Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy is talking out after getting a barrage of hate for his New England Patriots fandom.
“All I’ve tried to do for the previous 2 weeks is raise folks up. Increase their spirits. Make them a part of this Tremendous Bowl expertise,” Portnoy, 48, shared through X on Sunday, February 8. “And what do I get for my bother? Individuals being nasty past perception to me.”
The media mogul added, “Nicely we might have misplaced however at the very least I can nonetheless relaxation my head on the pillow tonight realizing I win and lose with class. Not like lots of people on-line. If being a jerk to me on-line makes you content I’m unhappy for you and can pray for you.”
A number of hate tweets had been shared through X on Sunday beneath Portnoy’s posts all through the sport.
“Tom Brady thinks you’re a scum bag and needs nothing to do with you by the best way,” one social media consumer wrote. Others slammed his peak with others calling out his previous drama with the NFL — extra on that shortly.
Portnoy attended the 2026 Tremendous Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, alongside a number of Barstool Sports activities workers on Sunday. He shared a number of movies from the stadium on X because the Patriots misplaced to the Seattle Seahawks 29-13.
“We gotta make changes,” Portnoy mentioned throughout an “emergency press convention” shared through social media throughout halftime. “We will’t really feel good.”
Portnoy known as out the offense for his or her “horrible” gameplay throughout a video posted on the finish of Tremendous Bowl LX. He famous that shedding “by no means will get simpler.”
“Worst offense I’ve ever seen,” he continued. “I used to be in jail the final time we received. [Tom] Brady’s in all probability laughing like, ‘Yeah.’ So, we form of obtained killed.”
Portnoy’s jail remark was a reference to when he was detained throughout Tremendous Bowl LIII in February 2019. He was kicked out of the sport that yr after making a faux media credential and dressing in disguise for entry right into a Tremendous Bowl-related occasion days prior.
Portnoy’s longtime drama with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stems again to 2015. On the time, Portnoy and three of his workers (who’re colloquially generally known as the Brady 4) obtained arrested after staging a protest within the foyer of NFL Headquarters over Brady’s now-infamous Deflategate. They had been banned from all Tremendous Bowl occasions following the incident.
The ban was lifted as Portnoy and the opposite three members of the Brady 4 attended Tremendous Bowl LX on Sunday.
“Mr. Portnoy can purchase a ticket to the sport,” the NFL confirmed in a press release earlier this month.
Afterward Sunday night time, Portnoy posted a clip of Patriots quarterback Drake Maye getting emotional in his postgame press convention.
“That is all I wanted to see. That my man cares as a lot as we do,” Portnoy captioned the clip. “We’ll be again. No person anticipated us to be right here. The long run continues to be so so so shiny.”’
Portnoy additional addressed the Patriots’ loss throughout “Wake Up Barstool” on Monday, February 9.
“It was a troublesome one. If you’re us and also you’re who we’re, it’s the man within the enviornment,” Portnoy mentioned. “We’ve been in loads of these soccer video games, and now over the course of the franchise 6-6. It’s the man within the enviornment.”
