Patriots vs. Dolphins: Fan Notes from the Game

So what are you guys planning on doing this January when the Patriots’ season is over?

Wait, what? What’s that? It might be a little too early to start making posteason plans, because it’s still September and the Patriots are figuring things out? And they beat the Dolphins handily yesterday and all that doom and gloom of the past few weeks might have been a little reactionary? Oh, OK. Good to know. For a minute there I thought that this team sucked and we may as well just give up now. Glad everyone set me straight!

I went to my first ever Patriots game as a kid in 1993, a 28-14 beatdown at the hands of the Houston Oilers. When I went off to college in the Providence area, I started going to…