New England Patriots Quiz

The team played its first game in 1960. They were first known as the Boston Patriots.

It was so redundant. There was a patriot-inspired tri-corner hat featured on the helmets.

The team has four Super Bowl wins, tying them with the Colts and Lions.

The Giants beat the Patriots in both games. The Giants victory in 2007 stopped the Patriots from completing a perfect season.

Eleven years after the franchise started, its name was changed to the New England Patriots.

Some people were taken with the idea of the name Bay State Patriots, but the abbreviation (B.S. Patriots) meant that this moniker didn't stick.

Kraft paid $175 million for the team. Since then, he's turned the team into one of the most-recognized brand names in the sports world.

New England has won eight AFC Championships, all coming since 1985.

Before the NFL became a big business, venues were harder to find. The team bounced around four different venues in the early years.

The Patriots play in Gillette Stadium, which has a capacity of around 68,000.

With Belichick in charge (since 2000), the team has won an incredible four Super Bowls and earned a reputation for consistency.

To celebrate a score, they fire their rifles (with no bullets) in a loud crack that can be heard all over the stadium.

Pete Carroll led the team to two playoff appearances but was fired in 1999. Carroll has found great success as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

The Patriots rode the average play of quarterback Tony Eason to the Super Bowl. He played so badly that he was replaced by his backup, Steve Grogan.

They played the Bears, one of the most dominant teams of the era. The Patriots were thumped 46-10.

Since 1994, the Patriots have indeed sold out every game -- and that includes preseason games, too.

The New York Jets are the closet team geographically, and Patriots fans consider the Jets to be one of their biggest rivals. The Patriots also have fierce rivalries with the Colts and Ravens.

The team has made it to eight Super Bowls, tying with three other teams (Steelers, Broncos, Cowboys) for the most Super Bowl appearances.

Orthwein was a Missouri native who wanted to have his own team back home -- he was going to move the Patriots to St. Louis. Instead, he wound up selling the team to Robert Kraft two years later.

The Patriots were deemed guilty of inappropriately taping the defensive signals of another team. Head coach Bill Belichick was fined half a million dollars for the incident.

In 1993, the team gave up the helmets featuring a Patriot and moved to the current style, which incorporates a lot of silver and blue.

Brady was taken in the sixth round, and no one expected him to be better than average. Instead, he turned into one of the best players in NFL history.

1990 was a terrible year for the team, which compiled a record of 1-15.

In 2009, the Patriots destroyed the Titans by a score of 59-0.

The Patriots never pulled away during their first three Super Bowl victories -- they won each game by exactly three points. They won their fourth championship by four points.

Brady helped to usher in an incredible era of winning. He's never had a losing season.

In the widely publicized "Deflategate" scandal, Brady was accused of tampering with ball inflation during a 2015 game.

Brady didn't play much his first year. In his second season he took over for the injured Drew Bledsoe … and then led the Patriots to a Super Bowl victory.

It was a highly-anticipated matchup featuring the Patriots against the St. Louis Rams, led by a gunslinger-style quarterback named Kurt Warner.

The Patriots set the NFL record for consecutive wins with 21.