Spent a few hours the past two weeks doing what one does when a certain football team that spoiled you with nine Super Bowl appearances in an 18-year span isn’t part of the current competition or conversation.
I had a mini-film festival of the documentaries and highlight reels from the six times the Patriots were champions. The assorted NFL Films homages are all so familiar now, the stories told and retold through the years. Twenty years later, and you still chuckle knowingly when John Madden suggests taking a knee, right?
But new, or refreshed, realizations do present themselves, sometimes in the context of what’s happening to the team at the moment.