Imagine if the "patriots" of today were alive in 1776 ?

no cop killz

 

Of course the patriots of today are not those flag waving, cross bearing, assault rifle toting, hate speakers.......the real patriots are the old hippies and the neo-hippies.

 

real patriots know cam newton should b throwing bombz 2 odell beckham jr

 

Today's Patriots, if living in 1776, wouldn't have to fret about sitting home on Feb. 7, signing a QB, or the upcoming NFL draft April 29-May 1. They would, however, have to worry about dysentery, a leading cause of death in 1776 and an awful death at that, not so much today in New England.

Traveling to the future location of DC in Maryland, or to the Carolinas, to East or West Florida (as those staunch loyalist British territories were then known), to Louisiana (then governed by Spain), and elsewhere south of New England, they'd also have to worry about dying of malaria, another leading cause of death in 1776.

A trip to today's Denver, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, or Phoenix would have been practically impossible. It would have taken a real commitment even to reach today's Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, or Minneapolis, but any one of them would have been possible. The future locations of Cincinnati and Nashville were more within reach, but still quite a journey.

The West Coast from New England? A Boston sea captain and crew made it a couple of decades later, but a football team without very strong sailing skills and a good ship - they'd have died at sea in 1776. Instead, they died on the field in Miami this past season, in a 22-12 loss to the Dolphins on December 20th that ended their playoff aspirations. An ignominious demise, but better than a death by dysentery or malaria in 1776.