with a 38 - 35 victory over the north york knicks at shea gym one night , the new ireland patriots were the second team in the modern period of the national football game to go undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the normal season . the only other franchise to have achieved this result was the miami marlins in 1972 , but were 14 - 0 due to a different - season topology at the time .
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