Affleck appeared on the new episode of the New Heights podcast.
Ben Affleck got to live every New England Patriots fan’s dream: playing catch with the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady.
Telling the story on a new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, he spoke about how the two were on vacation at the same place. Brady then asked Affleck to run some routes for him.
“I won’t lie to you. I don’t know if they have a name,” he said about the routes he ran. “I’m sure I disgraced every receiver that’s ever run around. But to this day, aside from the birth of my children, that was the greatest day.”
Affleck continued that the greatest part of the experience was simulating a game-defining Super Bowl situation.
“He was like, ‘OK, come here. It’s the Super Bowl. Fourth quarter. We have 23 seconds. It’s 4th-and-18,’” Affleck said. “It was amazing. He was like, ‘Just run straight. Don’t turn around. I’m going to get you the ball in the end zone.’ I was like, ‘Don’t turn around?’ And he was like, ‘Don’t look back.’ …
“I start running, I don’t look back. I’m sure to him it seemed like this. He’s like, ‘I’ve never seen somebody run-in slow motion.’ To me, I was going as fast as you can go. And I’m like wondering when’s this ball going to show up? And I look, I just feel like right out in front of me. And it was a little far for me. I think he probably adjusted back … and I reach out and I have to go all out extend. I f—–g catch it.”
Affleck went on to call it the “nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me.”