The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference East division. Founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots, the team was a charter member of the American Football League before joining the NFL in 1970 through the AFL–NFL merger. The franchise has won the AFC East twice, in 1978 and 1985, and reached the Super Bowl in 1985, but lost to the Chicago Bears 46–10 in Super Bowl XX.
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The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference East division. Founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots, the team was a charter member of the American Football League before joining the NFL in 1970 through the AFL–NFL merger. The Patriots played their home games at various stadiums throughout Boston until the franchise moved to Foxborough in 1971. The Brady–Belichick era, regarded as one of sports’ greatest dynasties, would see the Patriots claim the records for most Super Bowl appearances, wins, and losses. By 2009, the franchise had increased in value by over USD 1billion to a third of the highest in the NFL, behind the St. Louis Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. Since then, the Patriots have sold out every out every preseason, regular season, playoff game and home game they have played. The team has also changed their primary colors from the traditional red, white and blue to blue and silver for the uniforms and moved the team to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is 22 miles southwest of downtown Boston. The franchise has won the AFC East twice, in 1978 and 1985, and reached the Super Bowl in 1985, but lost to the Chicago Bears 46–10 in Super Bowl XX. They have never been to the NFL’s Super Bowl, and have never won the Lombardi Award. The NFL’s highest-paid player is Tom Brady, who has earned more than $1.5 billion in salary since his first season in the league in 2001.
The New England team has won two Super Bowls and one Super Bowl championship. The most recent Super Bowl victory came in January 2013, when the Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-31. The Super Bowl win was the Patriots’ third in a row and their fourth in their last five attempts. The last time they won a Super Bowl title was in 2002, when they beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-17. They are the only team in NFL history to have won three consecutive division titles and two AFC East titles in the same season. They also have the only undefeated 16-game regular season and playoff season in league history. The only other team to do so was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won three straight in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1990s, they went 1–15. They changed ownership three times in the ensuing 14 years, being purchased from the Sullivan family first by Victor Kiam in 1988, who sold theteam to James Orthwein in 1992, and then Robert Kraft, who bought the team in 1994 for USD 175 million. In 1998, the NFL approved a deal to move the team from Foxboro to St Louis, where it would play until 2002. The following year, they moved to a new stadium in Foxboro, which would serve as their home for the next 30 years. As part of the move, they announced they would change their name from Boston Patriots to the Bay State Patriots, after the state of Massachusetts.
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