The Colts would lose to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and the 2004 divisional playoffs beginning a rivalry between the two team, and more importantly between Manning and Brady.

Following two consecutive playoff losses to the Patriots, the Colts began the 2005 season with a 13 – 0 record, including a regular season victory over the Patriots, the first in the Manning era.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

The rivalry between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots is one of the NFL's newest rivalries.

The Patriots owned the beginning of the series, defeating the Colts in six consecutive contests including the 2003 AFC Championship game and a 2004 AFC Divisional game.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.

In 1977 Baltimore tied for first for the third straight year ( in 1976 they tied with the now-New England Patriots ) with Miami, and this time advanced to the playoffs on even slimmer pretenses, with a conference record of 9 – 3 compared to Miami's 8 – 4, as they had split the season series.

The Patriots ' time in the AFL saw them struggle most years as they never had a regular home stadium.

During the 1970s, the Patriots had some success, earning a berth to the playoffs in 1976 — as a wild card-team — and in 1978 — as AFC East champions.

From 2003 through 2008, the New England Patriots had a " light " jersey ( their alternate, a bright metallic silver ) that isn't white in which the other team would wear their colored, or " dark " jerseys against them since the third jersey rule was implemented in the NFL in 2002.

The rivalry was relatively docile in its early years until 1966 when the Jets removed the Patriots, who had hopes of appearing in Super Bowl I, from playoff contention with a 38 – 28 defeat at Shea Stadium.

The Patriots also had an outstanding offensive line, led by Pro Bowl tackle Brian Holloway and future Hall of Fame guard John Hannah.

The Patriots had lost to Miami there 18 consecutive times, including a 30-27 loss in their 15th game of the season.

Patriots coach Raymond Berry then replaced Eason with Steve Grogan, who had spent the previous week hoping he would have the opportunity to step on to NFL's biggest stage.

After the Patriots received the second half opening kickoff, they managed to get one first down, but then had to punt after Grogan was sacked twice.

But the Patriots defense still had no ability to stop Chicago's offense.

One irony in the Bears victory was that Payton had a relatively poor performance running the ball and never scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX, his first and only Super Bowl appearance during his Hall of Fame career ( Many people including Mike Ditka have claimed that the reason for this due to the fact that the Patriots defensive scheme was centered around stopping Walter Payton ).

In addition, the Redskins set new NFL records with 541 points ( since broken by the 1998 Minnesota Vikings and 2007 New England Patriots ), a givaway / takaway ratio of + 43, and had the top rated rush – defense.

The Patriots ' chances for a Super Bowl appearance seemed bleak shortly after the season had begun.

Behind them, the Patriots had 3 outstanding linebackers: Mike Vrabel ( 2 interceptions, 3 sacks ), Willie McGinest ( 5 sacks ), and Tedy Bruschi ( 2 interceptions ).

The Patriots had no timeouts left for their ensuing drive, which led Fox color commentator John Madden to suggest that the Patriots should run out the clock and attempt to win in overtime.

The following year's " Lindy's Pro Football Annual " reported had fan voting not been a contribution in the game, Patriots ' cornerback Ty Law would have won the award.

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

Only a few years later, the French Revolution began, which embraced many of the political ideas that the Patriots had espoused in their own revolt.

Motley did not get to deal explicitly with the Batavian Republic, but the way his collaborator William Elliot Griffis dismissed the Patriots speaks for itself :"... whether under the name of the ' Batavian Republic ', the Kingdom of Holland, or the provinces of the French empire, the French occupation was virtually a French conquest that had little permanent influence on Dutch history or character.

The " Patriots " name refers to the Middlebrook encampment where the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777.

The population of Newport had divided loyalties and many pro independence " Patriots " left town while loyalist " Tories " remained.

Known as the " Isle of 8 Flags ", it has had the flags of the following nations flown over it since 1562: France, Spain, Great Britain, Spain ( again ), the Patriots of Amelia Island, the Green Cross of Florida, Mexico, the Confederate States of America, and the United States.

In 2008, Super Bowl XLII was played there when the Giants faced the Patriots.

In the AFC championship, the Patriots faced the Indianapolis Colts.

Once again the Patriots were faced with third down and goal, but this time they scored with Brady's 1-yard pass to Vrabel, who had lined up in an eligible tight end position.

