Hello from a KC Chiefs fan!!

hence the name dolphinsinbuffalo…which might just imply that I’m a dolphins fan. Only half of what I said was negative and all of what you said was ignorant. It is very stupid to just claim that the Pats are going to win the Super Bowl, or any team for that matter. As a Cheifs fan you should stick to supporting your team and not trying to predict what a team will do or a team that you like probably just as a bandwagon type of thing anyway.

POLLARD broke through in practice and hit him in the leg .. almost identical to what happened to Brady….I think we would have stuffed him in a punching bag and let the team take turns if that would have happened…but atleast Brady is back and healthy.
You can tell he didn’t miss a beat either…he looks good!!

 dolphinsinbuffalo is a Dolphan that LIVE in Bufalo. Lets c, im a Dolphna that live in Puerto Rico, we dont have a team here but i cheer 4 the Dolphins, get it?

…on how the players or coach leave the team. If a player leaves in a nasty contract or trade dispute and sours his relationship with the fan base, then the loyalty and desire to see that player succeed with another team diminishes dramatically (similar to the Jay Cutler situation in Denver).

But if players leave because of family issues, a desire to be closer to their parents, want a chance to play for their hometown team before they retire, etc., fans generally don’t begrudge them for that. There are “right” reasons for leaving a team, and they’re pretty obvious when you hear them.

Sometimes, it’s just time for both the team and a player to move on. Drew Bledsoe engenders a lot of warm memories for New England fans even though he wasn’t THE guy for us. We continued to root for him in Buffalo (except when he played against us, of course) and, to a lesser extent, Dallas. Players who don’t want to leave but are forced to, either by trade or just because the situation isn’t tenable for them anymore, we’ll still root for.

i like the vikings because of jared allen and ap, i like the bears because matt forte is the shit, and i like many other teams simply by their character and identity. that’s why i like the pats too(and living in MA too.). my LEAST favorite team i have to say is the cowboys, because of their overall character and thiking their the best team in the world. granted tony homo(uh, i mean romo) may be a great guy, but i could care less about him. my second favorite teamis the raiders, because of my step dad who got me into them. i always cheered for them(except against the pats) to have success and when they don’t, i still stick by them. i’ve been a raiders fan for a few years now.
you don’t have to have one favorite team. if you like to cheer for a team to have success, than your a fan. but if yo ujust like one team, and no one else, than that’s your choice.

but it does matter how they left. Scott Pioli, Mike Vrabel, Matt Cassel left to go to the Chiefs. Vrabel came from the Steelers but I still have fond memories of his time in New England and wish him well. Scott Pioli wanted to run his own show on another team, but left on excellent terms with the entire Patriots organization and the apprecation of the fans. I’ll watch Kansas City games with more interest this year because of them. And how can we not root for a class guy like Matt Cassel???

The same goes for Josh McDaniels in Denver and the former Patriots players that found a home there. McDaniels is a good guy, performed admirably here, and except in head-to-head matches I’d enjoy seeing him succeed with the Broncos.

Mangini I’ll never root for, simply because he was a back-stabbing thieving weasel. When good character guys go out on good terms, I don’t see how I could just start hating on them because they wear a different uniform.

What about affiliations based on loyalty to a coach or manager? They don’t turn over as regularly (unless you’re Parcells). Belichick and the Pats organisation seemed content enough with Pioli and McDaniels going to the Chiefs and Broncos respectively, to the point that a number of trades was worked out between them to get ex-Pats players on their rosters. There are a number of connections between the teams at all levels – management, coaching, rosters. If Belichick has loyalty enough to McDaniels and Pioli in order to wangle such trades and support, why shouldn’t Pats fans have similar loyalty and respect for them?

I’m not saying it’s impossible to like Steelers players – I’m a fan of Troy Polamalu and Hines Ward – but that’s out of respect for their skills, abilities, attributes as players, etc. That’s not out of loyalty due to their service as Pats players/coaches/managers. And if Polamalu, Ward, Wille Parker went out and played for someone else, I’d probably like their new team. It’s more the players than the team, in other words, whereas fondness for McDaniels or Scott Pioli stems out of something different.