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The St. Louis Stallions was the name of a proposed National Football League (NFL) franchise which was to have been located in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1990s.There were two attempts to get a team with that name in St. Louis, which had been without a professional football franchise since the end of the 1987 season, when the Cardinals left the city to move to Phoenix, Arizona.
Suspicion that the Patriots would move to St. Louis began during the 1992 season, [3] and intensified as bidding for the league’s two 1995 expansion franchises heated up, [note 1] with the general belief that the Patriots would be moved to St. Louis as the Stallions [note 2] if that city lost its expansion bid. [4]
Orthwein intended to move the team to his native St. Louis (where it would have been renamed as the St. Louis Stallions), but instead sold the team in 1994 for $175 million to Boston paper magnate Robert Kraft, who had bought the Patriots' then-home, Foxboro Stadium, out of bankruptcy in 1988. [16]
Tyree DeSean St. Louis (born May 8, 1997) is a former American football offensive tackle. He played college football at the University of Miami , and signed with the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2019.
The 1998 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 29th season in the National Football League ... Drew Bledsoe's season ended in a 32–18 loss at St. Louis.
Though the Patriots scored twenty or more points just five times during the season, they were able to upset playoff teams such as the Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills and New York Jets. It was the last season where the Patriots were owned by Victor Kiam, who was forced to sell the team to St. Louis businessman James Orthwein in order to settle a debt.
The 1986 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 17th season in the National Football League and 27th overall. The Patriots matched their 11–5 record from the previous season, but this time they finished first in the AFC East , thus winning the division title.
The 7–4 Patriots hosted the 6–5 Colts as the AFC East looked to be another Buffalo Bills runaway with the Bills a game ahead of New England and two ahead of both Indianapolis and Miami. The Patriots took over the game from the opening quarter as Drew Bledsoe tossed touchdowns to Shawn Jefferson and Terry Glenn for a 17–0