Re: Super Bowl LI: Puppies, Commercials, And Some Football Too
Um, there are a least a few of us who were fans during the dark days (I still ***g hate Ben Dreith for that call against Sugar Bear).
I believe that Raiders team went on to win the Super Bowl.
Not complaining really, who knows how that would have changed the trajectory of the franchise.
There is a definite lack of understanding of Pats history from some of the haters, I mean posters on here. That team in '76 was championship caliber, among a run of good Chuck Fairbanks teams with Russ Francis, John Hannah, Mike Haynes, Cunningham, Grogan, etc. in the mid 70s.
They made the playoffs 3 times in the 80s, including a Super Bowl appearance. That was the whole time of Squish the Fish, which captured a lot of attention and fans, my humble apologies to those who think they know "all" about the Pats because they went to school here in the 90s or 00s.
The Pats have really only had one bad extended run in their entire history, that was the first half of the 90s, 5 years of ineptitude that the hates, again sorry posters, latch on to. Even with that, they've had exactly 1 one-win season in their history, which I think would surprise a lot of people who think they know the Pats history.
And that bad 5 year run ended with the hiring of Bill Parcells in 95? 96?, and we all know how it's gone from there, for the last 20 years.