On Sunday, the New England Patriots got to their seventh Super Bowl under the QB-Coach duo of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. It's easy to say that we're spoiled. How spoiled are we? Enough to where we are mad that we have to play a team from Atlanta instead of a team from a bigger market like New York or Dallas.
Now, I think most Bostonians wouldn't say that Dan Shaughnessy is a great human, let alone a fabulous representative of Boston, but as I read his most recent article I saw his point. As someone who is more of a casual football fan, it's easier to get hyped/nervous/write articles about how I'd be an absolute mess if we were to play a team like, I don't know the New York Giants.
As a result, we're pretty damn insufferable, especially to those teams or cities that haven't ever have any sort of success, like say Atlanta, and it kind of makes it awkward for Boston, the city that always seems to have a chip on it's shoulder even if it in no way deserves it. I honestly cannot name a single great Atlanta sports moment, meanwhile, we have this:
The funny part is as great as that decade was, the next one has been almost as good, with 3 of the 4 major sports teams (the Celtics being an exception) winning another championship, and dubbing us the City of Champions.
We're used to success, it's engrained in us. It honestly makes it less fun, as I can never say at any point in my life that I've thought the Pats were going to lose, and I fully expect us to go to Houston and mop the floor with the Atlanta Falcons and their former BC Eagle quarterback with the most generic white person name ever. And even if we win, we probably won't shut up then, so I can't imagine how we'll be if we lose.
What's the point of this article? Good question. It's to sort-of-kind-of-not-really give you an apology/heads-up for how the city of Boston and it's fans will act leading up to the Super Bowl and why Dan Shaughnessy is actually right on this one. And either way, win or lose, as much as we might try to say otherwise, we're not sorry.
