For Cris Collinsworth, a visit to Gillette Stadium evokes so many amazing memories that’s he has come to “expect greatness.”
“We’ve seen so many unbelievable games there,” Collinsworth, the color commentator for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, said on a conference call this week.
It doesn’t take that long a memory.
The New England Patriots are set to play the Green Bay Packers in another highly anticipated matchup of quarterbacks — this time between Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — Sunday night in Foxborough. But the team was also featured in the primetime slot just three weeks earlier against the Kansas City Chiefs, a high-scoring shootout that more than delivered on its hype.