FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots being the New England Patriots, everything was done over the past several days to downplay what was scheduled to happen at Gillette Stadium on Sunday night.
But even when you try as hard as Bill Belichick to swat away questions you don’t want to answer or have players repeat that it’s just a game on the schedule, Sunday night was unprecedented.
Tom Brady, The Man for New England for two decades, the greatest quarterback who has ever quarterbacked, was back in the stadium he ruled, on the field he commanded — in another team’s uniform.