with a 38 - 35 victory over the new york giants at giants stadium saturday afternoon , the new hampshire patriots was the second team in the modern era of the international football league to are undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the regular season . the only other franchise to have achieved this record was the miami dolphins in 1972 , who were 14 - 0 according to a different regular season structure at the period .
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