Where's Fearless? The home turf.

[Mark Farinella]

Welcome to Gillette Stadium, where the sun is shining and a few poofy clouds are wafting past the lighthouse in the end zone. We're three hours before kickoff of the game between the 5-3 Patriots and the 5-3 Buffalo Bills, and the conversation has turned to Notre Dame football (or the lack thereof following yet another loss to Boston College) as the Providence Journal's Jim Donaldson (Notre Dame '73) is calling for Charlie Weis' head.

Special guest in the press box today? Former Springfield Union-News (now called the Republican) beat writer Carlo Imelio, who makes a trip out here each year to reconnect with his buddies on the beat. Another welcome visitor is Judy Battista of the New York Times, who feels our pain when it comes to having to glean anything unique out of a Bill Belichick press conference from her frequent visits to Foxboro.

The Sun Chronicle's representation today is me in the driver's seat, Lauren Carter riding shotgun with sidebar and notebook duties, Juliet Pennington in the back seat looking for celebrities and Keith Nordstrom hanging onto the bumper, camera in hand.

I'll be back in a little while to provide information about inactives and other exciting stuff. By the way, I'm told that space in the print edition is tight for Monday's paper, so keep your eye on the Web page for "web extra" stories.