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During the 2010 off-season, the Patriots drafted Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett. [371] The team also made two trades for defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth and wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. [372] [373] In the first game of the 2011 season, the Patriots played the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football, and New England won 38–24. [374]
The Patriots have won six Super Bowl championships (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, and LIII). They also played in and lost Super Bowls XX, XXXI, XLII, XLVI, and LII. During the 2007 regular season, the Patriots became the only NFL team in history to win 16 games, and the first since the 1972 Miami Dolphins (in a 14-game season) to complete ...
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The Patriots play home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is 22 miles (35 km) southwest of ...
The game was played at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, and the Patriots won the game 28–7. [16] The teams met for their first regular season game during Week 3 of the inaugural season of the American Football League in 1960. The game was played at Nickerson Field at Boston University on Friday, September 23, 1960. The Bills scored a ...
The Patriots land their first NFL championship and quarterback Tom Brady wins his first Super Bowl MVP. This was also the first Super Bowl games played in February, after the season's schedule was ...
During this era, NBC broadcast pre-recorded and edited hour-long broadcasts of NFL games in the off-season under the title Best of Pro Football. On June 9, 1960, the league signed a five-year television contract with ABC, which brought in revenues of approximately $ 2,125,000 per year for the entire league. The deal called for ABC to broadcast ...
Along with the landmark 1958 championship game, in which the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in sudden death overtime, the 1960 NFL Championship Game between the Packers and Eagles is considered a seminal game in professional football history. The game marked the lone playoff defeat for Packers coach Vince Lombardi before his ...
There have been thirty starting quarterbacks for the Patriots since their founding in 1960. Babe Parilli was the franchise's first longtime starter, leading the Patriots to their only playoff berth and championship game appearance while a member of the American Football League (AFL). Following the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, Jim Plunkett was ...