You want “substantive” answers? No professional sports team employee has ever given a substantive answer in a post-game press conference in the history of professional sports. This is the stupidest argument I’ve ever read.

It’s true, he did do that. I do think it’s notable though, that moving to Hartford from Foxborough really doesn’t qualify as moving to a new market. The Pats are already “New England”’s team. I don’t think the fan base would view it as a betrayal. The governor of CT sure did, though!

It’s not that I “take it so seriously”. It’s just the whole “blah blah blah fairweather fans” thing is a pet peeve of mine, because it’s powerfully lame. It’s basically something that can be attached to every sports franchise in existence.

Wow I see the echo chamber has been echoing a bunch since I left to go get some work done.

So, your definition of a “real fan” is one that walks around town wearing the team’s jersey year round? Got it.

Touche

I’m glad you enjoyed my colorful choice of words.

Yes, fair weather fans are definitely the ones following the team’s off-season moves in December.

There are “fair weather fans” of EVERY team. That’s the whole point of calling people that. It’s how the “real fans” try and make themselves feel more important because they were there before the team was good.

I’m not even a Cubs fan. I’m merely a crusader for truth and pointing out that you’re an idiot. It doesn’t seem “arbitrary” to point out that the supposed “fair weather fans” continue to fill the stadium even when the team finishes in 5th place 4 years in a row.

You can’t be serious. Dude the Cubs have basically been bad for 100 years. And yet they still sell out Wrigley on a Tuesday afternoon. And the data bears this out. In spite of playing in one of the smaller stadiums in the MLB, and in spite of playing more day games than any other team, the Cubs are consistently top 10…

You know, what you wrote here is pretty much exactly what Brady said:

Speaking of stereotypes: did you know that not all of the approximately 4.7 million residents of the Greater Boston Area are (a) Irish, or (b) in college?

Maybe the stereotypes are, yaknow, wrong?

I dunno man, I thought it was funny.

Either sleeping in or at church? I’m not sure you have a complete view of the cross section of American lifestyles. There are more early-rising infidels than you might think!

Tell that to the 2004 Yankees

Yes.

No, you’re not the only one. You’re simply equally as incorrect as all the other people that have this interpretation. If you want to think of past officiating as a form of “case law”, it’s pretty clear that defensive shifts are not penalties under this rule.

“It’s a minor thing, but these minor things add up.”