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    1. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      Everything about the Patriots felt sad. The owners were awful and there were constant rumors they'd move to St. Louis. But all that finally changed in 1993, with a sudden change in both luck and temperament.

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    2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      1. Kraft began buying the team (he had tried back in the 80s) and 2. Bill Parcells started coaching a young Drew Bledsoe. Suddenly, they were competitive as hell, playing spoiler against angry Dan Marino. They even got cool new uniforms.

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    3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      Best of all, I got to watch Ben Coates, one of my favorite players ever, who scared the bejesus out of everyone as he ran them over like a tank. I still have his jersey in my closet. One of the few I can't bare to get rid of.

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    4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      The teams were so much fun to watch, but could never put it all together. There was the disheartening loss to favre's packers in superbowl 31. Then there were the sad, uneven Pete Carroll years (he was far from the coach he is now).

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    5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      Enter Bill Belichick. New Englanders conveniently like to forget how they felt about him at first: a prickly square who basically ducked out of the Jets organization to take the pay day here. His first season they went 5-11.

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    6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      The media treated him mercilessly, but it turns out it would be his only losing season. Everything was about to change, but for a lot of reasons people forget.

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    7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      Cause people forget that Tom Brady was an accident. Drew Bledsoe was our tried and true superstar with his rocket arm. Brady was just some kid who was a safe back-up. But when Bledsoe got hurt, Brady came in and despite low numbers, he just kept winning.

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    8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      People also forget that in the AFC championship, Brady actually got hurt and Bledsoe had come back in to finish and win the game, leading to much talked about "quarterback controversy" going into the big game.

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    9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      Of course, there really wasn't one. You go with the guy who got you there, but that didn't stop the media from having a field day and Bono from lending his two cents and saying they should start Bledsoe (really).

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    10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      And everyone definitely forgets that everyone LOVED that patriots team. Yup! The plucky young upstarts against The Rams, who had won the year prior and people were getting sick of the "Greatest Show On Turf" attitude. No one remembers this shit.

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      Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

      And they especially don't remember how the patriotic angle of it all was played up in the months after 9/11 (which is literally why kraft said his famous line, "we are all patriots tonight.")

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        2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          But it was also my first "real championship." I was pretty young for the Celts 80's ones and so I just have little images in my brain. But now I was in college in Boston and holy shit I could take it all in surrounded by friends going nuts.

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        3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          It sure helps that the game was incredible. With a thrilling last second win, I just remember running into the streets in pure elation. I'm not sure how many of you have that sheer unadulterated joy before, but it's a high that's almost indescribable.

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        4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          It was also the turning point of everything. The patriots would win again two years later. And more importantly for our "cursed" city, the sox would have their famous 2004 wins against the Yankees and Cardinals to win it all.

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        5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          I actually moved out of Boston right after that at the end of 2004, heading east to LA. I knew I was definitely going to take my fandom with me, but there was still something cathartic about me being there to experience all of that before I said goodbye.

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        6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          But when I moved here it was an odd feeling. Boston is small and insular and now suddenly you're in this city where everyone is from everywhere and liking everything and nothing in equal measure.

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        7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          You're not going to be believe it, folks but after years of conditioning from Boston to be judgmental of other teams? I was *judgmental* about all this. Saying it's not real sports city, etc. etc. And I tried to wear my boston on my sleeve.

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        8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          I would drive for hours down to Anaheim for sox games and miss work. I would pay insane money to see the c's in town (man I miss when clippers tix were cheap). I would try so freaking hard those first few years to hold onto this thing that was built into me.

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        9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          At the same time, the gluttony of Boston sports hit a fever pitch. With the famous 2007 almost-undefeated season, they went from a team that people were bored of to the most hated on the planet

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        10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          They were exposed as blatant cheaters, the new evil empire, the ones who suck joy from all other teams. And fun fact: I went to that 2007 super bowl and barfed after! I didn't even drink!

