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ESPN’s Mike Reiss on his career, covering the Patriots, and dealing with Bill Belichick

Ask Mike Reiss what his top NFL moments are and he can’t list just one. It’s understandable: the author and Patriots beat reporter for ESPN has covered the team for more than 20 years, a career that began with the Patriot Football Weekly in 1997 and included a stop at the Boston Globe and Boston.com, where he tirelessly fed his blog, Reiss’s Pieces.

Reiss remembers a time when Patriots games were barely televised and he was just a young kid, fascinated by box scores, who’d attend games with his father, Roy.

Boston.