FOXBOROUGH, MA – There’s a reason why football players like to play for the New England Patriots. You will be shocked to know that this reason is not the bust-a-gut sideline comedy stylings of the head coach, or the essential natural wonder of lower Route 1 in Massachusetts, which is where this team actually plays, despite all those wonderful nighttime shots of Boston that the networks like to show to gull the rubes.
It’s not even the consistent success the franchise has enjoyed since Tom Brady took over at quarterback in 2001, although that success is the product of the real reason players come here to play.