Crash, crash, crash.
Outside the car window, rain poured down, blurring the glass into an impressionist painting, with green, blue, and black all chaotically mixed into a mass of gray. The decaying autumn leaves fell into the mud, red and yellow drifting helplessly in the rushing water, vitality fading away bit by bit in the stormy weather. Even through the window, the cold, damp air could be felt seeping in—
Clearly, this was all utterly terrible.
December in Foxborough lived up to its reputation.
In competitive sports, records are made to be broken; but there are some records in the long course of history that seem unbreakable.
For example, in the NFL, from the 2002 season to the 2009 season, the New England Patriots maintained an unbeaten record in December's regular-season games.
Before their shocking home loss to the Miami Dolphins on December 6, 2009, Belichick and Brady together created a record of twenty-one unbeaten games in December, spanning seven years.
