COMMENTARY
It’s been almost 28 years since the most consequential moment in Patriots history that nobody talks about.
That season finale in 1993, when Drew Bledsoe found Michael Timpson for the game-winning touchdown against the Miami Dolphins in overtime, was more than an ornamental gewgaw of a 5-11 season. You could argue that, while not the birth of a dynasty, that Sunday afternoon gave us the nascence of the New England Patriots franchise as currently constituted.
For if the new owner and the new uniforms hadn’t already made it perfectly clear, the Patriots were hell-bent on putting the miserable qualities of being a New England football fan in the past.