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The Patriots game on Sunday was quite a treat. The main benefit of an 8:30 game is that no matter how incompetent a tailgating crew you have the game is so late that you have time to recover frm your failures. Many of our tailgating and Pats home game watching crew believe that this was our most successful tailgating experience yet.

Among the major highlights was that we tailgated with Alan and this time he had time to prepare his own food and drink. He brought some hamburgers that had been mixed with onions and tasted great. He also brought an ample supply of beer as did I. Plus we also brought lots of wine for Sarah and Hattie. We arrived at the parking lot a good 2 and a half hours early and the grill was up and running in less than ten minutes. Hattie even brought banana bread and rice krispy treats.

The only real challenge that we had as a group is that one of us had a newborn baby about three weeks ago and she had brought her breast pump. She had never tested how it would work without being directly powered. So when we put batteries into it she had expected it to run. Unfortunately the batteries did nothing and she had no working breast pump. Team tailgate had plenty of people with basic mechanical sense so we had a team of people all trying to fix a breast pump in the dark while hammered on beer, wine, and full on hamburgers, sausages, chips, and gaucamole.

As usual at home the Pats delivered a devastating loss to the Bills. Troy Brown even intercepted Drew Bledsoe making it the first time he had caught a pass by Bledsoe since Bledsoe left that Pats for the Bills.