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Pats Fans Find Few Friends in Enemy Territory for NFL Opener

CHICAGO — Patriots fans around the country are looking for sports bars where they won't get booed out of the joint when glamour-boy quarterback Tom Brady gets rolling.

What NFL fan outside of New England hasn't faced a similar dilemma?

"There's jealousy and there is envy. Everybody wants a winning team," from Mark Simoneau, a Boston native moved to Chicago 12 years ago. "We were jealous of the Yankees for a long time, and like everybody else we were looking to poke a hole in that success. That's what the Patriots are now. Envy is what people do.