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The Patriots have won six Super Bowls since 2001, have been to the AFC Championship game each of the last eight seasons and currently sit at 10-3 on the year.
To say New England fans have been spoiled with winning would be an understatement, but that didn’t keep them from booing the team off the field in Foxborough as the Pats trotted off the field trailing the Chiefs 20-7 at the break.
The Patriots certainly weren’t playing a great game at that point, but for the boo birds to reign down on Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and company was a questionable move by the fans. But as I said, these folks don’t see a whole lot of losing.
Brady had his weekly interview spot on WEEI on Monday morning and offered his thoughts about the entire situation.
“We’ve had millions of people show up for our winning celebrations after we won Super Bowls. I think when you play sports, nothing is guaranteed. You have wins, you have losses, you have highs, you have lows. You can have great thrilling wins and really tough losses and I think how you handle those things, I would say gracefully, is most important to me. Everyone has a right to do what they want to do and feel how they want to feel. We as a team obviously feel disappointed when we lose games so you just take it for what it is, try to move forward, do the best you can do and I think that’s what everyone’s trying to do out there.”
Now, of course, Brady isn’t going to say anything negative about the fans so he spun his answer to the classic ‘try to move forward’ statement.
While most would agree that the fans don’t have any right to boo this Patriots team as long as Brady and Belichick are around, they did have every right to boo the officials after they blew a couple of calls during the team’s 23-16 loss to Kansas City.