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        11. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Then in the next few years the Celtics would form their out of nowhere super-team and then the Bruins would win the stanley cup. The red sox won again. Suddenly Boston was now "title town." And I felt my relationship to all of it change.

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        12. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          But it wasn't sudden or marked by singular events. It was a slow act of erosion.

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        13. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          First with the absurd Fenway cost increases. I remember talking to my dad about how much he hated the red sox now and their lurid prices and he said: "baseball isn't baseball unless a working class family of four an afford to go to a game."

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        14. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Moreover, I watched the city of Boston, myopic to begin with, become irradiated. Because it's not like the chip on the shoulder magically disappears, it goes to "we earned this, we're the best" and it's like all greed, it just keeps going.

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        15. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          You keep feeling disrespected and like more will keep proving... something? But you're just a dragon sitting on top of a pile of rubies. And that's when the defenses really come out.

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        16. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          I would talk to friends from home, see posts on social media, and finally living outside it all, I could see the incredible callousness. Most notably in how out of step they were with the national sentiment... I didn't want to be like that.

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        17. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          I'll admit this goes hand in hand with realizing how much it all tied into my relationship with Boston's toxic masculinity, something I still feel like I'm trying to work my way out from under it.

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        18. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          But really, I just got tired of it all. Tired of driving to anaheim. Tired of the damn intensity... And got fucking help me when Brady and Kraft went in with the MAGA shit. I was apoplectic. But far more importantly to the process, I began falling in love with LA.

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        19. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Not the LA that had been built into my head by stereotypes. The real one. The brilliant, vibrant city full of so many amazing cultures and foods and joys. That's the secret no one wants to tell you. This city is amazing.

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        20. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          The one that is also full of incredible Dodgers and Kings fans. The one that still passionately loves the Raiders even though they've been gone for years. More importantly, I came to realize that there's genuine joy in the fan diaspora.

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        21. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Suddenly things become a different kind of fun when you're best friends are Cavs fans, or A's fans, or genuinely love going to every Galaxy game. In turn, I went with friends to watch what they loved.

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        22. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          And it's exactly what allowed me to go from a Boston fan to a Sports fan. I stopped paying for NESN. I gravitated toward the NBA and started watching every random game.

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        23. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          I also started going to dodger stadium 1) because i love it there and 2) for the dodgers, at first under the reasoning of "they're in the national league, it's not cheating." But with pressure and time, they just became the team I watched.

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        24. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          And when I hit the world series this year and the dodgers played the red sox? I didn't even have to make a choice. It was the dodgers. This was my life now. And that's okay. Things change. Often for necessary reasons.

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        25. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Now... all that may seem like a lot of build-up to say "I had a strange feeling watching the pats win the superbowl last night," but it's necessary to really understanding the complexity of it all.

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        26. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Did I get any joy in watching them win at this point? Not really. Hell, even the Patriots seemed bored. That was probably the least happy superbowl team I've ever seen in my life. But that makes sense for the team that already proved everything.

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        27. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          Still, last night someone asked me with genuine disdain in their voice, "How the fuck can you like this team?" And all I could really do was sit there and grimace. The truth is I don't, really.

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        28. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          But it's hard to explain that "this team" means something else entirely to me. You define it by right now. But I still can't help but define it by Tony Eason, Ben Coates, and the time they beat the greatest show on turf.

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        29. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          It's also hard to explain that that doofus Tom Brady has historically provided more sports-related joy than you can imagine. Do you seriously understand how odd it's been to watch a competent football team for 20 years? ABSURD. But so are his beliefs.

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        30. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          And it's so hard to explain to them all the ways I've slowly let go of him and Boston sports in general over the last two decades. Just as it's hard to explain that it's still attached to lovely days gone by and deliriously happy moments.

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        31. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Feb 2019

          When people talk about our sports identities, other fandoms speak in the narrative of the right now. Because for every sports fan, the narrative always depends how far back you want to go.

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