You Kinda forgot to mention the part where our fans continued to sell out home games (and travel to away games) during our awful 70′s/80′s period, and the part during the awful 05-06 seasons when we were getting blown out/shut out at home or on the road, our fans didn’t leave the game at any point until the final whistle(unlike cheif’s fans), we probably had some that were “ejected”, but I doubt they just up and bailed.

I am, actually. I kinda thought once “we” got over the collective hump, the other NFL fans would crowd around us like (sorry for this) the end of the Karate Kid, muss our hair and say, “you’re all right, La Russo!” And then we’d get the keys to use the executive washroom or something. If some folks want to waste their time and money “getting on the bandwagon,” then fine. They’ll stick out eventually. Saints fans will party with anybody for a while, until they get annoying.

But its irritating being called a bandwagon fan when you’ve had to deal with sorry Aaron Brooks, winning games on Morten Andersen’s foot, Bobby Hebert, Mora, Ditka etc. You deserve success. I live in NC prior to the 09 superbowl, my Saints fandom was just seen as odd, now its viewed as convenient. Everyone here likes the Panthers or the Redskins. When I picked a football team, there were no Carolina Panthers, my dad was from Pensacola who moved to NC in the 70s and he didn’t care for the Redskins. Since I spent about every summer in the panhandle, I was familiar with the Saints because they’re the closest NFL team so their merch was easy to spot. So I was like fuck it, I’ll root for them. This was when Steve Walsh was the QB. Been a fan ever since.

Seriously. Fuck That entire area.

/except CJ

I’m originally from Massachusetts but have never rooted for the Patriots.

I know a guy from Kennewick, Washington area. He’s in his early 30s. His favorite teams are: Bulls, Braves, Cowboys, and UNC Tarheels. It just so happens that all those teams were really good when he was a kid. I call him out on it all the time and it really pisses him off.

I am, actually. I kinda thought once “we” got over the collective hump, the other NFL fans would crowd around us like (sorry for this) the end of the Karate Kid, muss our hair and say, “you’re all right, La Russo!” And then we’d get the keys to use the executive washroom or something. If some folks want to waste their time and money “getting on the bandwagon,” then fine. They’ll stick out eventually. Saints fans will party with anybody for a while, until they get annoying.

Can’t wait to see how he does under Harbaugh.

Me too, but probably for different reasons

New England was never above 3% before the Belichick era. They were still below 3% in September 2003, after winning a surprise Super Bowl but then missing the the playoffs the next year. The peak season was actually the poll in September 2008, following the 16-0 year, and not during the Super Bowl winning teams. That means, of course, that there were more self-identified Pats fans during the one season that Matt Cassel was quarterback than any with Tom Brady starting;

Most bandwagon NFL team in the history of ever.

You’ve tasted Alex Smith kool-aid, you’re legit.

Still am. Can’t wait to see how he does under Harbaugh.

Am I still considered bandwagon for being a 49er fan born in the 80′s? They’ve sucked for about 10 years now. I think the bandwagon statute of limitations has expired.

You’ve tasted Alex Smith kool-aid, you’re legit.

It certainly has. If you are a fan of the team after they garner the first overall pick and then squander about 6 years thereafter, you’re good.

Refs using “not enough video evidence” crutch on replay is a shitty problem in officiating right now, but whatever.

Well, really, it’s not so much a crutch as the rule.

No but it was part of it, along with some other horrid calls and NE’s turnovers.

This is my favorite fan game. “You didn’t win! We lost!!1!” Originated by Cowboys fans in the old days, polished to a high sheen by modern Patriots fans.

Jags fans are a dirty bunch.

if they’re dirty what does that make the Titans? Filthy?

/rolls to avoid being stomped Haynesworth-style.

It also a big deal if a regiment lost its colors. A regiment held in low esteem by others due to incompetence would be given mundane tasks or, worse, be more likely to be selected as cannon fodder by the commander for an attack.

And fuck that Rickels or Sickels guy who broke formation. He nearly had me hating black people.

No but it was part of it, along with some other horrid calls and NE’s turnovers.

If not for a garbage Deion Branch 70-some yard very late in the game, this one isn’t even close. Patriots just played bad all game. Denver played the field position game and won doing so.

Can someone explain the “colors” thing? After 8 guys were gunned down, I am pretty sure I would have said “fuck it” kept my rifle in my hand.

Officers, especially ones of social standing (i.e. from prominent families) were often younger back then. Some regiments still elected their officers for fixed periods of time. Others were appointed by army and corps commanders. It depended usually on rather the unit was Regular Army or a state raised militia (as many of them were). If you ever watched “Glory” it’s not a coincidence that they chose Matthew Broderick to play a Union Army colonel three years after he played a high school senior in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. The actual Col. Robert Gould Shaw was only 26 when he was killed in 1863 at Fort Wagner.

The colors: at that time when units attacked in formations, in the smoke and confusion of the battlefield, the colors (or regimental flags if you prefer) were often the only way for commanders to know where their units were going and for the soldiers to know where to go to. They were a rallying point and as such were highly important to the unit. So it was not at all uncommon for the color bearer to get killed fairly quickly but it was equally as common for other soldiers to immediately go and take them up for this purpose.

Lt. Kernel

I assume that was done with a bromesian purpose.

One might say, even, that the right call was made.

If one were full of shit, yes. Refs using “not enough video evidence” crutch on replay is a shitty problem in officiating right now, but whatever.

In any case, that’s not why your team lost

No but it was part of it, along with some other horrid calls and NE’s turnovers.