NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 2000s ALL-DECADE TEAM ANNOUNCED
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots Hall of Fame Nomination Committee, a 22-person panel made up of reporters, alumni and staff, gathered at The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon yesterday to nominate three finalists for this year’s Patriots Hall of Fame. The finalists will be announced [...]

(From Patriots Media Relations)
Special exhibit at The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon will close February 8

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (January 14, 2010) – Less than a month remains for football fans to see the most extensive collection of AFL memorabilia ever available on public display. “The AFL Turns 50” exhibit at The Hall at [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
It’s a year that in all honesty will never get the recognition it truly deserves. Since the NFL expanded to a 16 game schedule, only one team has managed to run the table in the regular season. Only one team in the NFL has won 18 straight games in one [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
In light of recent media conversation, it’s appropriate that this week’s look back is at the 2006 New England Patriots. There was much discussion on the airwaves about Dan Dierdorf’s comment on Sunday that this season may be Bill Belichick’s best coaching job. While the merits of that statement will [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
In my mind, the best Patriots team of all-time was the 2004 Patriots. They may not have been the most talented team, that distinction has yet to be made, but they are the best collection of players New England has every offered.
Tom Brady had developed into one of the best [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
While a Super Bowl XXXVI victory proved to loyal fans that the Pats were now a legitimate team, the feeling on a national level was that the Pats were the beneficiaries of circumstance. A team of destiny that had everything go right.

Well, 2003 changed all of that. In 2003 the [...]

By Mike Passanisi, Patriots Daily Guest Writer
It was really a different world. On December 11, 1988, at what was then called Sullivan Stadium, the Patriots played the then (as now) hapless Tampa Bay Bucs. A victory would put the team one win away from clinching their third playoff spot in four years. Did the stadium [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
I’ve sat down to write about the 2001 Patriots close to hundred times. No matter how I compose the words, nothing seems to do justice to what exactly this team means to the franchise and to the fan base. This is the ultimate Patriots team. This is the team we [...]

By Brenden Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
1998 might not be all that memorable for Pats fans, but it was in fact historic. For the first time in franchise history the Patriots reached the postseason three straight years. That year they posted a 9-7 record and finished fourth in a stacked AFC East. It was the teams [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
Many of the memories of the 1997 New England Patriots focus on what happened before the season even started. Bill Parcells had left to take over as head man of the New York Jets and in his place stepped Pete Carroll. Of course, Carroll would have a tumultuous tenure with [...]

By Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
It has often been said, give a good coach three years and he can turn around any team. In New England that was certainly true.
In 1996, in his third year on the sidelines, The Tuna led New England to its second ever Super Bowl appearance. Led by one of the [...]

by Brendon Rosenau, Patriots Daily Staff
If 1993 was the preface in New England’s rise to glory, then 1994 was the Chapter One. Bob Kraft was the new owner and the pieces were in place for a special happening in New England. In 1994 the Patriots returned to a place that seemed light years away a [...]