Ticket To Ride

1993 NFL preseason game at Foxboro.I mentioned in the first T2R segment I would only feature sports events of some importance or memory.NFL preseason barely rates that.Unless it was one of Joe Montana's first games as a Chief,and the only time I got to see the greatest QB the game has had to offer play live.This was also Drew Bledsoe's first season with the Pats,and although he never got the job done in his era,the excitement was high for this supposed saviour of the then pitiful Pats.Bill Parcells was the new coach,so everything looked up.Except the new uniforms.I clearly remember the crowd booing as the Pats took the field,having abandoned the red,white and blue of Pat the Patriot for what was being called

the"Elvis"helmet,and the gawdy design scheme.At halftime a plane flew over the stadium with a tail message reading something along the lines of  "Bring back the old unis",and the crowd went nuts.Over the last 17 years the once terrifying uniforms have been refined to something more eye pleasing.I honestly don't remember the outcome of the game,nor the date which was not on the ticket,but I do remember it was August of 1993.