The 1971 New England Patriots season was the team's twelfth, and second in the National Football League.
 The 1971 season was the first that the team played as the New England Patriots, changing their name from the Boston Patriots, briefly to the Bay State Patriots before changing it again to the New England Patriots, in an effort to regionalize the franchise's equal distance from Boston and Providence.
Link is a NFL Cheerleader for the New England Patriots.
 She was born and raised in Terryville, Connecticut and attended Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts where she graduated with a degree in Communications.
 Link won the title of Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen in 2007 and went on to compete in Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant.
 Her competition talent was a Spanish-influenced tap dance.
 Shortly after returning from the national pageant, Link was a passenger in a head-on collision and suffered a broken spine.
 After emergency surgery and rehabilitation, Link began dancing again.
 In 2014, Link was chosen to join the New England Patriots Cheerleaders and cheered at Super Bowl XLIX where the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks.
 Link became captain of the Patriots Cheerleaders in 2016 and cheered at her second Super Bowl (Super Bowl LI), where the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons.
The New Jersey Generals was a franchise of the United States Football League (USFL) established in 1982 to begin play in the spring and summer of 1983.
 The team played three seasons from 1983–85, winning 31 regular-season games and losing 25 while going 0–2 in postseason competition.
 Home games were played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which was called The Meadowlands for Generals games.
Tajuan E. "Ty" Law (born February 10, 1974) is a former American football cornerback who played fifteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
 He played college football at the University of Michigan.
 He was drafted by the New England Patriots 23rd overall in the 1995 NFL Draft.
 Law is a two-time All-Pro, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, a Pro Bowl MVP, and has won three Super Bowls with the Patriots.
 His 53 career interceptions rank 22nd all-time in NFL history.
 He is also widely regarded as one of the best Patriots defensive backs of all time.
 Law was added to the New England Patriots Hall of Fame as the 20th member.
The New England Patriots Radio Network is a CBS Radio network which carries live game broadcasts of the New England Patriots.
 The network's flagship station is WBZ-FM/98.5, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
 Gil Santos, former WBZ sports reporter who was known as the "Voice of the New England Patriots" retired after the 2012 season (during the Patriots' December win over the Dolphins that season part of Santos' radio call was simulcast by CBS television in recognition of his time with the team) and was replaced by Bob Socci, who now does the play-by-play with former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak providing the color commentary and former Patriots linebacker Matt Chatham and WBZ-TV/WSBK-TV sports reporter Steve Burton providing the sideline reports.
 Marc Bertrand and "Boston Globe" sports columnist Chris Gasper host the pregame (when one of them is unavailable Greg Dickerson fills in), and the postgame show is hosted by Bertrand and former Patriot Steve DeOssie.
 Former hosts of the network's pre- and postgame show include Gary Tanguay, Andy Gresh, Bill Abbate, Mike Ruth, Tim Fox, and Pete Brock.
 Albert Breer is a regular guest analyst on the network's pre-game show.
Vincent Cole Brisby (born January 25, 1971 in Houston, Texas), is a former professional American football player who played for the New England Patriots and the New York Jets in the National Football League (NFL).
 He was selected by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 1993 NFL Draft.
 A 6'3", 193 lb.
 wide receiver from Northeast Louisiana University (now called University of Louisiana at Monroe), Brisby played eight NFL seasons from 1993 to 2000 for the Patriots and New York Jets.
 He was given the name Vincent "Ultimate" Brisby by ESPN analyst Chris Berman.
 Brisby's best game was arguably Week 5 in his second season.
 He compiled 6 catches for 117 yards and two touchdowns in the Patriots 17-16 comeback win over the Green Bay Packers.
This is a list of New England Patriots/Boston Patriots players who appeared on the active roster during the regular season.
 The history of New England Patriots began in 1960, with the formation of the American Football League.
 Then known as the Boston Patriots, the team's first draft pick was Ron Burton.
 They have had five members inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 22 players are members of the New England Patriots Hall of Fame, and seven of those have had their numbers retired.
Roderick Shoate (April 26, 1953 – October 4, 1999) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.
 He was a four-time All-Big 8 Conference Player and a three-time All-American at the University of Oklahoma.
 He played seven seasons in the NFL for the New England Patriots, and then in the United States Football League for the New Jersey Generals and Memphis Showboats.
The 2007 New England Patriots videotaping controversy, widely dubbed "Spygate", refers to an incident during the National Football League's (NFL) 2007 season when the New England Patriots were disciplined by the league for videotaping New York Jets' defensive coaches' signals from an unauthorized location during a September 9, 2007 game.
 Videotaping opposing coaches is not illegal in the NFL de jure, but there are designated areas allowed by the league to do such taping.
 Because the Patriots were instead videotaping the Jets' coaches from their own sideline during the game, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell deemed it to be in violation of league rules, stating that the act represented a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid long-standing rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field.
 After an investigation, the NFL fined Patriots head coach Bill Belichick $500,000 (the maximum allowed by the league and the largest fine ever imposed on a coach in the league's 87-year history) for his role in the incident, fined the Patriots $250,000, and docked the team their original first-round selection in the 2008 NFL Draft which would have been the 31st pick of the draft.
 The fine garnered significant media attention for being the "maximum amount" an individual could be fined.
The New England Patriots Cheerleaders are the official cheerleading squad of the NFL's New England Patriots.
 The Patriots Cheerleaders perform various dance stunts at Gillette Stadium.
 The squad was formed in 1977.
 The squad currently (as of the 2016 New England Patriots season) has 33 members.
 The squad also makes appearances off the field with Patriots mascot Pat Patriot.
 The group also has a "Junior Patriots Cheerleaders", with girls of ages 7–17 being allowed to join, with a fee of $425.00 per participant.
 The squad also releases a swimsuit calendar yearly.
 The Patriots Cheerleaders' auditions take place at Gillette Stadium.
 In 2008, the squad went to China to train Chinese dancers for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Question: Before playing for the New England Patriots, Roderick Shoate played in what town?
Answer: East Rutherford, New Jersey