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Fans—Booing the Patriots Feels Ridiculous, Even When the Team Loses

Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports

It’s typically wise to avoid discussions of fan etiquette. These conversations arise from an irrational place and can quickly descend into something truly unrecognizable from typical human behavior.

However, it feels necessary to mention this, before ducking and covering for the inevitable backlash: Booing the Patriots at home, as Patriots fans, feels particularly ridiculous. I may even go so far as to say that there should be a two-year, self-imposed ban on booing the Patriots from the time of their last Super Bowl win. And that is extraordinarily generous, since enough people out there seem eager to get to it.