Long before Tom Brady was even born in 1977, his Patriots team played for ten seasons in the American Football League from 1960-1969. For the franchise's entire AFL tenure, they were known as the Boston Patriots. After being absorbed into the NFL in the 1970 merger, the franchise proposed a name change to the "Bay State Patriots" but was shot down by the NFL league office, settling instead for the geographically encompassing name the "New England Patriots". Make a time trip back to the team's AFL period, with this 1960-1969 Boston Patriots program lot of (40). This remarkable collection presents in an overall pleasing condition average of (EX to NM) with 10% lesser. Featured are:

(3) 1960 1st Year programs: 9/9, 10/28, 11/25

(3) 1963: 10/11, 10/18, 11/17

(6) 1964: 8/9, 10/16, 10/23, 11/15, 11/20, 12/20

(7) 1965: 9/24, 10/8, 10/17, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/18

(1) 1966: 9/25

(6) 1967: 10/15, 10/22, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/9

(7) 1968: 9/22, 10/13, 10/20, 11/3, 11/10, 11/24, 12/1

(7) 1969: 9/21, 9/28, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/23

This is one of ten lots pulled from an outstanding collection of 1960s AFL football programs being offered in our current November, 2018 auction. Each of these lots represents one of the ten teams that played in the AFL. To review the other AFL program lots please see our Football Cards & Memorabilia/Publications category.