The game changed from what I had expected to see, Michael Vick and Warrick Dunn running around in all directions, when Vick showed-up at the game unable to play due to an injury. That was among the predictions for why the Pats would face a different team from the one that beat the Eagles on the opening Monday night game. Basically the superstar running back style quarterback has a fatal flaw. They get pummeled as they run and don’t make it to half of the games each season. We were without last years defense adding Richard Seymour to the list of lost defensive superstars reporting out for an injury too so it looked like the injury toll evened the game.

The game was being watched from Bedford because we had a 4PM wedding to attend at the Lutheran Church in Bedford. So Sarah and I got dressed in the fourth quarter for the wedding only to see the Pats slowly losing their nice sturdy 15 point lead. I did my tie while watching the Pats give-up a freak interception. As the Pats had been whittled down to an 8 point lead we drove to the church listening to the game in the car for a few minutes.

The wedding ceremony was beautiful. During it I was saved the heartache of the Pats getting tied with a touchdown and a two point conversion. I only had my cell phone tell me about the touchdown, but because Sprint and web browsing on cell phones is slower than using morse code to get the score of the game all I could learn was that it was 28-26 Pats near the end of the fourth quarter. So I was imagining that the Pats had stopped a two point conversion as I prayed that what God had brought together today nothing could cast asunder. My marriage to the Patriots was unlikely to reach any rift or any asunder casts unless they suddenly started on a terrible losing streak and rescinded our season tickets. If the 80’s didn’t scare me off what would?

Upon leaving the wedding and heading for the reception I learned that the Adam V. had punched in a last minute field goal and based on the callers into talk radio, Belichick had gotten emotional about the win. A little tear of relief came to my eye as I heard this.