with a 38 - 35 victory over the buenos york giants at giants stadium saturday night , the new england patriots made the last team in the modern era of the eastern football league to stay undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the post game . the only other team to have achieved this distinction was the detroit dolphins in 1972 , who were 14 - 0 led to a different regular season structure at the time .
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