Brady! Belichick! Boi-yoi-yoi-yoing!

 Well, I for one am glad Tom Brady and Bill Belichick hugged it out after the game. Aren't you?

I'm also glad we got our answer to the question, "How do you make Tom Brady the Vampire Quarterback actually look like he's 44 years old?"

Answer: "You let Belichick work on him the way he's worked on so many opposing QBs in the past."

And so here came Brady to Foxborough wearing enemy colors, and the Patriots fans poured out their love on him for the most part, and then Tom went out and had a thoroughly pedestrian game: 22-of-43, 269 yards, zero TDs. A Mitchell Trubisky stat line, minus the picks.

Patriots rookie Mac Jones, on other hand, was 31-of-40 for 275 yards and two touchdowns. The kid outplayed the Ageless One, with his seven rings and his eyes sparkling with unholy superfood-fueled life. He wasn't cowed at all about FACING TOM BRADY -- even though he never actually faced Brady, of course, on account of both are quarterbacks and so are never on the field at the same time. 

So Mac Jones carried the Patriots to 17 points and the Patriots defense held Brady (and the rest of the Buccaneers, though the storyline scarcely acknowledged them) to 19, and it all came down to Nick Folk spanking a 56-yard game-winning field goal attempt off the left upright for the Patriots.

Thus the pageant began with a bang and ended with a "Boi-yoi-yoi-yoing!" -- which is the cartoon version, and the Blob's favored alternative, to the currently over-popular "doink."

Buccaneers 19, Patriots 17.

Brady beats Belichick, even if he looks sort of "meh" doing it.

He salutes the fans in his old digs on his way off the field.

Later, Belichick stops by the Bucs locker room, and he and Brady have some bro time.

Belichick: "I got in your head a little, didn't I?"

Brady (scoffing): 'No, you didn't."

Belichick: "Yes I did."

Brady: "No you DIDN'T!"

Belichick: Yes I DID!"

And so it went, on this night to remember. And that we're all glad is over.