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The stadium opened in August 1971 as Schaefer Stadium, [2] primarily as the home venue for the renamed New England Patriots of the National Football League. [1] The team was known as the Boston Patriots for its first eleven seasons 1960–70, [5] and had played in various stadiums in the Boston area.
The Patriots Hall of Fame outside of Gillette Stadium, pictured in 2010. Opened in September 2008, the Patriots Hall of Fame presented by RTX [3] is a museum that includes the New England Patriots Hall of Fame and displays the history of the New England Patriots – including historical wins and losses, memorabilia, the game-worn uniforms and equipment of famous players such as Tom Brady, Rob ...
The Patriots play home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Boston. The franchise is owned by Robert Kraft , who purchased the team in 1994. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] As of 2024, the Patriots are the sixth-most valuable sports team in the world [ 15 ] and have sold out every home game since 1994.
Foxborough is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, it is about 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Boston.The population was 18,618 at the 2020 census.
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States. The stadium is 22 miles (35 km) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] southwest of downtown Boston, Massachusetts and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Providence, Rhode Island .
Ultimately, Fenway replacement plans were cancelled, the New England Patriots constructed a replacement stadium right next to Foxboro Stadium, and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was built near the waterfront. Many theories abound as to why the plan failed, but many factors have been deemed as being responsible.
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium, is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It has been the Massachusetts Minutemen football team's home stadium since 1965, with the exception of 2012 and 2013, when the team played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough .
The 2004 Program for Mass Transportation listed an extension to Route 128 with intermediate stops at Mount Hope, Hyde Park, and Readville at a cost of $342.8 million. The extension was listed as low priority due to environmental issue with crossing the wetlands south of Readville, and because the corridor already had commuter rail service.