New England Patriots fans should be used to celebrating Super Bowl victories by now. Even if some are too young to remember Tom Brady's first championship, the entire Patriots nation has experienced the thrill of their team's triumph in the last five years, a stretch in which it's won an unprecedented three titles. Perhaps the near-annual monotony of New England's success has left a certain subset of fans feeling empty inside?

There's no other way to explain this ugly brawl that broke out between tens of Patriots followers during Tuesday's championship parade in Boston.

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Well, there may be some justification other than a horde of twenty-something men resorting to violence as a result of a growing existential crisis: alcohol. Boston, after all, isn't exactly known for its puritan approach to binge drinking.

Emotions run high in professional sports, even for those who watch them rather than actually participate. Ask New Orleans Saints fans how they felt in the immediate aftermath of their team's controversial loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship game, and you're sure to be met with some fiery intensity. United States senator Bill Cassidy even engaged in a fiery speech about the no-call on Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman on the floor of the senate building. But throwing punches and kicking people laying on the ground, obviously, stands entirely apart from such heated and ultimately meaningless rhetoric.

Could this be the start of a new Patriots tradition? Let's hope cooler, smarter, more mature minds prevail the next time New England wins a Super Bowl.