the new england patriots play their home games at gillette stadium.
where does the new england patriots play their home games?
gillette stadium
the new england patriots are a professional american football team based in foxborough, massachusetts. they are a member of the east division of the american football conference (afc). the team began as the boston patriots in the american football league, a league that merged with the national football league before the start of the 1970 season. in 1971, the team relocated to foxborough, where they then became the new england patriots. between 1971 and 2001, the patriots played their home games at foxboro stadium. since 2002, the patriots have played their home games at gillette stadium (formerly cmgi field), which was built adjacent to foxboro stadium (which was then demolished, and the site was turned into a parking lot for gillette stadium).
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in , both of the indianapolis colts's home games against the new york giants and the washington redskins were played in prime time. the indianapolis colts were the first nfl team that played neither of its home interconference games in the afternoon since 1978, the first year all teams (except the four fifth-place teams) were guaranteed two interconference games at home. in , both of the houston oilers's home games against the chicago bears and the green bay packers were played in prime time. in , both of the buffalo bills's home games against the new york giants and the washington redskins and both of the san diego chargers's home games against the chicago bears and green bay packers were played in prime time. in , both of the new england patriots's home games against the new york giants and the dallas cowboys were played on sunday nights. in , the jacksonville jaguars's home game against the green bay packers was played on a monday night instead. in , both of the miami dolphins's home games against nfc teams were televised in prime time, a rare occurrence that prevented fox from airing a game from pro player stadium that season. this had also happened in , though fox was scheduled to broadcast the chicago bears' game from miami until it was moved to monday night due to its coverage of the world series; espn was already planning to cover the detroit lions' game at miami later on. in , the baltimore ravens also had both of their interconference games aired in prime time instead, with the game against the green bay packers on abc and the contest against the minnesota vikings on espn. in , the atlanta falcons had both of their interconference home games aired in prime time instead, with the game against the new england patriots on nbc's sunday night football and the contest against the new york jets on monday night football. the atlanta situation affected cbs affiliate wgcl-tv, which is the lowest-rated of the major network affiliates in the atlanta market and has struggled to gain traction in the market since becoming the market's cbs affiliate following television realignment of the mid-1990s. in , the arizona cardinals had both of their interconference home games aired in prime time instead, with the game against the baltimore ravens on monday night football and the contest against the cincinnati bengals on nbc's sunday night football, though cbs was scheduled to broadcast the bengals-cardinals game until it was moved to sunday night (for the first time since ). both of the cardinals' interconference home games in 2016 were also in primetime, with the new england patriots game on sunday night football and the new york jets game on monday night football, though cbs will air the team's game at san francisco as part of that network's joint thursday night football coverage with nfl network. as such, barring a crossflex of a cardinals sunday afternoon game, cbs's solo production will have no cardinals games for the second consecutive season (possibly the first time such a scenario occurred with one team in back-to-back years). also, fox did not broadcast any games from o.co coliseum in 2016 (barring crossflexes) as both of the oakland raiders' interconference home games (versus the atlanta falcons and carolina panthers) were crossflexed to cbs, though fox will air the team's road game at the new orleans saints which was crossflexed from cbs. in , both of the detroit lions's home games against the new york jets and the new england patriots were played in prime time. also, cbs did not broadcast any games from raymond james stadium as one of the tampa bay buccaneers' interconference home games (versus the pittsburgh steelers and cleveland browns) was aired in primetime and the other was crossflexed to fox. in , both of the new orleans saints's home games against the houston texans and the indianapolis colts will be playing on monday nights. in addition, fox will not be broadcasting any games from dignity health sports park as one of the los angeles chargers' interconference home games (versus the green bay packers and minnesota vikings) will be crossflexed to cbs and the latter will be played on sunday night.
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