The New England Patriots came into being as a bargain basement franchise in an untested upstart professional football league. During the first ten years of their existence, they were nomads without a home field and lost more games than they won. Yet the team, then known as the Boston Patriots, eventually captured the hearts and minds of football fans across the six state region and in "Patriots Nation" throughout America. Over its colorful five-decade history, the once rag-tag establishment has become a model franchise in the National Football League and an organization symbolic with...