The City of Boston has had its share of professional football clubs that called this eastern city home. The Patriots were not the first team to call Boston its home base.
The Boston Shamrocks played from 1936-1937 in the second league that called themselves the American Football League. Fenway Park was the home of the Boston Bears in 1940 in the third American Football League. The Boston Yanks competed in the NFL from 1944-1948. The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves and then the Boston Redskins.