Sports Redux: While You're Reading This Headline, The Patriots Are Scoring Another Touchdown

Some time this winter, you'll no doubt read about a storm that dumps an inch of snow on some Southern locale and sends the entire town to hell in a handbasket. It happens every year; when you don't see it much, you don't know what to do with it, and it's good night, Charlotte. Or Little Rock. Or Nashville.

Maybe by the time winter hits Nashville, the Tennessee Titans will have forgotten the hell in a handbasket they were dispatched to yesterday by the wintry weather and the reappearance of the 2007 Patriots. The Pats rewrote huge sections of the NFL record book en route to a 59-0 incineration of the hapless Southerners.

We waited as CBS switched from the thrilling conclusion of the Ravens/Vikes game to a full suite of commercials, to a snow-covered Foxboro field (another bang-up job on that forecast, guys), and thought maybe the 0-5 Titans would be in for a rough day. When the Patriots put up 10 late in the first quarter, the Titans looked like they were ready for the bus to the airport to warm up. By halftime, there was a smoking crater on the sideline where the Titans once stood.

You want records? How about five touchdown throws in one quarter by Tom Brady? Rodney Harrison told Peter King that he needed six games to feel comfortable after his knee surgery. It's safe to say Brady looked comfortable yesterday. How about 45-0, the biggest halftime blowout margin in NFL history? Had Belichick not gone soft on Titan coach Jeff Fisher and pulled Brady in the second half, the Pats could have made a run at the 1940 title game record. We'll dream of seeing that in the Jets rematch.

"You never go into a game thinking it's going to be like this," said Belichick. "It's just our day today." Particularly noteworthy (besides the air assault) were Laurence Maroney, who ran for 123 yards, mostly going forwards even, and the defense, which held Tenessee to negative-7 passing yards and repeatedly stripped the ball from Titan rushers like they were hungry kids swiping a bag of circus peanuts.

The Pats get to travel to London next week to see another winless team, the 0-6 Buccaneers, and no doubt want to show the Brits another blowout. The Jets lost, so this morning we're all alone in first place in the AFC East.

The Bruins traded Chuck Kobasew to Minnesota for two right-wingers (in the hockey sense of the word, not teabaggers). Craig Weller's logged a little ice time in the NHL, and Alexander Fallstrom is a long-term prospect. The B's also put Milan Lucic on the injured list for at least a few weeks, and Looch will probably need surgery on his broken finger. The Celtics, meanwhile, rolled Toronto in preseason game #6; they have two more before they start counting.