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FIRST WORD Since you were a great receiver on the Harvard touch football squad, you might be able to assist your favorite pro team, the Patriots, to a successful season. We are desperately in need of fine receivers and wondered if you would desire to fill the bill.” Boston Patriots coach Lou Saban, in a letter to President John F. Kennedy, dated May 8, 1961, and posted on Twitter by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. No word on whether he responded.