New England Patriots Events

1986 Jan 26 Super Bowl XX - Bears 46, Patriots 10
Super Bowl XX was an American football game played on January 26, 1986 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion following...
1997 Jan 26 Super Bowl XXXI Packers 35 Patriots 21
The Packers dominated the Patriots on both sides of the ball, outgaining New England 323 yards to 257 and intercepting quarterback Drew Bledsoe four times. Packers defensive lineman Reggi...
2002 Feb 2 Super Bowl XXXVI Patriots Beat Rams 20-17
Adam Vinatieri's 48-yard field goal as time expired gave the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl title. The Rams outgained the Patriots 427-267 in total yards, but the Patriots...
2003 Sep 7 Buffalo Bills defeat New England Patriots, 31-0
2003 Sep 14 New England Patriots defeat Philadelphia Eagles, 31-10
The list of things the Patriots needed to accomplish in their second game was long. The most important, however, were 1) Getting their house in order, and 2) Winning, to eliminate the tid...
2003 Sep 21 New England Patriots defeat New York Jets, 23-16
The effects of mounting injuries may take their toll down the road, but for the second straight week, the New England Patriots looked at the casts, wraps, and braces square in the eye and...
2003 Sep 28 Washington Redskins defeat New England Patriots, 20-17
Tom Brady sat in his chair sideways, staring straight into his locker. He may have been replaying yesterday's final Patriots series in his head. It was a drive that ended on a sour note a...
2003 Oct 5 New England Patriots defeat Tennessee Titans, 38-30
While the Red Sox were "cowboying up" at Fenway Park yesterday, the Patriots were "knuckling up" at Gillette Stadium. That was their unofficial rallying cry last week. That is to say New ...
2003 Oct 12 New England Patriots defeat New York Giants, 17-6
This was more like it. Those shootouts, like the one they survived with Tennessee last week, are OK once in a while, but that isn't Patriots football. Too, you know, pretty. Their b...
2003 Oct 19 New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins, 19-13
Sooner or later, the hex, the curse, or whatever it was had to end. The streak had to end. And, unfortunately, a quality football game had to end. What a way to end them all. ...
2003 Oct 26 New England Patriots defeat Cleveland Browns, 9-3
Halfway through the regular season, the time had come for the bruised and battered Patriots to finally catch a break. They got it in the form of a Cleveland team whose preferred quarte...
2003 Nov 3 New England Patriots defeat Denver Broncos, 30-26
Patriots coach Bill Belichick always talks about how turnovers and penalties decide games. And he's right. Turnovers and penalties do decide games. Most games. Not last night's game. ...
2003 Nov 16 New England Patriots defeat Dallas Cowboys, 12-0
Before the game, no matter how hard Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells fought to escape the spotlight, it really was all about them. Do the two of you speak? Will you speak? How do you feel...
2003 Nov 23 New England Patriots defeat Houston Texans, 23-20
There are at least 1,000 ways to win a football game, and the New England Patriots obviously intend on sampling every one. Yesterday they showed 70,719 at Reliant Stadium that you can ...
2003 Nov 30 New England Patriots defeat Indianapolis Colts, 38-34
Down the Atlantic Coast in Charlotte, N.C., they like to call their Carolina Panthers the "Cardiac Cats." Yeah. The Panthers have been known to pull out a close win here and there this ye...
2003 Dec 7 New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins, 12-0
Success won't change the Patriots. Better yet, success in December won't change the Patriots. "We've got big plans," said rookie safety Eugene Wilson. "[This is] the first step." Ne...
2003 Dec 14 New England Patriots defeat Jacksonville Jaguars, 27-13
Now it's all up to the Jets and Bills to rescue the other AFC contenders' Super Bowl chances. The Chiefs, Colts, Titans, Broncos, Bengals, Ravens, and Dolphins all are depending on you, N...
