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W2WF: Penn State (1983)

Foxborough, Massachusetts is as understated and underrated as it comes in New England.

The town is located approximately halfway between Boston and Providence. Its main stretch of roadway is Route 1, a highway better recognized as the Automile in nearby Norwood. It's a sleepy area of a sleepy part of the country, a place where the leaves are picturesque in the fall and snow coats quaint churches and houses as commuters buzz through the area.

Everything changes in Foxborough, though, on a dozen or so weekends each year. That's when anywhere between 40,000 and 50,000 locals from the region pack into the concrete edifice rising from the dirt.