FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- “I didn’t think about that. Time flies.” -- Tom Brady
The New England Patriots host the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL’s season opener Thursday night, which comes exactly nine years to the day when the teams last met in the first week of the season. It was a 2008 game that produced one of the toughest moments in the decorated NFL career of the Patriots’ longtime starting quarterback.
No one in New England needs a reminder of what unfolded that day, the result of Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard blitzing and lunging toward Brady’s left knee as running back Sammy Morris attempted to block him.