{"id":657733,"date":"2026-01-06T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:07:21","slug":"business-booming-at-patriot-place-ahead-of-playoffs-it-feels-like-10-years-ago-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657733\/","title":{"rendered":"Business booming at Patriot Place ahead of playoffs: &#8220;It feels like 10 years ago again.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots fans are fired up and businesses are thriving at Gillette Stadium ahead of the first round playoff matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/nfl-playoff-schedule-new-england-patriots-los-angeles-chargers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Chargers next Sunday night<\/a>. With the playoffs underway there is a flurry of activity taking place at Patriot Place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the Patriots ProShop on Monday, Drake Maye jerseys and MVP t-shirts were flying off the racks. Many of these fans were at the game Sunday afternoon against the Dolphins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had everybody. We had the best coach, we had the best defense coach, we got the best team, and we got Maye. I mean, it seems like a win,&#8221; Patriots fan Kelsey Wakelin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sales triple at some businesses<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots success is also a win for local businesses at Gillette Stadium.  At Citizen Crust, the playoffs mean more busy nights like they had on Sunday, one pumping out more pizzas than ever before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we are packed, we have a line all the way down our patio it&#8217;s insane,&#8221; Citizen Crust manager Ashlee Morin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s honestly triple of what we normally would do. The flow has definitely come back, it feels like 10 years ago again.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A playoff run is also big for businesses like CardVault by Tom Brady. &#8220;Booming! Absolutely booming,&#8221; manager Tyler Soriano said. &#8220;Everyone can&#8217;t get enough of Drake Maye rookie cards and all the other Patriots players like TreVeyon Henderson and Rhamondre Stevenson.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The local card and memorabilia shop is also seeing sales triple. And for most of these places it&#8217;s all hands on deck on game day. &#8220;We are open every day for playoffs. We even open after the game as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots fans are fired up and businesses are thriving at Gillette Stadium ahead of the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,18106,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-657733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-gillette-stadium","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115846660204262399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}