Foxboro Stadium (New England Patriots)

Blanks are shredded bits of the plastic stadium seats mixed with complementary team-colored resin.

Available Sizes:

• Pen Blanks: Minimum 3/4" x 3/4" square
• Bottle Stopper and Ring Blanks: 1-1/2" round
• Full Pen Blocks: 6" x 5" and a minimum of 7/8" thick
• Knife Scale Pair: 2@ 5" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" minimum

All blanks include one Certificate of Authenticity (COA) per blank—a 4" x 6" card stock with foil-embossed seal, protected in a hard-shell plastic sleeve. Full Pen Blocks come with 10 COAs.

Most blanks are cut to order for freshness. Pen Blocks require a 2-3 week turnaround.

Foxboro Stadium: Patriots' Foxborough Fortress of Gridiron Grit

Foxboro Stadium anchored the suburban sprawl of Foxborough, Massachusetts—a no-frills bastion of New England football forged in the AFL-NFL merger's fire. After a decade of nomadic woes in Boston venues like Fenway Park and Harvard Stadium, groundbreaking sliced the turf on September 23, 1970, birthing a $7.1 million concrete colossus with no public dime—privately funded by a consortium led by William Sullivan. It roared open on August 15, 1971, with the newly rechristened New England Patriots topping the New York Giants 20-14 before over 60,000 fans, marking the franchise's bold leap from Boston blues to regional rebirth.

From its inaugural 60,764 seats swelling to 61,345 amid minimal expansions, Foxboro encircled a standard 120x53-yard gridiron on AstroTurf (swapped to grass in 1984 for the USFL's Patriots stint), fostering raw, rattling intimacy where chain-link fences hemmed the Dawg Pound precursors—dimensions a runner's delight under those utilitarian upper decks. Facelifts were few: 1983's Sullivan Stadium rebrand honoring the owners, 1989's return to Foxboro Stadium, and 1990s' $20 million turf-to-grass and lighting tweaks—blending budget bones with blue-collar brawn, all while battling bankruptcy and blackouts in its twilight.

Patriots' pounding ground for 31 seasons, Foxboro cradled the 1985 AFC Championship thriller (lost to Bears en route to Super XX), Grogan's grit-fueled 1980s surges, and Bledsoe's bombs amid 300+ home wins and sellout streaks. Record roars hit 61,345 for 1979's playoff pulse vs. Texans, pulsing with rivalry rumbles vs. Jets and Dolphins, the 1994 USFL experiment, and fan-fueled fortitude through lean years. Demolished in 2008 for Gillette's gleam, Foxboro endures as a testament to tenacity, triumphs, and timeless turf in NFL's northeast.