Due to my location (and my friends and family who are rabid Pats fans), it looks like we are going to this game. I am slightly leery about it since I will be with my kids. (And also since if the game ends like last years 45-3 game, I may swan-dive from the ridiculously steep, dizzying upper deck, but that's a whole other issue.) I can obviously take, and actually enjoy, good-natured ribbing. But if there is a fair chance that people will be nasty or get uncomfortable, I wouldn't want to expose my kids to that. So... I ask you Jet's fans that have gone to Gillette, based on your experience, should we be ok?
I don't know. I went there in 2000 and it was the worst opposing crowd I had seen to that point in my life but I went to the playoff game a few months ago and the crowd was great.
I agree. I had 6 Japanese guys behind me and a guy with a toddler in front. Jets fan to the left and right. Kinda had free reign to call Brady a fag all game. Like you say though, ya never know.
They're assholes. I havent had any personal issues, but they are a bunch of jackasses. Be alert. In 2003 a bunch of Pats fans beat up a female Dolphins fan and stole her jacket.
I remember a jets fan stealing another jets fans jersey at a game last season. Good thing everything woyj&
I went in 2009 when Sanchez threw 3 picks to Bodden and Welker ran all over us. I sat in the 4th row corner. The crowd there was fine and actually felt bad for my wife and I. The bathrooms before the kickoff were another story entirely. Constant bad language and threats of pissing on my head from lines of already-drunk Pats fans. Not a good atmosphere for kids. I'd recommend getting inside the stadium early, hitting the bathroom and concessions before the crowds, then sitting comfortably in your seats for the pregame warmups.
Holy crap. You guys are scaring me. This thread was supposed to go like this... "No... they are fine. You will have a blast!" or "Well there are some jerks out there but you should be fine." or "You are a girl... nobody will bother you, people are only assholes to douchebaggy guys that act like pricks."
They're assholes. I've been to many games in Foxboro and have seen some pretty shitty behavior. I doubt you would actually have any physical harm done to you such as that dolphin fan, but just be careful.
Yeah, I don't wanna be dramatic about it, but they are terrible. I am a Jets STH, and have brought Patriot fan coworkers to Jets games, and aside from a few curse words and a lot of good natured joking around never been an issue. In Gillette when I go it is a completely different story. Constantly yelling "faggot", one dude at the 45-3 game yelled "sanchez is a nigger" in my face, and after the game some punk kid jumped on my shoulders from behind. A separate time some guy just started pushing me from behind three or four times trying to get me to respond. They will literally come up to you within 1 or 2 feet of your face and just yell in your ear and shit trying to get you to start a fight, because lord knows you'd be the one that ends up getting in trouble. I just keep walking and don't even make eye contact with them. I would not use the bathroom at any peak time, or if I really had to, Id leave my jersey and hat with my buddies in the seats. I know that there are jerks at every stadium, but the amount of swearing and gall of the Patriots fans is worse then at Jets games.
I was at both games last year there; obviously the second was more enjoyable. I wear full Jets garb too FYI. I went to use the bathroom in an outhouse in the parking lot and when I came out there were three Pats fans on the pavement laying on their backs with their shoes off and bare feet in the air. I laughed and thought it was pretty funny as they took some photos of me laughing it off with the other fans' feet in the air. Truth is, it's bad where ever you go...it's football, not the NBA. As long as you're not a jerk to the home crowd you're fine.
I went to Pat's training camp today (We were down there for a concert anyway, and daughter is a huge Pats fan)... with my Jet's t-shirt on ;-) I am a little less worried about going to the game. There was plenty of ribbing and back-and-forth, but it was all good-natured and fun. Of course... at training camp tailgating/alcohol aren't factoring in and it's pretty family oriented...
