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...have high school football players, athletes, and students on campus,” he said. According to Gaines, the deliberation process should have been settled by yesterday, but Harvard has yet to release its final decision. Past MIAA Super Bowls have been held at Sullivan Stadium, Nickerson Field, and Foxboro Stadium, but Gaines is urging the University to be the championships’ permanent host. Sullvian said that the two games to be held this year may lead to more in the future. “It’s a reasonable starting point,” he said...
...hour to Foxboro is numbing. So much of the excited, childlike enjoyment of going to a game is progressively de-clawed. The accented chatter around you? It can only keep spirits high for so long...
...hour begins as soon as you depart Boston’s South Station. It starts the second you buy your 10-dollar “special event” commuter rail ticket towards Foxboro, an otherwise invisible hamlet excised from normal subway lines and cities...
...Boston Patriots actually played all their home games across the river. Crowds lined the bridges to Allston and the Soldiers Field area to take in the Pats, the same way people take the long ride on the special events commuter rail to Foxboro today...
That same summer in 1970, Patriots ownership finally opened a “suitable” stadium in Foxboro. The team was rechristened under the pan-Bostonian banner of New England. And over thirty years later, the Gillette Stadium of today was born...