LAWRENCE — Patty Cresta will be a initial to announce herself madly in adore with a New England Patriots and she wants a whole universe to know it.
“I am a biggest Patriots fan we will ever meet,” pronounced Cresta, 48, a long-time Lawrence resident, whose life seems to revolve around a Super Bowl-bound group that faces a New York Giants subsequent weekend.
“When a Patriots go to a Super Bowl, you’re going to hear me entertaining my group on. I’m only a demented fan. I’m violent about my a Patriots and I’m only so unapproachable of it,” she said.
When she’s not bustling operative as an partner bank manager during a Methuen code of Bank of New England, spending time with her beloved or her 3 children (ages 17-25), Cresta gives her amount courtesy to a Pats.
“I live Patriots everyday,” pronounced Cresta, whose home and bureau are dominated with Patriots memorabilia. At home, she wears Patriots residence slippers and pajamas. She also has a Pats razor, towels and face cloths. Her automobile sports Pats logos and gets flashy on diversion day.
When a Patriots played in a AFC Championship diversion final Sunday, she flashy her bureau with Patriots equipment and skeleton to do a same for subsequent week as a Pats conduct to Indianapolis to play a Giants. She goes to a few games a year and final Sunday got a possibility to watch her group from “nose-bleed seats” she was means to buy during some-more than double face value.
Normally, she watches many of a games during home on television. She brags that she never misses a diversion when a Pats are on and that she schedules her life around a team.
“I won’t go somewhere if they’re on,” pronounced Cresta, who pronounced she’s been following a Pats given she was a girl, eventually apropos a hard-core fan after Bob Kraft bought a group 18 years ago.
“If they’re on, all stops. If we have plans, we cancel them. we don’t ever skip a game. Ever. And when Bill Belichick came, that’s when we became a revolutionary fan. we have a outrageous vanquish on Bill Belichick, If we were ever propitious adequate to accommodate him, we could die and know that my life dream has been fulfilled,” she said, observant she has a print of Belichick on her bureau desk.
When Cresta carries on infrequent review with family, friends or coworkers, a speak customarily focuses on a Pats.
“When we start articulate about my Patriots, we get jumpy and really vehement and we started wayward on,” Cresta said.
“I consider it’s them winning. It’s a fad of how that whole group and whole classification has such a heart. This group we have in New England is like no other. It’s some-more than a brotherhood. It’s some-more than only a family,” she said.
“And when they’re not personification well, we will never spin them off. we watch a diversion to a really end. we am not a band-wagon fan. we adore them even when they stink,” she said.
Cresta can’t get adequate of a Pats.
She reads all she can about a group and even follows some of a players on twitter.
Even on a prohibited Jul day off from work, she prefers to expostulate by herself to Foxboro to watch a Pats in training camp. That’s where she got to accommodate receiver Deion Branch final year. Branch hugged her for a sketch and autographed her shirt.
On Sunday morning, she skeleton to leave her residence during 6 a.m. to expostulate down to Foxboro for a group “send-off” rally.
“I wish to get in line early to get a good chair so we can hearten a group on and uncover a many support we can. If that’s not love, we don’t know what is,” she said.
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