Apparently, not everyone in the Patriots’ organization was reluctant to talk (or even think) about the team’s winning streak prior to last Sunday’s record-setting win over the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n
I was unaware of this until Keith Gentili (who plays a central role in chapter nine of This Pats Year<\/i>) emailed to hip me to it, but tickets to the New England-Miami game included some bold predictions. Specifically, the tickets include a slightly disguised “19 in a row.” They also depict Patriots players Tyrone Poole and Eugene Wilson, numbers 38 and 26 respectively, in action. The digits in Poole and Wilson’s numbers add up to 19. There’s an official in the picture, too. He’s wearing number 19.<\/p>\n
Pretty nifty little trick there. Kinda runs counter to what the team is all about — that is, the whole one-game-at-a-time philosophy — but, you know, what’s right for the guys on the field isn’t necessarily what’s right for the folks in the PR and ticket offices. They can (and probably should) spend time thinking about streaks, since that’s pretty much the game their heads need to be in.<\/p>\n
I guess the ticket makes a nice instant collectible for those who were at the game, too. And so it’s not surprising I’d find out about it from Keith, whose business is collectibles.<\/p>\n