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SHOW DESCRIPTION:

These days, the New England Patriots are often thought of as one of the elite teams in the NFL. However, that hasn’t always been the case, especially during the team’s infancy, when they were a charter member of the upstart AFL and chaos and confusion often reigned. The Patriots of the 60s and early 70s were a transient team and played its home games in no less than 5 different stadiums. The Pats also cycled thru its head coaches quite frequently back then and one coach in particular is often remembered as the one who best epitomized the team’s failings during this time.

In this 4-part series, we will take a look at the team’s humble beginnings in Boston in 1960 to their first years in Foxboro. We will also do a deep dive into the timeline between 1969 – 1972 to relive some of the most shocking and bizarre events to ever impact a professional sports franchise. The Patriots: From Boston to Foxboro.

HOST - JOE SANTOS:

Joe Santos grew up in Massachusetts and is an avid football fan, with a special fondness for the NFL in the early 70s. This Week in Pro Football and NFL Game of the Week were must-see TV back in the day. And living in Massachusetts meant you saw all of the NY Giants games on tv, both home and away, as they were the de facto home team for the NFC. Due to the blackout rules at the time, only the Patriots away games were shown. Being a huge sports history fan, Joe will continue to tell the unusual stories from an era that's considered to be the golden age of pro football.

It’s time for… Lombardi Memories! A show that takes you back in time, into January or February, to the greatest one-day spectacle in all of sports. We have finished reviewing the first 50 Super Bowls, so now I’m going to expound upon one big moment in Super Bowl history and dissect it. Perhaps you’ll learn something you didn’t from my original podcast on said Super Bowl. So, today we are going to talk about the second quarter of Super Bowl XXII between the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos.

It’s time for… Lombardi Memories! A show that takes you back in time, into January or February, to the greatest one-day spectacle in all of sports. We’re going to do something a little different. I’m going to take a moment in Super Bowl history and expound on it. I’m going to go through a drive or quarter or something that I can break up into little pieces and we can examine it closely.