The football version of the Yankees?

You can't compare the Yankee's to any NFL team that has to abide by a salary cap. Baseball is dying because of owners like Georgie and his greedy cohorts. Free agents want to play for the Patriots because they have a legitimate shot at a ring, some will take less money (like Moss).

Dallas is the most hated NFL franchise and Jerry Jones has more in common with Georgie than with the great founding owners of the NFL.

No. on an identical time as there is hatred, there is no longer plenty history and that's not that extreme in comparison to different rivalries. As a Patriots fan, I evaluate the Giants extra of a brand manhattan rival than the Jets. And till now final twelve months, I evaluate our substantial competitors to be the Colts...for the final decade that ought to have been the Sox-Yanks element, as they blended for the accepted public of the convention titles and had the two acceptable documents of the final 10 years. to no longer point out the entire one-on-one Brady vs. Manning element, some thing which has rather been lacking from the Sox-Yankees on account that Nomar and Pedro left city. Now that Manning has left the Colts, I evaluate the Steelers our greatest competitors. Jets could be like 5th or 6th down the checklist. And besides, the acceptable analogue to Sox-Yanlees interior the NFL is Packers-Bears.

you know whats hillarious

i went to an iowa mens basketball game last night

and an almost sold out crowd was cheering and clapping and yelling when the announcer updated us with the score when the patriots were losing 28-14 or whatever it was

almost 15,000 people just in one little spot that hates the patriots...they are the yankees of football, it doesnt help that they just buy the best players, cheat, gloat and showoff and act like they're the best players to ever touch a football

The Yankees try to "monopolize" all the best players with their bug budget and still lose. Belichick and New England, they will pick up players, but if the guy wants too much money, i.e. Ty Law, Lawyer Milloy, Deion Branch. Then they don't pay. And they still win.

Yankees pickup a bunch of players and don't even get through the first palyoff series. So no, they aren't like them.

Mom: Saw alot of empty seat at Pats games fefore they started winning. Yeah...great fans is right.

But the question is 100% correct. Pats and their fans have become the NFL's version of the Yankees.

Yankees - great past history

Patriots - pathetic past history

Yankees - haven't won since 2000

Patriots - have won since 2000

Yankees- always a threat because they outspend everyone.

Patriots - Salary Cap.

Yes the similarity is uncanny.:rolleyes:

one big difference is that the yankees are the most successful franchise in baseball. the pats were NOTHING until 2001. if any nfl team can be called the "yankees" of football it would be the dallas cowboys (most successful franchise since 1960 when they joined the league, most superbowl trips, tied for most wins, most playoff trips, most playoff wins, 3rd best winning percentage, most popular (and hated) team in nfl polling year after year, as rich a franchise as any, fielded excellent teams in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, plus their record this year for the 2000's." the pats are the equivalent of the red sox, losers for decades, winners for the past couple of years.

the only distinction between the Pats and Yankees is that the Pats pay their players the same that other teams do, unlike the Yankee's insane payroll. so in that regard, I don't think that they are similar.

Go Browns

I have plenty of friends nationwide that love The Patriots.... who cares who hates us, Green Bay has plenty that hate them as well...lol... The Pats/Red Sox have the best FANS... no matter how they fair... Get used to it....

I think the comparison is only in your own mind, LOL!