NBC Sports Boston Insiders Chris Forsberg, Phil Perry, Tom Curran and John Tomase join together for a three-part series about the State of the Boston Fan. In part one they discuss how the fandom has changed since each of them started covering their specific teams.
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Another Curran bull crap podcast. This is all he can do people. He knows very little about sports in general.
I am 24 and have followed the patriots heavily for almost 10 years. Belichick has the highest pedigree and we will sorely miss him when he’s gone. That said last year was his worst offensive staff since I’ve been alive. He obviously has made changes and should improve. Most pats fans are spoiled rotten and we have Brady to thank for that, but there’s something nice about being the underdog fighting for survival in the NFL. Even at the peak of his powers, belichick always told us “it’s hard to win in this league.”
4 of the biggest losers in sports who just make up stories on a daily basis
If offense is more important than defense in the NFL and Bill is the best defensive coach ever, he can't be the best coach of all time (another superbowl and Andy Reid might have that title). Also, a condition of him being a coach on this team is his being GM, so i'm rolling his ability to draft into his "greatest coach of all time" label, which seriously hurts this claim. Brady was the reason the Patriots were successful on the offensive side of the ball and Bill was a defensive mastermind, but Bill's inability to craft a well-balanced team through the draft/free agency and seeming disinterest in making the offense as good as it can be when it's the most important side of the ball in the NFL seriously damages his legacy.
Folks want to win. This is a new team and it didn't help that those two jackasses were coaching offense last year. They deserved to lose and I'm glad they did. Would've hated to justify
I can't stand the attitude of entitlement in Patriots Nation. Once a team wins consistently the fans seem to relax part of their anxiety, but then build up this ridiculous expectation that the team has to win a championship every year or the year is a failure. So now there is a new level of anxiety, and it becomes bigger, badder, and glued to either winning a SB or proving how worthless you are. It sounds a bit like a mental illness that demands perfection or be skewered by ignorant asses.
Fandom changed once people like Tomase invented stories to get clicks. The Boston media has tried to run the teams through hit pieces ever since. You're a bunch of grown jock sniffers. Next to zero professionalism. Perry and Curran are the two most palatable the region has. Is it a generational thing? It seems it. The type of self-important, self-serving individuals that pollute Western society today. I was a hard-core sports talk radio listener for most of my life (54) . I keep tuning in and then turning it off a few minutes later it's such hot garbage. It's sad I'm such a football and hockey junkie. I keep punishing myself by coming back. Bill is a dick because he can't stand most of you either. Parcells called you commies years ago. He was spot the F on.
Great segment, very interesting thoughts. I agree with all of you guys
This was a great segment. As a sports fan in her 40s. it brought back many memories. I was in CA in 2004 when the sox won and I flew back for the parade. Those first wins hit different because we came so close but never won (Sox and Pats). In college I did security as Foxboro stadium and I remember sneaking my friends in. lol. I went back to work at Gillette and experienced a whole different world. I experienced those championships up close and it blew my mind. I'm glad that I got to experience the heartbreak. It makes you appreciate it more. I feel like our teams now are so soft. I still root for them but I miss the blue collar players. Thanks for this segment.
Sports radio in Boston is what has ruined the experience
Blows my mind how baseball came to have the label of "boring" but football, arguably the lamest and most uninteresting sport to exist, has not. "Omg a guy passed a ball directly to the other guys's hands and he caught it yayyyy so exciting" wtf
4:22 Three out these four men are gay and there is nothing wrong with that.
I loved EVERYONES TAKE tonight. Lived in Massachusetts my whole life with no itch to ever leave. I love it here, and there’s SO much I haven’t gotten to explore yet. I love my BOSTON sports teams, and to hear all this passion and critique at the same time sums up what it’s like being a Boston fan! We win some, we lose some. We have our highs and we have our lows. But at the end of the day it’s a fantastic city to route for because they’re going to give it their all and you never know what you’re going to get! That being said…. LETS GO C’s!!! Let’s take home the 2024 championship!!!!! ☘️ 💓
I am 46 and have been a big fan of Boston sports since I was 9. Since 2000 we have been the most successful in all of sports. I am grateful for those years and looking forward to more championships in the near future. The teams have earned my patience especially the redsox and patriots. So although I am prob in the minority I am happy and optimistic with the current state of Boston sports. 💪😊
Born in Woburn, MA at the Choate hospital back in 1953, I grew up in the tiny town of Wilmington. My single mother, three sisters, brother and I were raised in my grandfather's two bedroom house. As the sole source of income and male guidance for the family, our "Grampy" was the funniest, kindest, gentlest, man I have ever known. He used up most of his pension and life savings to provide us with beds, food, clothes, and he even bought us an RCA TV! and it was that big, black and white, wooden console magic box that he and I sat and watche the first football game I ever saw. was when he and I sat down on Sunday and saw the New York Giants, with Y.A.Tittle at QB, get muckled by the Chicsgo Bears and "Iron" Mike Dtka in the playoffs back in 1963. (Little did I know that both of those teams would later take psrt in three of the most humiliating losses that my future, most beloved, team of all time would ever suffer. And Ditka coached Bears in the 46-10 massacre in Super Bowl X-X. We were the only poor kids on Lloyd Road, but we didn't know it. We were rich with love and well behaved so the many kids on our street treated us well. Being only eighteen years old when I was born my mother and I kind of grew up together, and though she was a loving and caring, she had to get
stricter than the way she was broight up to keep the five of us from trashing the house and ruining our clothes. (I learned to take better care of my new school corduroys that I got each September after my mother discovered that whipping my butt with the big wooden spoon was a lot more effective than using her hand.)
So, I learned some hard lessons from my mother, but I
aught me lessons about life that have become the some of the greatest gifts that I can have becoming a fan of the Sox, Boston Patriots, Bruins, and later, the Celts, I have run gauntlet dislikJohn Tomase