Originally Posted by dak

Grew up in Conn. started liking football at age 10. (1985) the year the pats whent to the super bowl. My pop and all his friends hated the pats. They told me I should give up on them. I hung in there through the early 90's into today. Even though big Ben and his Steelers stole my hopes that the pats might go undefeated this season, I still wake up and look at my tattered 1988 pats ballcap and say "how sweet it is!"