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Originally Posted by nunusguy
Funny you should mention being from Mass, because while watching the Pats-Jets game last night I told my wife, a Texas native who's lived multiple times in Boston and tells me her impression was that basketball & hockey were the big sports up there, it's a shame that such a great NFL franchise was wasted on an area that's really not a football hotbed. And before coming down here years ago, I'm from around the KC, Mo area where nothing ever compared to the popularity of the Chiefs and you know how people feel about football here.
I mean there's little doubt the Texans have aroused the most interest, the most passion, been the most popular sports team since since the other pro football team, the Oilers, and yet they've just barely sniffed some success with last years first winning record.
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Yep. My family are all classic Boston bred sports nuts. My grandpa died in his early 40s and called my mother in to his deathbed instead of his wife. His actual last words (God's honest truth), was to make her swear that she wouldn't die until she saw the Red Sox win the world series. That is how big Baseball is there. Of course the Celtics are an institution as well. Bruins and Hockey are local favorites. The patriots were a distant 4th when I lived there in the 80s. And so was football in general.
That may be why I could fall in love with the Texans when the franchise started. Nobody cared enough about the Patriots to make it feel like betrayal.
But in recent years, the Patriots have obviously made strides in popularity just by winning. Plus the NFL has exploded eveyrwhere in recent years.