I'm still heart broken about the prospect of Patty in anything but teal. I get why the team didn't match what TOR offered (seeing as it is the richest contract ever offered to a 38 year-old player), and I get why he couldn't say no to it, but my hockey heart wishes he had retired and ridden off into the sunset on a teal and black horse.
As for the Boston teams, I was indifferent to all of them but the pats*. I didn't like them, didn't hate them, sort of identified with the detest of the Yankees (I'm also an A's fan), but had no real opinion one way or the other. Then I moved here... after several years of Boston "fans" telling me that, because I live here now, I have to abandon my loyalties and become a Boston fan, I absolutely despise, root against, and revel in the misery of, all of their teams.