The Revs are to the Patriots what a Mom n' Pop Store is to Walmart. While you might love the people and the atmosphere of the former, but the latter is the only one that can be economically viable for the future.
I think there is room to debate that. CompUSA, Circuit City, Linens & Things, Ultimate Electronics, and Best Buy say "hi." The model only works until it doesn't.
Macroeconomics are fine. That being said: Revs => Pats as US => Greece. One is a world benchmark, looked to by all as a pinacle of best practices and sound strategy. The other is a shithole where no amount of deck chair rearranging is going to be able to save them; they only reason they haven't collapsed under the weight of underwhelming revenues is because they're being propped up by the Unions they're in
Been to Europe lately? Even Spain has gorgeous roads and public spaces. 99.9% of the US looks like a shithole compared to Europe's economic equivalents of the third world. Boston's great but the infrastructure needs a lot of work. In some cases, you get what you pay for. Some of the European economies are used to paying for it through gradual (or in some cases not so gradual) but accelerated vs hard currency economies currency inflation instead of through explicit taxation, and when they got into the Euro zone, they were unable to do it anymore. The problem is exacerbated by their inability to effectively collect taxes for cultural reasons (including gigantic underground and cash economies) (part of the reason they got into the spending without borrowing or taxing, thereby creating inflation situation in the first place). Europe's problem is that it's trying to unite in a single currency countries which have a soft monetary policy with those that have historically had a hard monetary policy. The hard monetarists permitted the soft ones to improve their credit score (married up), but stops them from paying their accounts down with soft money. Off topic sorry.