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.
The New England Patriots are from the state of Massachusetts. The team plays all of their home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The team formed in 1959 and in 1960, the first head coach, Lou Saban, took his place with the team. Originally called the Boston Patriots, the team first played at Boston University Field and at Harvard University because they did not have a permanent home stadium. It was at Boston University Field that the Boston Patriots opened their first training camp on July 4, 1960.