According to recent information on him his grandfather was German. A large percentage of the United States ancestors were Northern European from 1620 to recent time. His actual ethnicity could be said to be American like so many others.
New England Patriots. The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division.
Prior to 2002, the Patriots played in Foxboro Stadium dating back to 1971, the team's second year in the NFL after the AFLâNFL merger. During the team's days in the American Football League, the Boston Patriots were hosted by a number of fields in or around Bostonâthey played at Braves Field, Harvard Stadium, Fenway Park, and Alumni Stadium.