Excellent article. Hate to nitpick, though, but this bit of historic revisionism blemished it for me a bit.
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"You know the rest. Parcells drafted Bledsoe, McGinest, Brown, Johnson, Martin, Bruschi and Law. Now that the Pats were respectable, Bob Kraft bought them. "
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Errrrr, no..no. Kraft bought the team BEFORE they were respectable. Before the 1993 season. McGinest, Johnson, Martin, Bruschi and Law were all drafted AFTER Kraft bought the team. Brown was drafted in a round so low it doesn't even exist anymore. Today he would have been a street rookie free agent. His drafting did not bring repectability to the Pats at the time. In fact Parcells even cut him after he made the team.
So while it is a cute and funny article (and well-written), the real man who saved the Patriots and built the dynasty was one Robert Kraft.
Without him, they would be in St Louis right now.