Denver Broncos: Views from a Bronco Fan Living in Boston
Final Thoughts
Not all Pats fans are Boston hooligans, but of those who seem like they were plucked straight out of a Ben Affleck movie? Most are Pats fans. Nearly all my friends are normal sports fans who understand that they have experienced something unprecedented and truly special over the last decade and a half between Belichick and Brady.
The rest largely believe that they deserve this success because Boston suffered through so much losing in especially painful ways for so long. These are the people who populate the WEEI’s and Barstool’s of the world, conjuring up trades like Danny Amendola straight up for Joe Thomas and wondering if they’re giving up too much. They don’t really watch football other than Pats games.
The overall hatred towards Pats nation is justified, but this ignorance does not inflict all or even most New England fans. They’re just really passionate people who have a habit of speaking before fully thinking through what they’re saying. It’s a really ugly look on the worst of them. But every fanbase has a “worst of them.” Remember the alarmingly large smattering of Bronco fans booing the highest scoring offense of all time for one bad half?
They love this franchise as much as we love the Broncos, even if a lot of them don’t appreciate the Pats in the same way that we do our team (but that’s OK, the Broncos are our Red Sox. You want to talk about how we appreciate the Avs or Nuggets versus the Celtics or Bruins? Ha! Our Rockies love is consistent though – as attendance figures prove. Denver is a two-sport town).
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Frankly, it’s fun to have a worthy opponent to hate. Iron sharpens iron. Culturally there is some overlap as well. Colorado has effectively turned into East California, and we tend to be more aggressive than our western counterparts.
No matter the records, these two teams largely measure themselves by their seemingly annual contests against one another. Due to each squad’s dominance, the rest of the AFC hierarchy is informed by these games as well. This may not be the Broncos season, but this team is still capable of being the AFC’s best on any given Sunday.
They’ll need to be this Sunday. Gone are the days where Denver sneaks up on New England (if those ever existed). This rivalry is front and center in the NFL – and given the infrastructure and talent on all sides of the ball, it should continue to dominate the league for the foreseeable future.