with a 38 - 35 victory over the new ny bears at titans cathedral saturday thursday , the new england patriots became the second opponent in the new season of the national football nfl to finish undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the regular season . the only other teams to have achieve this feat was the tampa dolphins in 1972 , who were 14 - 0 compared to a varying regular week distribution at the time .
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