{"id":7227,"date":"2022-09-18T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2022-09-18T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:43:35","slug":"ticket-please-new-england-patriots-vs-arizona-cardinals-9-15-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ticket-please-new-england-patriots-vs-arizona-cardinals-9-15-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Please: New England Patriots vs. Arizona Cardinals, 9\/15\/1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine now but there was a time before Bill Belichick was head coach of the New England Patriots. Here&#8217;s a piece of evidence in the form of a ticket stub from a game the Pats played on September 15, 1996 against the Arizona Cardinals (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/New_England_Patriots_vs._Arizona_Cardinals_(September_15,_1996)\">the program can be found here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket.jpg\" alt=\"Ticket Please: New England Patriots vs. Arizona Cardinals, 9\/18\/1996\" width=\"664\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket-501x1024.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front of the ticket shows New England great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Bruce_Armstrong\">Bruce Armstrong<\/a> blocking who I believe is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Bruce_Smith\">Bruce Smith<\/a>. In the game the Pats dominated the Cards, 31-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket2.jpg\" alt=\"Ticket Please: New England Patriots vs. Arizona Cardinals, 9\/18\/1996\" width=\"670\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket2-148x300.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1996-patriots-cardinals-nfl-ticket2-505x1024.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine now but there was a time before Bill Belichick was head coach of the New England Patriots. Here&#8217;s a piece of evidence in the form of a ticket stub from a game the Pats played on September 15, 1996 against the Arizona Cardinals (the program can be found here). The front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[286,616,578,89,91,11,111],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticket-please","tag-1990s","tag-616","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-series","tag-tickets","wpcat-110-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}