New England Patriots Milestones

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Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

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28 of the 30 cards you could be dealt, plus 2 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise founded as the Boston Patriots Billy Sullivan landed the AFL's eighth and final charter team
Played their first AFL season Lost the new league's first-ever game to the Broncos
Won the AFL Eastern Division Beat Buffalo in a divisional playoff, then got routed by San Diego for the title
Joined the NFL in the AFL merger Placed in the new AFC East with the Bills, Dolphins, and Jets
Became the New England Patriots Left Boston for brand-new Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough
Went 11-3 and returned to the playoffs The season ended in Oakland on a disputed roughing-the-passer call
Won their first AFC East crown Chuck Fairbanks was suspended for taking the Colorado job as the season closed
Won the Snowplow Game John Smith kicked the only points after Mark Henderson cleared him a spot
Drafted Irving Fryar first overall The Nebraska wingback went at the very top of the draft
Lost Super Bowl XX to the Bears 46-10 in the Superdome against the Shufflin' Crew
Drafted Drew Bledsoe first overall New coach Bill Parcells took the Washington State QB with the top pick
Robert Kraft bought the team A then-record $172 million purchase kept the franchise in New England
Lost Super Bowl XXXI to the Packers Desmond Howard's kickoff return broke it open in New Orleans
Hired head coach Bill Belichick Months later the same regime spent pick 199 on a Michigan quarterback
Won Super Bowl XXXVI Beat the Rams on Adam Vinatieri's 48-yarder as time expired
Won Super Bowl XXXVIII Another late Vinatieri kick edged Carolina 32-29
Won Super Bowl XXXIX Beat the Eagles in Jacksonville for a third title in four seasons
Finished the regular season 16-0 Brady threw 50 touchdown passes, 23 of them to Randy Moss
Lost Super Bowl XLII David Tyree's helmet catch helped the Giants end the perfect-season bid
Gronkowski set the tight end touchdown record 17 receiving scores in a single season
Lost Super Bowl XLVI The Giants did it to them again, this time in Indianapolis
Won Super Bowl XLIX Malcolm Butler's goal-line interception sealed it against Seattle
Brady served his Deflategate suspension He sat the first four games, then won it all that same season
Won Super Bowl LI Rallied from 28-3 down to beat Atlanta in overtime
Lost Super Bowl LII The Eagles ran the Philly Special on Nick Foles
Won Super Bowl LIII A 13-3 defensive grind against the Rams for ring number six
Tom Brady left for Tampa Bay Six rings in New England, then a free-agent goodbye in March
Parted ways with Bill Belichick The split came after a 4-13 season, ending a 24-year run