Another lopsided game , although it didn’t start out that way. NE has played a great game. Congratulations to the NE fans. In the NE -Atlanta game, I’ll root for Atlanta too!
Rise up, Falcons!!!
I had season tickets at Harvard Stadium when they were the Boston Patriots. They have come a long way since their wild and crazy days. Wish Gronk wasn’t injured. Pats.
Not too much suspense in either game.
The question is, can the Patriots slow down the Atlanta offense? They are looking scary good.
I hate the Falcons. But I hate the Patriots more. So thats where I am with this Super Bowl. Sigh.
So much Patriots hate.
Bring it on! >:)
I don’t get why anyone “hates” any particular team.
Because “loving” a particular team is so logical? I mean, none of it makes much sense really.
And I don’t “hate” any team in the sense that it particularly occupies my thoughts or emotions outisde of when I’m watching a game, or in a discussion about who will be in playoffs/Super Bowl or whatever. But within this context, why is “hating” a team any different than “loving” a team?
The hate makes it more fun, for many reasons.
I get supporting a team, cheering them on, strongly wanting a certain team to win. Even when one is the home team, does one “love” it? or “hate” the other? Just seems silly.
If I’m rooting for the home team or whatever team I like/love, that’s not about hating or disliking the other team. At least not primarily.
But there are teams I dislike. That does make it more fun overall. Mostly by providing a reason to be interested in more games.
Some of the dislike is logical based on the teams you like. Conference and division rivalries and such.
That is all reasonable and goes without say. It’s the extremes (love/hate) that are harder to get ones head around.
@jym626L
“It’s the extremes (love/hate) that are harder to get ones head around.” That describes being a Jets fan perfectly, it is the ultimate love/hate relationship, you love the concept of the team and hope they will do well, but also hate that for most of their existence they have been an oasis of mediocrity, disaster and falling all over themselves, and fans have adapted to that reality. When the Jets are bad (as I expect them now to be for many more years, Woody there or not it is clear the current people running the show are not very good, from one end to the other) die hard fans have learned to revel in their failure, my wife could never understand why my son and I thoroughly can enjoy how bad the jets can be, cheering when Sanchez for example threw the ball 20 yards over a receivers head and allowed Antron Roll to actually get an interception…and sometimes Jets actually are rooting for the team to do badly, in the hope that maybe, just maybe, they will fire the incompetents at the coaching and GM position and maybe by sheer luck, bring in a good coach who actually can produce regularly good teams.
Put it this way, compare New England to the Jets, or Pittsburgh, and you see the difference between a quality organization and a bunch of bozos…the fact that the jets look to be soon in the same league as the Rams, Jaguars and other perpetually bad teams means a lot of people are going to be praying that Maccagnan and Bowles screw the pooch so bad that we can have hopes of a (less dismal) future.
No doubt Atlanta is going to give us a run but my Pats are on fiyah!!! Cannot wait for the Superbowl 
Loving/hating any sports team is just not something I could care about that strongly one way or the other @musicprnt. And that comes from someone who used to walk their dog with Fran Tarkenton (a LONG time ago). Did it make me “love” the Giants back then? Nope. But did I cheer for him back then? Sure.
@jym626:
That is because those are normal teams, the Jets are mutants from a twisted dimension, I swear, and they generate love/hate in the same team from its own fans lol. Usually when people talk about hating teams it usually is for behavior or arrogance or smugness, while the Cowboys have a lot of fans there also were a lot of people who disliked them for that smugness (it kind of became ridiculous in the Aikmen years, when they were proclaiming themselves “America’s Team” while the team resembled the University of Oklahoma and Nebraska when they both seemed to be a convict team out of “The Longest Yard”, they used to joke more players in Dallas were in jail or suspended then all pro). People hate new England because they are successful and Brady can be an arrogant jerk and Bellichick for his bending the rules, but they also hate them because they are a great organization that continually wins while the stumble bums grasp in the dark…Pittsburgh and Ravens fans hate each other because they are in the same division and both are tough, physical football teams…
I think hate is a bit extreme, though, few fans want to blow up an entire team (other than Jets fans with their own team). It really is an offshoot of Mel brooks’ 2000 year old man “To hell with everyone else except cave 76”.
To me, football is football. Rabid fans are hard to understand.
Even when people said the Yankees were the best baseball team money could buy, there is no need to “hate”. Its just silly.
“Rabid fans are hard to understand.” That’s because you’re not a rabid fan!
“Even when one is the home team, does one “love” it? or “hate” the other? Just seems silly.”
“Loving/hating any sports team is just not something I could care about that strongly one way or the other”
You are nothing more than a casual fan, then. Nothing wrong with that, but don’t disparage those of us who get more emotionally involved.
Not disparaging anyone… Just saying that extremes like “hating” a team is a bit much. JMO.