Summary
"Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly e... Full description
- Football, in spite of itself
- Respite
- The Super Bowl without jock straps
- The monkey's ass
- Nuggets
- "Tom Brady here"
- "Beware the pissed off pretty boy"
- Garish fist ornaments
- Ballghazi
- Cheater
- No one buys tickets to watch a morality play
- Dings?
- Whuppings
- "We pay him damn well to be neutral"
- No broke dicks
- Roger and me
- The big splat
- Immortality gets old
- "Start blow-drying Teddy Koppel's hair 'cause this one's done"
- American carnage
- Patriotism
- Cheesehead elegy
- "We don't want you in Los Angeles"
- "I'm drunk, I'm stupid, I'm a Pats fan," the man told police
- The TV reporter in the Belichick underwear
- Clocks and sitcoms
- Turn-ons
- This man's liver belongs in Canton
- "Faith, family, and football...probably not in that order"
- "We need a black Charlton Heston"
- Just compartmentalize, baby
- The last visit.