Pats Schedule Wasn’t Leaked

We posted an update to the item that appears below this specific blurb in the PFT Rumor Mill, pointing out that the schedule posted on the Pats’ official web site isn’t the actual schedule -- but for the two games that already have been formally announced: Week One against the Bills at home and Week Seven against the Bucs in England. Apparently, someone with the team’s web site opted to randomly plug in team names as he/she was filling out the table in which the 2009 schedule appears. We’re also told that the table is currently being reshuffled, and that the table ultimately will simply list all home games in the first half of the schedule, and all road games in the second half. (Indeed, the table already is different than it was when we first opened the link.) So, in a roundabout way, it was an unintended April Fool’s Day gag. We’re going out of our way to point this out because we don’t want Pats fans to begin buying plane tickets and making hotel reservations for road trips to places like Miami and New Orleans. If we owned a hotel in Miami or New Orleans, we might feel differently.