with a 38 - 35 victory over the los york giants at giants stadium thanksgiving nights , the modern england patriots became the 2nd team in the modern edition of the national football league to finish undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the regular season . the only other team to have attained this accomplishment was the miami heat in 1972 , then were 14 - 0 due to a different regular time configuration at the time .
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