In addition to Major League Baseball, Fenway Park has been the site of many other sporting and cultural events, including professional football games for the Boston Redskins and the Boston Patriots, concerts, soccer and hockey games, political and religious campaigns.

One plan even involved building a " Sports Megaplex " in South Boston, where a new Fenway would be located next to a new stadium for the New England Patriots.

Baltimore's post NFL-AFL merger passage to the AFC saw them thrust into a new environment with little in common with its fellow divisional teams, the Jets, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and Boston Patriots.

The New England Patriots, commonly called the " Pats ," are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium.

The team changed its name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating to Foxborough in 1971, although Foxborough is a suburb of Boston, away.

The most popular choice — and the one that Sullivan selected — was " Boston Patriots ".

As a result of the move, they announced they would change their name from the Boston Patriots to the Bay State Patriots.

With players such as Alworth, Paul Lowe, Keith Lincoln and John Hadl, the high-scoring Chargers won divisional crowns five of the league ’ s first six seasons and the AFL title in 1963 with a 51 – 10 victory over the Boston Patriots.

Currently, Belichick is head coach of the New England Patriots, while Coughlin went from Boston College to be the first-ever head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and is currently the head coach of the Giants.

The Mahican, who as Algonquians were not part of the Iroquois Confederacy, sided with the Patriots, serving at the Siege of Boston, and the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth.

* Gil Santos, longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and morning sports reporter for WBZ radio in Boston

He was drafted by the American Football League's Houston Oilers, then traded to the Boston Patriots in 1961.

Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns ( Drafted ), Boston Patriots, L. A Rams, San Francisco 49ers.

* Vito " Babe " Parilli, All Star quarterback of the Boston Patriots ' " Team of the 1960s "

* Jim Crawford, American Football player for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League

In 1963 they captured the only league championship the club ever won by outscoring the Boston Patriots, 51 – 10, in the American Football League championship game in Balboa Stadium.

One of the most popular traditions is the celebration of Marathon Monday, which occurs on Patriots Day each spring, and is highlighted by the Boston Marathon.

* AFL MVP-Gino Cappelletti, WR Boston Patriots

* AFL Eastern Division Playoff – Boston Patriots win 26 – 8 over the Buffalo Bills

* AFL Championship – San Diego Chargers win 51 – 10 over the Boston Patriots on January 5, 1964

The team started out in 1983 as the Boston Breakers, owned by Boston businessman George Matthews and former New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Vataha.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

In addition to the regular schedule, advertisements were run for maximum impact in special editions of the New York Times, Boston Herald, American Banker, Electronic News and, for local promotion, the Providence Sunday Journal.

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

In the early hours of September 11, they boarded a commuter flight back to Boston to connect to American Airlines Flight 11.

The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.

Other historical events that form a part of American folklore include: the Salem witch trials, the Boston Massacre, the Siege of Yorktown, California Gold Rush, Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and The Wreck Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The first World Series was won by Boston of the American League.

In 1847 the Boston Herald absorbed the Boston American Eagle and the Boston Daily Times.

The Boston Evening Traveler was the successor to the weekly American Traveler and the semi-weekly Boston Traveler.

In 1920 the Advertiser was merged with The Boston Record, initially the combined newspaper was called the Boston Advertiser however when the combined newspaper became an illustrated tabloid in 1921 it was renamed The Boston American.

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

The Sunday Advertiser and Record American would ultimately be merged in 1972 into The Boston Herald Traveler a line of newspapers that stretched back to the old Boston Herald.

The two papers were merged to become an all-day paper called the Boston Herald Traveler and Record American in the morning and Record-American and Boston Herald Traveler in the afternoon.

The afternoon edition was soon dropped and the unwieldy name shortened to Boston Herald American, with the Sunday edition called the Sunday Herald Advertiser.

The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

The Boston Red Sox are owned by Fenway Sports Group, who also own Liverpool Football Club of the Premier League in England.

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

The town's second club is Boston Town nicknamed The Poachers, who play in the United Counties Football League.

* Boston Braves ( NFL ), the National Football League team now known as the Washington Redskins

Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League.

The Boston Yanks were a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts that played from 1944 to 1948.

* Boston Bulldogs ( AFL ), a professional American football team that was a member of the first American Football League in 1926

) Boston College is one of only thirteen universities in the country offering NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( Formerly, I-A ) football, Division I men's and women's basketball, and Division I hockey.

* Oneida Football Club, historical Boston football club ( founded in 1862 )

They were part of the newly formed American Football League and finished the 1936 regular season in second place with a 5 – 2 – 2 record, trailing only the 8 – 3 record of league champion Boston Shamrocks.

* Boston Shamrocks ( AFL ) ( 1936-7 ), competed in the short-lived American Football League

* In 1983, the Boston Breakers of the United States Football League played their home games here.

At the end of 1977 / 78 when Southport was relegated from the English Football League Fourth Division, Bangor City, Boston United and Wigan Athletic were considered for promotion instead.

He played at the University of Minnesota, and was a star in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots.

Burton was the Boston Patriots ' first-ever American Football League draft choice in 1960.

In the 1963 American Football League Championship game, he accounted for a then NFL regular and postseason record ( now just a postseason record ) of 329 yards of yards from scrimmage as the Chargers defeated the Boston Patriots 51-10.