50%? Do you mean nationwide? I live in Mass, and it's nowhere near 50%. The lord Jeebus knows it's gotten bad, but nowhere near that. We used to be able to walk up gameday and get tickets. Now, they're gone in ten minutes the day they go on sale. That part, and the pink hats, is a bit frustrating, but I'll take the good with the bad, I guess.
Also, yes, the girl fans love Brady. He's super cute, yanno? Cleft chin and all. But, he won a lot more big games when he didn't have "all those weapons." lol
FAN BASE
Nationwide, but do not take that the wrong way. Even with the dolphins a lot our fans in the 70's were either colts fans (Don Shula) or not fans at all. What can you expect they became a team 1966.
I bring up the past because when you think of how a fan base is built first thing that needs to happen is winning(of course). Now i was not born in 70's but if it was not for my grandfather that was more of a Don Shula fan then a colts, then he followed don when he went to the dolphins then became a fins fan, chances is i might of been a colts fan for some part of my life.
I loved every team he did. Even if I was a colts fan I would still become a fins fan because I was born in Miami, love that we are the only team to go undefeated (which I am OK with not being the only, but would not be OK if NE did {sorry}, at least we were the first), Dan Marino (best QB period he was the team).
True Bandwagoners vs True Fans
Going to what I was quoting to he was saying it will be interesting when New England goes on to the downward slope. I agree cause this is when a Fan base is truly tested. You see we are at a completely different point then the PATS.
Dolphins has have their glory days and just have gone down the downward slope (A LONG ONE) and now finally are going up (somewhat). If you want to look at Dolphins true fan base, go back 2007 and see the people who still wore dolphins shirts and still said they where fin fans.
Soon your team will come to the same thing maybe not as bad or maybe even worst who knows, but one thing is for sure your bandwagoners will be gone. And the ones that did have a different favorite team or just jump along because you are now a winning team will become part of your true fan base.
So when I say 50% I truly believe that maybe even more, but I think at least 35% will stay when you start doing bad and become true fans.
Tom Brady and his toys
Ever sense Brady became the NE QB he has always all the weapons. Not just the offense, he had the defense, and he had an amazing kicker that BTW won two of your Superbowl's. The one amazing thing that Tom had better then anything else was the offensive line.
Now you do not have the same team and that defense is rebuilding, but what NE successfully did is make an overpowering offense that when is working fully helps out your struggling defense that will make you like the super bowl winning NE us dolphins fan have learn to hate.
The reason why it pisses me off is Dan NEVER had what Tom had not even close. And when people say Tom is a better or equally as good QB it is truly frustrating. Now saying Tom in with Joe Montana is more like it and those type of QB's.
