See, now this seems to indicate it is kind of a Boston team. It’s just not something those of us “non-Bostoners” know.
I’ve lived in California my entire life and it has always seemed obvious to me that the New England Patriots are a Boston team. Foxboro is not far from Boston, Boston is the largest market in New England, and there isn’t a team with Boston in its name.
Never mind the fact that they used to actually be called the Boston Patriots.
A more interesting question is where the parade would be held for the Golden State Warriors, who play in Oakland. Would it be Oakland or San Francisco?
Maybe on the frozen-over lakes of hell? 
In all likelihood, both. When the Twins won in 1987 (I believe in 1991 as well, but I was out of state at the time) there were parades in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. The team completed the Minneapolis parade and drove straight from there to the St. Paul one.
I’m getting that now. To be fair, I do not follow football at all. Remember, I’ve only had the Lions in my area my entire life. It’s discouraging, to say the least.
Guy walks into a bar in Detroit with a dog. The Lion’s game is on the TV.
Bartender: Hey, you can’t come in here with a dog.
Just then the Lion’s kick a field goal and the dog jumps up on the bar and does three backflips.
Bartender: Nice, three backflips for a field goal, cute. OK you can stay. Here’s a beer on the house.
Guy: Thanks.
Bartender: What does he do when the Lion’s get a touchdown?
Guy: I don’t know, he’s only 3 years old.
It was sarcasm, not deliberate obtuseness. (But perhaps you are being deliberately obtuse.;))
But saying that Boston doesn’t have a football team is just plain silly. It has a football team, and that team is the New England Patriots. Just because other parts of New England have the same football team doesn’t mean that Boston doesn’t have one.
Does Manhattan have a baseball team? Yeah, it has two, the Yankees and the Mets, since it’s part of New York.
I was under the impression that the Pats, while a Boston team, played in a town that is roughly equidistant from NE’s 3 largest cities - Boston, Providence, and Worcester.
While this is true, it’s also true that the Giants and Jets play equally close to Newark than to New York City. Doesn’t mean that they are equally Newark teams.
Foxboro is on the Boston commuter rail lines. So, in fact, are Providence and Worcester. They are all, depending on the definition, part of Greater Boston.
Worcester is the 3rd largest city in New England? I had no idea, and like I said I grew up nearby.
They do, and they have a strong following in those cities. But they have always been and remain a Boston team. No one in New England would question that.
From the southern part of Boston, you can make Foxboro in 20 minutes. It would take you at least 25 , if not 30 minutes from Providence, so it’s no way near equidistant. Worcester, is way, way west (possibly in the Central Time Zone), about an hour from Foxboro.
The Lions didn’t score a touchdown for 3 years? I don’t think so. I find it hard to believe they’d go three games without scoring a touchdown, even at their worst. Do you have a cite for this?
Cite.
Actually, Worcester is the second largest city in New England. Providence is third.
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Come now, you’re exhibiting the very behavior you’re accusing me of.
1969 - 1979 was pretty good for New York.
The Mets won the WS in '69
The Jets won the Super Bowl in '69
The Knicks won NBA Championships in '70 and '73
The Yankees won the WS in '77 and '78
And in a little stretch, the Islanders won the first of 4 consecutive Stanley Cups in the '79-'80 season.
The decade has been even better if you’re a CT Boston sports fan (as something like 45% of the state is) - because then you’ve also got UConn (3 NCAA M BB championships since 99, 6 women’s BB championships since 2000, going from a I-AA team to Big East Champions in football, 2 1st round picks in the most recent MLB draft).
Just saying. 
Lighten up Francis. And what exactly am I supposed to be getting over? I’m merely staring my interpretation of the facts.
No, my obtuseness was entirely unintentional.
I know it’s pedantic hair splitting, but that’s one of the fun things about sports. The fact that people in Boston consider the Patriots their team doesn’t mean that much to me because I’m sure people in Worcester and providence feel the same way, and that seems to have been the intention of renaming them. A great idea to broaden appeal in large neighboring cities, but to me it removes the exclusivity of it being a Boston team. So, while I’d agree it’s a great time to be a sports fan in Boston, claiming that Boston won the Super Bowl strikes me as odd.