It is rivalry week at SB Nation NFL! All week long, the entire network will focus on rivalries between franchises and people — the famous and the obscure. Today, we’ll kick things off with arguably the New England Patriots’ oldest rival.
It was a Saturday in September and the start of a rivalry that is still intense almost 60 years later. The second week of the American Football League’s inaugural season saw the Boston Patriots travel to the Big Apple to face the New York Titans — a team that would later re-name itself and from 1963 onward be known as the New York Jets.