‘”I’ve never told my kids to hate the Patriots,” said Bestpitch, whose children range in age between 4 and 9 years old. “But they’ve been watching games for the last four years and, on their own, they’ve just taken to hating New England. It almost seems like a built-in switch clicked on and they’ve picked up on the fact that when someone beats you up for so long, you just don’t like them.”‘