The most disturbing thing this vacationer saw on his recent sojourn to the East Coast? Brother-in-law Marco’s television set. No, it had nothing to do with the technology itself: The guy had one of those great 50-inch LCD high-definition jobbies on which you could count the ladybugs per blade of glass from 20 feet; it was just that the hometown New England Patriots and the pigskin-chucking Matt Cassel filled the screen.

Watching Tom Brady’s would-be backup stumble and bumble with crystal clarity made me more aware than ever of that ticking clock imagined by Patriot fans…

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