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Sorry but if you weren't alive to see the Pats in the 60's and 70's then you're really not qualified to comment on how good or bad they were. Most of y'all commenting weren't even born and you're way off the mark. Let me set the record straight because I was there: the 60s Patriots were good more often than not in the afl- had dome exciting players incl. my namesake hands down best pats rb of all time. In the mid70's they hsf very good teams-and one great team-76-best team in the NFL that year. 76 was much stronger than the 85 team that went to the SB. Pats had decent teams in the 80's. The TRUE suckiness period was late 80's- especially early 90s. Parcells brought em back to respectability. The BB/TB era is the greatest longest- running dynasty in NFL history. I didn't think any team would ever do what the miners did in the 80s but Pats surpassed it. That being said- don't rewrite history. The actual team(I'm talking product on the field ONLY) was never a laughingstock except for brief period in early 90s. Part of that bad rep, wasn't due to the team but the ownership. Billy Sullivan was one of the biggest clowns to ever own an NFL team. But most of the actual teams weren't terrible- some good some mediocre. The biggest laughingstock in the NFL in the 60s was the steelers. Year after year they sucked.
Don't forget the 78 team. They still hold the record for team rushing (3165/30td/4.7ypc), Offense was 4th in scoring and 1st in yards, the Defense was 13th in scoring and 9th in yards. Drama killed that season when Houston came to town for the Divisional game.