“When Vinatieri kicked that field goal, I jumped up and ran out of my room and down the hallway, screaming at the top of my lungs. He’s going to grow up with a winning attitude, instead of this inevitable, your-heart’s-going-to-be-broken attitude. He’s not going to know what it feels like to blow it. “I’m alone in this hotel room, it’s dark out, three feet of snow, and it occurs to me how his life as a sports fan will be different if we win this game. “Brandon was already a diehard Boston sports fan. “During that last drive, I started to get this very clear visual,” he said. Wahlberg’s thoughts veered to his 9-year-old nephew, Brandon Wahlberg. “There was this real clear thought that I had, that all Boston sports fans had, that somehow, some way, this is going to go bad for the Patriots,” he said. “So I decided I’m just going to sit there in my hotel room in Prince George and watch the game by myself.”įast forward to late in the fourth quarter, the game tied, Tom Brady taking the Patriots on a drive that would culminate with Adam Vinatieri’s championship-clinching field goal. He considered flying to Los Angeles to watch the game with friends, “but I would have had to head back to Canada the next day,” he said. In early 2001, as the Patriots were playing the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, Wahlberg was holed up in a hotel in Prince George, British Columbia, while working on the sci-fi/horror flick “Dreamcatcher.” “But ‘New Kids’ was over,” he said, “and I was working job to job as an actor.
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