It happened so long ago now that just thinking about it makes this aging man’s sciatica act up. And I don’t even have sciatica as far as I know.
But two irrefutable sources, pro-football-reference.com and the calendar, do confirm that Drew Bledsoe – forever young in the minds of Patriots fans of a certain age, but somehow 52 years old now – made his debut more than 31 seasons ago, on Sept. 5, 1993.
Bledsoe, the No. 1 overall pick in that year’s draft out of Washington State, completed 14 of 30 passes for 148 yards, 2 touchdowns (the first of his career fittingly being a 54-yarder to tight end and first-ballot Hall of Nearly Canton-Worthy inductee Ben Coates) and an interception in the Patriots’ season-opening 38-14 loss to the Bills.