When asked on Wednesday about the challenges of playing against the Jets on the road, Patriots’ QB Tom Brady took the opportunity to voice his displeasure with his own team’s home crowd.
From ESPN Boston:
“It’s a tough place to play. The Meadowlands is always a tough place to play,” Brady replied. “The road environment is very different than our friendly home crowd, who, when I looked up, half the stadium was gone when we were up 21 points in the early fourth quarter, which I wasn’t so happy about. But I don’t think the Jets fans leave early.
Hey, it’s a free country so people should be able to come and go to a football game as they please – especially when they pay for the tickets.
But Brady’s right.
Apparently three Super Bowls and a 16-0 season have made the fan base in New England rather content. Even diehard Patriot fans will admit that the crowds at Gillette Stadium are quiet on a whole and for the life of me, I don’t get why someone would pay hundreds of dollars just to leave a game early.
That said, and not to get into a social or economical discussion here, but the majority of people that can afford ticket prices these days are professionals who also have better things to do than watch an entire football game. They’re not your typical diehard fan, so when the opportunity presents itself to head out early in order to beat traffic, people take it.
But again, Brady is right – especially about Jet fans. You wouldn’t see them leaving a game halfway through the fourth quarter.
