Football Fans Lose Faith In Humanity As Patriots Head To Another Super Bowl

[Kristofer Bry]

Actual headline on HuffPo

Football fans were utterly distressed Sunday night as the New England Patriots secured a spot in yet another Super Bowl.

The Patriots scored in the last quarter of the American Football Conference against the Jacksonville Jaguars in a 20-24 win. Jacksonville was leading for the majority of the game, up by three points in the fourth quarter, when Patriots receiver Danny Amendola scored with less than three minutes left in the game.

This marks the eighth Super Bowl appearance for the team since 2000, and while Patriots fans are rejoicing, quite a few football fans are tired of the team’s non-stop arrival to the biggest game in the National Football League.

Twitter was overrun with disapproval and despair.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patriots-head-superbowl-twitter-sad_us_5a651e01e4b0dc592a09fafb?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

And there's more where that came from!

[stopbush]

1. Most fans hate the Pats because

1. They're serial cheaters

2. They get help from the refs

3. Their big play is to throw the ball 30 yards downfield and manufacture a PI call

Not reasons fans hate the Pats

1. Dislike Brady

2. Dislike them winning

3. Wish Brady was on their team instead

[bluedigger]

25. Most fans hate the Pats because they've been getting their asses handed to them.

Over and over and over again. I don't blame them.

[stopbush]

31. Nah. Reread my post. It gives the real reasons.

I could have mentioned how boring the Pats are, but it’s so obvious that I didn’t feel it necessary.

[bluedigger]

32. Those aren't reasons, they're rationalizations.

I could point out that the Pats come from behind more than anybody in the NFL, and to call them a boring team speaks to the lack of substance and credibility in your argument overall, but why bother?

[democratisphere]

2. The Patriots represented by Robert Kraft and Tom Brady have made

a pact with Satan aka donald j. drumpf. Enough said.

[former9thward]

30. They were winning long before Trump but hate away....

[SunSeeker]

3. LOL Well, I'll be rooting for the Eagles because I hate Trump.

[Cha]

5. I'm rooting for the Eagles 'cause

my son was born in Philly and oh, of course, I hate trump.

I was talking to him tonight and since his San Diego team is no more.. he's an Eagles fan now. He said his sister bought him some Eagles Gear!

Go Eagles!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Mahalo Cha!

[Cha]

12. I thought of you when I

wrote that post, BRDS..

Go Eagles!

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Philly is fired up, ready to go!

They were out in the streets overnight!

[Cha]

15. Cool! I'll tell, Tim!

Mahalo, BRDS!

[SweetieD]

4. It makes for a boring super bowl. And they should have been suspended or ousted for

Cheating a long time ago. They are probably still cheating but are just better at it now.

[oberliner]

11. Jax would've been much duller

Any matchup with the Pats will generate more interest.

The average person could probably not name a single player on the Jaguars.

[Orrex]

16. If by "average person" you mean "not a hardcore football fan," then...

the average person probably can't name two players on the Patriots.

Tom Brady? Sure. But ask that average person to give Gronk's full name.

[oberliner]

17. Exactly

Brady is pretty much a celebrity that even non-football fans know. (Gronk to a lesser extent)

Jacksonville has no such player.

[Orrex]

18. Well...

Having single-player name recognition isn't much better than having zero-player recognition.

Consider that 90% of the people (an irrefutably scienceful figure, honest!) know Brady's name only because they hate him, so I guess it's a matter of "any press is good press."

[underpants]

6. GO PATS!!!

[beaglelover]

23. Fuck yeah!!!! GOOOOO PATS!!!!!!

[mnhtnbb]

7. Super Bowl is a giant yawn this year

for this Panthers fan.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. E-A-G-L-E-S____EAGLES!!!!!!

[oberliner]

10. Great for ratings

No one wanted to see Jacksonville.

[Kristofer Bry]

21. Really?

How many people are gonna watch a game where the outcome is already known?

[oberliner]

22. The Patriots are only favored by 5 points

In 2008 they were favored to beat the Giants by 12 and ended up losing in one of the most exciting Super Bowls of all time.

[vercetti2021]

14. EAGLES

FLY EAGLES FLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Submariner]

19. Jaguars Trash Talk Fail....LOL

[link:

&feature=youtu.be|

[alarimer]

20. More like "The fix is in."

I hate the Patriots almost as much as I hate the Yankees, and for the same reasons. At least in baseball, other teams stand a small chance and the Yankees have not won in a while. But they can still buy all the best players (look at the shady, shady deal for Giancarlo Stanton from the Marlins- Derek Jeter was instrumental).

But the NFL is another story. I am a fan of a team that just got trounced and it fucking hurts. They have been sort of good for a while, or at least not terrible, but never quite good enough. They almost always choke at the most important moments. And this is with different players over many years. The only good part of their losing is that they are likely to be able to retain their best players, which may bode well for the future.

But still, someone needs to do something about the system that enables one team to be so dominant, year after year.

[flotsam]

28. What the Fuck do you suggest?

Lobotomize Belichick and disembowel Brady???

[milestogo]

24. Well, nobody has to watch the SuperBowl.

I certainly won't be watching.

[trotsky]

26. THIS makes me lose faith in humanity.

"Here are the Eagles fans walking around South Philly taking shots at a 99 yr old grandma"

Link to tweet

/video/1

[appleannie1943]

27. I totally quit watching football this year for the first time in over 50 years.

It had nothing to do with players taking a knee. I support that. It had to do with the referees handing the Pats a win game after game after game. If you watch a rerun of any game they played this year you will see at least one but usually more bad calls by the refs in key plays to help insure the other team lost. I got so disgusted, I just quit watching all games since the Super Bowl was a forgone win for the Pats and every other team were risking injuries for nothing.

[louis c]

29. The difference between Patriots fans and the rest of the league

Every New England Patriots fan, every year for the past 18, looks forward to the Super Bowl.

The fans of the rest of the league can look forward to the draft.

[First Speaker]

33. Funny thing about Tom Brady...

...his portrait is getting older...