Five Reasons Why I Love the New England Patriots

Five Reasons Why I Love the New England Patriots

• 1The Patriots are my home team.
  
  I've never lived anywhere else than New England. What kind of person would I be to turn my back on my own hometown boys? Besides, they are the greatest football team EVER.
• 2Tom Brady and Patriots Offense. And the No Huddle.
  
  Tom Brady is undoubtedly the best Quarterback ever. Some would argue. Most are smart enough not to bother.
  
  Listen to the lineup! Welker, GRONKOWSKI, Edelman, Branch, Hernandez, Green-Ellis, Woodhead and the rest of the offense. (And the defense. Every single one of them.)
• 3Bill Belichik and the Coaching Staff.
  
  Here we go again. Another BEST EVER. Coach Belichick is... well... undoubtedly the best football coach in the history of football. Even Vince Lombardi wakes up on the weekends to listen to Belichick holler in the locker room
• 4Robert Kraft and the Management Team and Everything About Gillette Stadium.
  
  Gillette Stadium is a great stadium. Probably no longer "the best" since there have been a couple of new ones built bigger and better since Gillette opened in time for the 2002 season. It's still a very fun place to watch a game. Love the SRO tickets when you can get them on the fly and the tailgating scene at Gillette is outstanding and outrageously fun.
  
  Robert Kraft, the owner of the Pats and the stadium and a whole lot of property around it... is the man. Love that guy. I have a huge amount of respect for him as a business person and a regular guy. I like what he's done for the team and the fans. I like how he acts in front of the camera. I'd like him to be my neighbor.
• 5One Game-at-a-Time Philosophy.
  
  The Patriots play every game like it's a one-time-shot. When it's over, win or lose, they play the next game the same way. One game at a time. No playoffs in sight. No Super Bowl dreams. Just. One. Game. At. A. Time. We crazy fans screech and scream and holler and glue ourselves to every play and every point of every game and wait anxiously for the next one and then for the playoffs and cross fingers and pray to the football gods. The Patriots? One. Game. At. A. Time.
  
  It works.