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The Patriots started the season 2–4, but went on to win seven consecutive games, battling Buffalo for the division crown throughout the season. New England finished the season 10–7 in the first NFL season with 17 games, clinching the #6 seed in the playoffs, their first without Brady since 1998.
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Patriots did not draft a player in the first round on eight occasions. [1] Four of the team's first-round picks— John Hannah, Mike Haynes, Ty Law, and Richard Seymour —have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [23] The Patriots used four first-round picks in the 1960s to select players— Gary Collins, Jack Concannon, Tommy ...
The team was known as the Boston Patriots for its first eleven seasons 1960–70, [5] and had played in various stadiums in the Boston area. For six seasons, 1963–68, the Patriots played in Fenway Park, home of baseball's Boston Red Sox. [6] Like most baseball stadiums, Fenway was poorly suited as a football venue.
Bob Yates. Robert E. Yates (November 20, 1938 – April 16, 2013) was an American football offensive lineman who played college football for Syracuse and professionally in the American Football League (AFL) for the Boston Patriots. [1] Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Yates was a standout student-athlete at Montpelier High School.