker trio got me hooked on the team. Sadly the SB was what it was, but in a way I think that kinda helped me root for the team even more next season.
From then onward I have been a NE Patriot fan exclusively though the Seahawks are still my #2 team and the ones I root for in the NFC.
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