The Patriots have also defeated each regular season MVP they have faced in that year's playoffs ( Kurt Warner in Super Bowl XXXVI, Peyton Manning and Steve McNair after the 2003 season, Manning in 2004, LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006 ).

ABC News did a story on the history of such " jinxes ", comparing the Patriots situation with that faced, not only by the Dallas Cowboys and Jessica Simpson, but with women throughout history.

In what might be viewed as the 2007 Ravens ' finest moment they faced the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football.

* Super Bowl I – As previously mentioned, the first ever Super Bowl is the only Super Bowl to have been broadcast in the United States by two television networks simultaneously ( no other NFL game was subsequently carried nationally on more than one network until December 29, 2007, when the New England Patriots faced the New York Giants on NBC, CBS, and the NFL Network ).

After 43 years and almost 700 games, a now-harsher-voiced but still sharp 76-year-old Van Miller called his final broadcast for the Bills against the New England Patriots ( the same franchise Buffalo had faced for Miller's first broadcast in 1960 ).

It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.

The facilities are also open as part of the local Patriots ' Day holiday observance each April.

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.

The Buffalo All-Americans had success during its first couple of APFA seasons, posting a 9-1-1 regular season record in 1920 where they became the first professional NFL team to win by margins of 20 or more points in each of its first four games, an asterisked record which was not tied until the 2007 New England Patriots ' offense duplicated the feat against other ( all ) professional and league teams on October 1, 2007 ; the asterisked record is because in the early NFL, the All-Americans played several non-league opponents in their first four wins in 1920.

For each show, O ' Reilly, with the assistance of his staff, will produce a script with the words for the " Talking Points Memo " and " Pinheads and Patriots " segments, and points of discussion and questions for the guests that will appear on the program.

WHDH ultimately signed with NBC ( if WHDH had joined Fox, they would have only been allowed to carry up to two New England Patriots football games each year, as they are part of the AFC, while Fox has rights to the NFC ; WHDH's affiliation with NBC allowed them to carry most Patriots games from 1995 – 97 ).

He made an impact in the Patriots ' secondary as a rookie, playing in every game and starting the final ten games of the season in addition to each of the team's three playoff games.

By spring 1773, Patriots decided to follow the Massachusetts system and began to set up their own committees in each colony.

Asked to identify the members of the Patriots ' secondary, Mitchell claimed he did not know them by name, only by number, and then deliberately stated each of their numbers incorrectly.

Vrabel finished with twelve career receptions, all for 1-or 2-yard touchdowns ( one in 2002, two in 2004, three in 2005, and two in 2007 in the regular season, and one each in Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX ) with the Patriots and one in 2009 and 2010 with the Chiefs ( thrown by former Patriot Matt Cassel ).

We are a band of Patriots who each leave home and friend,

The Patriots also held possession of the ball for 37: 43, including 21: 26 in the second half and recording three long scoring drives that each took over 7 minutes off the clock.

Crennel left the Giants after the 1992 season and worked as the defensive line coach for the New England Patriots for four seasons ( 1993 – 1996 ) and for the New York Jets for three seasons ( 1997 – 1999 ) during the time that Parcells was the head coach in each franchise.

The Patriots won the Super Bowl at the end of each of these seasons.

Even though the Patriots and the Red Sox both play in the Boston area, each team has many fans in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Merriman, nicknamed " Lights Out ", performed a dance to celebrate each of his 17 sacks in 2006 – 2009 After the Chargers were eliminated in the playoffs by the New England Patriots that season, members of the Patriots began performing Merriman's " Lights Out " dance on the field in celebration.

The " Midnight Ride " of Paul Revere crossed over Winter Hill, and is re-enacted each year as part of the Patriots ' Day festivities in the Boston area.

Givens caught nine passes and one touchdown his rookie year for the New England Patriots in 2002, and improved in each of the next two seasons.

Patriots in these communities were in contact with each other, and those of Cumberland and Maugerville were active in trying to interest nearby natives ( Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi ' kmaq ) in their cause.

He had six or more receptions in each of the Patriots ' first 11 games, breaking Jimmy Smith's mark of eight games at the start of the Jacksonville Jaguars ' 2001 season.