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The New England Patriots are a professional football team that has enjoyed varying degrees of success throughout its checkered history. Under owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots won three Super Bowls during a four-year period (2001-04). The team originated when Boston businessman William H. "Billy" Sullivan Jr. was awarded the eighth and final franchise in the upstart American Football League on Nov. 16, 1959. Originally known as the Boston Patriots, the team played home games at several venues during the 1960s, including six years at Fenway Park. The Patriots were one of 10 AFL teams that joined the NFL when the two leagues merged on Feb. 1, 1970. The following year, t...
The New England Patriots are a professional football team that has enjoyed varying degrees of success throughout its checkered history. Under owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots won three Super Bowls during a four-year period (2001-04). The team originated when Boston businessman William H. "Billy" Sullivan Jr. was awarded the eighth and final franchise in the upstart American Football League on Nov. 16, 1959. Originally known as the Boston Patriots, the team played home games at several venues during the 1960s, including six years at Fenway Park. The Patriots were one of 10 AFL teams that joined the NFL when the two leagues merged on Feb. 1, 1970. The following year, the team was renamed the New England Patriots and started playing home games at newly built Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The venue would be renamed twice, first as Sullivan Stadium (1983-89) in honor of the man who founded the franchise and later as Foxboro Stadium (1990-2001) after Sullivan sold the team to Victor Kiam, owner and CEO of Remington Products in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1988. In 1992, Kiam sold the controlling interest of the team to James Orthwein. The ownership changed hands two years later when Kraft, who strategically purchased Sullivan Stadium in November 1988 with the hopes of buying the team some day, fulfilled a lifelong dream when he became the fourth owner in Patriots history on Feb. 25, 1994. The following day fans responded to the sale by purchasing nearly 6,000 season tickets, a single-day sales record at the time. The Patriots have come a long way. At his introductory press conference as head coach in 1969, Clive Rush was shocked, literally, when he grabbed a microphone that wasn't grounded and received a jolt. With the team headed to the postseason in 1978, fans were stunned to learn that coach Chuck Fairbanks had accepted a job to be the University of Colorado coach. The team suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season but reinstated him for the playoffs and the Patriots played like a distracted team in a 34-14 loss to Houston. In 1985, the Patriots won three playoff games on the road for the team's first trip to the Super Bowl. Days after getting hammered by the Bears 46-10, six Patriots players were identified as drug users. The next time the Patriots played in the Super Bowl, there was more dysfunction. A power struggle between coach Bill Parcels and Kraft resulted in Parcells quitting shortly after a 35-21 loss to the Packers. He was replaced by Pete Carroll, who lasted three seasons. The Belichick era began in 2000 and coincided with the opening of Gillette Stadium two years later. In Belichick's first eight seasons, the team won the AFC East six times and three world championships with Tom Brady as quarterback.
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Wide receivers, defensive backs on Giants' bubble
tom.rock@newsday.comThey made their case. Will they make the team? That's the question more than several Giants players are asking themselves Saturday as the team prepares to trim its roster from 75 to 53. Some of the most intriguing decisions will come at wide receiver,...Tags: Amani Toomer, New York Giants, Football, Antonio Pierce, Washington Redskins
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NFL rookies from USC, UCLA find their way
Matthew Slater hasn't even played a real game for the New England Patriots, and already he's revealed his true colors. Blue, white and yellow.
The former UCLA player wears blue when he plays defensive back, white when he's a receiver, and yellow when he'...Tags: Jacksonville Jaguars, National Football League, Ricky Manning Jr., Pittsburgh Steelers, Boston Bruins
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A look at the NFC East
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFourth in an eight-part series as Times NFL writer Sam Farmer analyzes the league by division. Today, the NFC East: Story lines 1 Like many defending Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants have tried to portray themselves as underdogs. With the...Tags: Eli Manning, Donovan McNabb, Multi-Sport Events, National Football League, Michael Strahan
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Friday's prep previews
Today's games Denbigh vs. Woodside WHERE: Todd Stadium. WHEN: 7 p.m. FOUR DOWNS 1. Denbigh RB Jodey McNeill rushed for a career-best 113 yards in last year's 34-14 loss to Woodside. 2. Patriots first-year coach Marcellus Harris III played wide...Tags: William Campbell, Philadelphia Eagles, Marcellus Harris, Baseball, Football
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Freedom opens with big game vs. C.B. West
Of The Morning CallThe wait is over for Freedom. Tonight, the defending Eastern Conference Class 4A champion will try to extend its winning streak in season openers under coach Jason Roeder to four games. ''There is not a whole lot of room for error,'' said Roeder,...Tags: Philadelphia Eagles, Football, Memorial Stadium
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Eli has a Super Bowl ring, but he's not Peyton
AP Football WriterEven late last season, listing Eli Manning among the NFL's top quarterbacks would have been outlandish. Now after an improbable run to a Super Bowl in which he was named the MVP, the Giants quarterback is being listed just below Tom Brady and his...Tags: Plaxico Burress, Eli Manning, NBC, Steve Smith, Tom Moore
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Make sure to get a wide receiver by third round
adam.ronis@newsday.comThe elite wide receivers start flying off the board in the second round, even in non-PPR leagues. If you want one of the top receivers, be prepared to take them in the second round. Taking a receiver in the second and third round is a lot more common...Tags: Plaxico Burress, Steve Smith, PPR, National Football League, Terrell Owens
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Bucs recap
Sentinel Staff WriterThree things that went right 1. Rookie Dexter Jackson wasn't sniffing the wide receiver rotation and was starting to look like quite a reach as the team's second-round pick. The Bucs, though, were counting on him to make an impact on special teams, so...Tags: Super Bowl, New York Giants, Dexter Jackson, Football, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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League reinstates Cowboys' CB Jones
Wire ReportsNow that Adam "Pacman" Jones is really back in the NFL, he insists he will try to do everything he can to stay there. The cornerback-kick returner was fully reinstated Thursday from his 17-month NFL suspension, which followed an accumulation of arrests...Tags: Philadelphia Eagles, Jacksonville Jaguars, Police, Multi-Sport Events, National Football League
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Chiefs' first team handles St. Louis' reserves
AP Sports WriterSo what if it was all against the second team? The Kansas City Chiefs were badly in need of a confidence boost and that's exactly what they'll take out of Thursday night's 21-17 victory over a collection of St. Louis reserves. "We know it wasn't their...Tags: Larry Johnson, Trent Green, Tony Gonzalez, Football, David Macklin
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Some super thoughts after Giants-Patriots matchup
bob.glauber@newsday.comCounting down the days to when football games actually will count and actually can be watched, we deliver our thoughts from Giants- Patriots, in which both teams' starters were few and far between. The fans, too: It seems like forever ago that David...Tags: Plaxico Burress, Eli Manning, NBC, Steve Smith, Jeremy Shockey
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Giants Defeat Patriots, 19-14
No Tom Brady. No Eli Manning.
The Patriots and Giants took no chances with their quarterbacks in their final exhibition game Thursday night.
This time there was nothing at stake, except a few jobs before the final roster cutdown on Saturday, and David...Tags: Plaxico Burress, Danny Clark, Philadelphia Eagles, Eli Manning, National Football League
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