In sports, revenge is fun. It makes for great back-and-forth at the water cooler, it’s a just-add-water topic on talk radio, and the headlines write themselves. But there are two kinds of sports revenge. There’s “Mission Accomplished” revenge, which is what the Red Sox earned in 2004 when they overwhelmed the Yankees in the American League Championship Series and stormed back to win. And then there’s “Anticipated Revenge,” which is what we’re attaching to the 2016 Patriots before they’ve played so much as a preseason game. “Revenge Tour 2016” is what a lot of people have called it, me included. And everyone knows what...
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