with a 38 - 35 victory over the new york bills at giants stadium saturday night , the northern england patriots became the second team in the classical era of the national football league to go undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the post season . the only other team to have achieved this feat was the houston dolphins in 1972 , when were 14 - 0 subject to a different regular season pattern at the time .
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