1. Kraft began buying the team (he had tried back in the 80s) and 2. Bill Parcells started coaching a young Drew Bledsoe. Suddenly, they were competitive as hell, playing spoiler against angry Dan Marino. They even got cool new uniforms.
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Best of all, I got to watch Ben Coates, one of my favorite players ever, who scared the bejesus out of everyone as he ran them over like a tank. I still have his jersey in my closet. One of the few I can't bare to get rid of.
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The teams were so much fun to watch, but could never put it all together. There was the disheartening loss to favre's packers in superbowl 31. Then there were the sad, uneven Pete Carroll years (he was far from the coach he is now).
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Enter Bill Belichick. New Englanders conveniently like to forget how they felt about him at first: a prickly square who basically ducked out of the Jets organization to take the pay day here. His first season they went 5-11.
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The media treated him mercilessly, but it turns out it would be his only losing season. Everything was about to change, but for a lot of reasons people forget.
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Cause people forget that Tom Brady was an accident. Drew Bledsoe was our tried and true superstar with his rocket arm. Brady was just some kid who was a safe back-up. But when Bledsoe got hurt, Brady came in and despite low numbers, he just kept winning.
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People also forget that in the AFC championship, Brady actually got hurt and Bledsoe had come back in to finish and win the game, leading to much talked about "quarterback controversy" going into the big game.
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Of course, there really wasn't one. You go with the guy who got you there, but that didn't stop the media from having a field day and Bono from lending his two cents and saying they should start Bledsoe (really).
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And everyone definitely forgets that everyone LOVED that patriots team. Yup! The plucky young upstarts against The Rams, who had won the year prior and people were getting sick of the "Greatest Show On Turf" attitude. No one remembers this shit.
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