Because the Jets are scum. Well yeah, but rooting for the Pats is like rooting for the Yankees. except the nfl has a hard salary cap, so the pats are consistently winning because they're smarter than almost everybody, not because they just outspend everybody. Oddly enough, apparently they do have the highest payroll in the NFL. They happened to resign (extend?) Brady in an uncapped year, so that's not really a surprise