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What might Connecticut look like if the New England Patriots had actually moved to Hartford? - Hartford Courant
>>Twenty years ago, the Patriots nearly moved to Hartford. Or at least, they engaged in talks that would have brought them to Hartford, to play at a shiny new stadium along the Connecticut River. Then logistics surrounding the Hartford Steam Plant (which continues to stand where the stadium would have been placed), local insistence that the team play in Hartford and not East Hartford and a late push by Massachusetts lawmakers to keep the team in the greater Boston area quashed the proposed deal. The Patriots got a new venue in Foxborough, and Hartford got... a college football stadium across the river and some hurt feelings to go along with it. <<
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>>Twenty years ago, the Patriots nearly moved to Hartford. Or at least, they engaged in talks that would have brought them to Hartford, to play at a shiny new stadium along the Connecticut River. Then logistics surrounding the Hartford Steam Plant (which continues to stand where the stadium would have been placed), local insistence that the team play in Hartford and not East Hartford and a late push by Massachusetts lawmakers to keep the team in the greater Boston area quashed the proposed deal. The Patriots got a new venue in Foxborough, and Hartford got... a college football stadium across the river and some hurt feelings to go along with it. <<
Keep it out of the cesspool...