2003 Dec 20 New England Patriots defeat New York Jets, 21-16
Based on the history of this series, if there was a game that posed the biggest threat to the Patriots' winning streak, "Jets at the Meadowlands" was the one. The threat was real, but ...
2003 Dec 27 New England Patriots defeat Buffalo Bills, 31-0
Home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Revenge. Offensive and defensive domination. An 8-0 record at Gillette Stadium. A 14-2 regular-season record. And, oh yeah, a bye week to ...
2004 Jan 10 New England Patriots defeat Tennessee Titans, 17-14
FOXBOROUGH -- When it was over, when the Tennessee Titans had come so close, once again, their quarterback and team conscience, Steve McNair, had a simple message for his teammates. "I...
2004 Jan 18 New England Patriots defeat Indianapolis Colts, 24-14
FOXBOROUGH -- There's your answer, exclamation point included. Oh, yes. The question. All week we wondered which would give in a clash between one of the more potent offenses in recent...
2004 Feb 1 New England Patriots defeat Carolina Panthers, 32-29
HOUSTON -- A nickname? The Carolina Panthers defensive line needs practice. New England's offensive line of Matt Light, Russ Hochstein, Dan Koppen, Joe Andruzzi, and Tom Ashworth got t...
2004 Feb 1 Patriots Outduel Panthers 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII
Unforgettable Games Super Bowl XXXVIII: New England Patriots Vs. Carolina Panthers Before the game In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, everyone was going on and on about ...
2004 Sep 9 New England Patriots defeat Indianapolis Colts, 27-24
They were like two great heavyweights slugging away, neither willing to take a backward step or bend to the other's demands. They were Ali and Frazier, pounding away on the inside, bla...
2004 Sep 19 New England Patriots defeat Arizona Cardinals, 23-12
It was the kind of game Corey Dillon was brought to New England to win. Everything was just a little off kilter yesterday in the steam heat at Sun Devil Stadium. High emotion was in th...
2004 Oct 3 New England Patriots defeat Buffalo Bills, 31-17
Tom Brady walked out of the Patriots locker room and walked to the podium in the interview room at Ralph Wilson Stadium smiling, and why not? Though he's not supposed to think about it, t...
2004 Oct 10 New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins, 24-10
They spent the better part of the week toiling in virtual anonymity as bit players on the Patriots roster. But they shared a common bond as supporting cast members who also shared the com...
2004 Oct 17 New England Patriots defeat Seattle Seahawks, 30-20
For a long time yesterday the men and women huddled four rows deep around Bethel Johnson's locker knew what Terreal Bierria felt like 45 minutes earlier. Bethel Johnson was behind them. ...
2004 Oct 24 New England Patriots defeat New York Jets, 13-7
Fullbacks are dropping like flies. The Patriots have lost the top two fullbacks on their depth chart, Patrick Pass, who was out of yesterday's game with a thigh injury, and Dan Klecko,...
2004 Oct 31 Pittsburgh Steelers defeat New England Patriots, 34-20
The Patriots suffered a severe blow yesterday when All-Pro cornerback Ty Law left with an undisclosed left foot injury on the third series of the game and never returned. The Patriots ...
2004 Nov 7 New England Patriots defeat St. Louis Rams, 40-22
David Givens and Corey Dillon are growing used to the number 100. For the third straight week, Givens produced a 100-yard receiving day, and for the fourth time this season Dillon rush...
2004 Nov 14 New England Patriots defeat Buffalo Bills, 29-6
The Wise Guys said this one might be a challenge, but this time the Wise Guys were wrong. What the sellout crowd at Gillette Stadium and the ESPN audience saw last night was a Big Brother...
2004 Nov 22 New England Patriots defeat Kansas City Chiefs, 27-19
It took Deion Branch nine weeks to get his "breath" back but when he did he left the Kansas City Chiefs breathless. According to the Patriots, their explosive wide receiver had the win...
