Tom Brady and Bill Belichick ruin everything.
I say that with just the slightest wink. I’m kidding, but only so much. I admire them for their longevity, their excellence, their intelligence, their ruthlessness. More than that, though, I admire them for the destruction that each man’s respective greatness leaves in his wake.
Take this just-finished slate of NFL games, for instance. Amid snow, freezing rain, and wind gusts that surpassed 50 mph at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, the Patriots beat the Bills, 14-10, on Monday, and in time the night might come to represent the most Belichickian game that Belichick has ever coached.