So, I have a friend who cheers for the Pats because in his own words, he "likes to support a winner" ... he was visiting not too long ago (he's actually the husband of a dear friend of my dear wife's, and they were visiting us all the way from Portland, which was a great boost for the morale of my precious wife, and it was darned nice of them) and talked about how great the NE dynasty, Brady, Belichick, etc all were, and basically just how fun it was to be alive while the Pats were doing so well. And, no, this is not Fearless.
It turns out he is from LA, and so during the SB, I texted them asking, okay, so is this the point where you actually break down and cheer for the home team? He's old enough to have a strong memory of Roman Gabriel etc from the earlier version of the LA Rams, and if I'm not mistaken grew up an LA fan. Then of course the Rams left LA, so I kind of get his need to find a new team, but you know the Rams are back now.
Anyway, it turns out, that, no, he was on the edge of his seat cheering for Brady to bring home their 6th trophy, with no thought about LA or the Rams.
Now, how should we classify my friend? The quintessential bandwagoner? I mean, he is loyal to the Pats since they started winning (but I don't know if he was a fan back when they were mediocre, i.e. pretty much all of their history in the 1900's) ... so my take is that he's picking the best team and cheering for them. It just seems too easy.
As a lifelong Cardinals (mlb), Sooners (cfb) and Cowboys (nfl) fan, I've never ever cheered for anyone else, including during the 70s and 90s for StL, the 90s for OU, and pretty much for the rest of time for the Boys. I don't care how good your team might be some of the time, there will be long periods in which they are at best mediocre. As Sundance would say Now that's a law.
So, for me, despite my friend otherwise being a pretty decent fellow, I can't respect this Pats thing he has.
But, am I being too hard on the guy?