2004 Nov 28 New England Patriots defeat Baltimore Ravens, 24-3
By the end of a 24-3 Patriots win over the Baltimore Ravens yesterday, the Patriots didn't know whether to sack Kyle Boller or to hug him. If ever the mercy rule should have applied in...
2004 Dec 5 New England Patriots defeat Cleveland Browns, 42-15
As he stood on the sideline waiting for the opening kickoff yesterday, Terry Robiskie was excited, but also realistic. The interim coach of the Cleveland Browns knew the score even before...
2004 Dec 12 New England Patriots defeat Cincinnati Bengals, 35-28
He is a rumor without confirmation. That's how the Patriots chose to view offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, who officially will be named the coach at Notre Dame in a news conference tod...
2004 Dec 20 Miami Dolphins defeat New England Patriots, 29-28
Oops. OK, so the big game Jan. 23 will be in Pittsburgh, after all. I mean, that's all we really care about, isn't it? Of course, if the Patriots don't play better than this against...
2004 Dec 26 New England Patriots defeat New York Giants, 23-7
Chad Pennington learned an important lesson yesterday in the wind and the cold at Giants Stadium. He learned that if you're going to give the Gettysburg Address, don't go out six days lat...
2005 Jan 2 New England Patriots defeat San Francisco 49ers, 21-7
Maybe the Patriots did try to approach yesterday's 21-7 win over San Francisco like any other game. But there was one interesting experiment -- Bethel Johnson returning punts. Johnson ...
2005 Jan 16 New England Patriots defeat Indianapolis Colts, 20-3
They punched them in the mouth and when they got up they punched them in the mouth again until they didn't want to get hit any more. That's how the New England Patriots pulled off arguabl...
2005 Jan 23 New England Patriots defeat Pittsburgh Steelers, 41-27
They always answered back. Every time they were challenged, which was several more times than seemed likely early in the game, the New England Patriots answered back. They were like a ...
2005 Feb 6 New England Patriots defeat Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21
It's official. Tom Brady follows Joe Montana into the football Hall of Fame. The University of Belichick takes its rightful place alongside Harvard and MIT. And the New England Patriot...
2005 Feb 6 Patriots Defeat Eagles For Third Super Bowl Victory In Four Years
On the first drive of the game, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb fumbled while being sacked by New England linebacker Willie McGinest, and the Patriots recovered the ball at Philadelphia...
2005 Sep 8 New England Patriots defeat Oakland Raiders, 30-20
The New England Patriots claim they are not out to make history, just first downs. They maintain they focus more on getting their clutches on opposing quarterbacks than on another Lomb...
2005 Sep 18 Carolina Panthers defeat New England Patriots, 27-17
After giving up a blocked extra point and blocked punt last week in the season opener against Oakland, the Patriots looked for better play from their special teams. Well, at least ther...
2005 Sep 25 New England Patriots defeat Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-20
Got one of those ''Best of Larry Bird" or ''Best of Bobby Orr" tapes at home? When it's all over, the last ring has been won, and Canton is calling -- when Tom Brady's greatest hits album...
2005 Oct 2 San Diego Chargers defeat New England Patriots, 41-17
This is the 20th year Marty Schottenheimer has been a head coach in the National Football League, so he understands that, regardless of what other propaganda you may hear, there are limit...
2005 Oct 9 New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 31-28
Many pieces of what should make the Patriots one of the best teams in the NFL were invisible a week ago. In fact, throughout this season, the Patriots have disappeared and been bad as ...
2005 Oct 16 Denver Broncos defeat New England Patriots, 28-20
You can spin this any way you like. You can focus on the fact that the New England Patriots didn't fold and had enough gumption to wipe the premature grin off the mugs of a Broncos team t...
2005 Oct 30 New England Patriots defeat Buffalo Bills, 21-16
A certain celebration was required. After all, how many times does a star player return to a championship football team after suffering a stroke? A full house, with the much beloved...