The coach on how to make proper peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Ahh, YouTube.

Ok, so the Patriots rolled up 56 points on the Bills last night. Amazing.

And we don’t even hate the Bills. How many points will we score on Shula’s “Asterisk” Dolphins? On the “You cheated, so you didn’t really beat us all those times” Steelers? On the Jets? Can the scoreboards roll triple digits?

We’re all excited to welcome football season, especially since the Patriots destroyed the Jets. Sadie’s getting used to how we handle football Sundays in the Butler household.

The Herald runs a great story this morning on the Butler family’s favorite player, Vince Wilfork.

Were it not for the presence of Tom Brady, Vince Wilfork might be the best player on the best team in football.

At worst, he’s in the Patriots’ top three, which makes it all the more amazing that three years ago, 20 players heard their names called before his at the 2004 draft.

I was sad this morning hearing of Kurt Vonnegut’s passing. I truly enjoyed his books — especially Cat’s Cradle and Galapagos. He spoke at my Syracuse graduation in 1994, rocking the Carrier Dome. He was an ornery old coot, writing screeds against the administration in 2002 that others wouldn’t dare until 2006. I’ll miss him.

This afternoon, I saw that Drew Bledsoe has retired. Bledsoe was the key to the Patriots renaissance in the mid-nineties. I had to suffer through all the 2-14 years, including the ghastly Coach Mac era, and Bledsoe, Parcells and Kraft turned it around. He didn’t end up with the Hall of Fame career we all expected, but he was a classy guy. I wish him well on his Montana ranch.

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Our Tom may have gotten himself into a little more trouble.

My search dashboard lit up with Brady searches this morning. My team writes the content spotlights (the “Our picks” at the top of some search results), so we needed to figure out what links would be most useful for folks. For this one, we pulled the original Brazilian site that broke the rumor. Unfortunately, none of us speak Portuguese, so we ran it through Google’s automated translator.

I’m not sure Google’s automated translator is all that accurate:

It will be that it would from there come the so great discomfort with the pregnancy of former-namorada of Tom the Brady, current boyfriend of Gisele?

Universal Hub points us over to Deadspin, where the masses are discussing how they will watch a game in which neither team — the Pats or the Colts — is liked outside of its hometown.

People outside Indianapolis dislike the Colts because of Peyton Manning’s ubiquity (4 separate commercials for different brands during the Pats/Chargers game!). People outside New England dislike the Pats because they just keep winning. After a while, no one roots for Goliath.

If the Pats and Saints win this weekend (as I think they will), no one outside 495 will be rooting for New England. And that’s ok. I can’t wait to see how Belichick will turn this into a motivator for the team. “Wait a second? Are we being disrespected? We’ll show them. We’ll shock the world!”

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The one advantage of having all these late games (including next week) is that the baby is asleep and not subjected to the endless stream of screams, gasps, curses and shrieks that accompany playoff football.

Yesterday’s game was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Some of us in the room were worried, but I knew Brady would come through in the end (and that the Chargers would self-destruct).

(p.s. for LT: The easiest way to keep people from celebrating on your field is to win the game…)

The Patsies destroyed the Steelers last night. It was a joy to watch, especially after hearing all the trash talk coming from Pittsburgh ever since the AFC Championship game last January.

Borges goes off on the mouths that roared.