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Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 16

July 22, 2021

We’re down to single digits in our 25 day celebration after today, so before we finish up with a few more key pieces to the puzzle and a look back at the postseason wins, there’s one major aspect of the season we haven’t really talked much about yet. Good ole Foxboro Stadium. Most people my age don’t remember the old place with the metal benches, gross bathrooms, mud pits in…

Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 15

July 21, 2021

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We’ve had mostly positive things to reminisce about during our 25 day project, but today we take a look at a 12-6 loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys on December 15, 1996. The score wasn’t pretty, but it was a very important day confidence wise for the young defense and coordinator Al Groh. At the time, the Patriots’ offense was humming while Dallas entered as the NFL’s…

Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 14

July 20, 2021

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Two weeks to go in our look back at the 1996 AFC championship season for the Patriots. Before we take a look at a dominant win over the Jets late in the season, a quick reminder that if you missed our live show on Monday night with Drew Bledsoe and Todd Rucci, do yourself a favor and find an hour to listen to it. Both of them were incredibly generous…

Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 13

July 19, 2021

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Lucky No. 13. First and foremost, a reminder that we are very lucky to have both Todd Rucci and Drew Bledsoe jointing us on the New England Football Show tonight at 8 to reminisce about that season and talk about what they’re up to now. Getting back to our trip down memory lane, we take a look back at the season that the original 87, Ben Coates had in 1996….

Patriots: Days 3 and 4: 25 days of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title

July 12, 2021

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This is our third and fourth installment of the 25-day project and today we’ll be taking a look at one of the most important stretches during the season from October 20th through November 10th in two sections. During that time, the Pats rattled off four straight wins to go from 3-3 to 7-3. Two of the victories were critically important against Buffalo and Miami which was no easy task back…