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T-Shirts and Celebrating in Boston for the Patriots' Super Bowl Win
Aired February 04, 2002 - 06:20 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's talk more about the Super Bowl. Curse of the Bambino, what curse? You know it's been 16 years since New England sports fans have celebrated a professional championship. Well, the drought is over in dramatic fashion with the Patriots stunning the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
Gail Huff of CNN affiliate WCVB joins us live from Boston.
You must be feeling good this morning, Gail.
GAIL HUFF, WCVB-TV REPORTER: Well I'm feeling good about the win. I am not feeling good about pulling the all-nighter. I tell you, all of us stayed up for the game. We're still at it right now this morning as all these workers are making the championship T-shirt. And I'll tell you, Patriots fans have waited many, many decades to see something just like that, red, white and blue.
You can see the dozens of workers here. They have 20,000 of these T-shirts to make to get out to all the stores by 8:00 this morning. With one-and-a-half minutes left in the game last night, they got a little nervous, weren't sure if they should go ahead and start up the printers or not depending upon what happened with the game. But fortunately for them, the Patriots won and fortunately for Pats country, the Patriots won. Now it's a matter of getting the T- shirts ready for all the fans who are going to head out to the stores this morning and buy them.
WCVB's Mary Saladna was out and about after the game last night to get fan's reaction.
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MARY SALADNA, WCVB-TV REPORTER (voice-over): This is how it ended, total euphoria, but it started rather cautiously. In the first 12 minutes, fans were enthusiastic and encouraged that the Pats held the Rams to just three points.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel pretty good. They kept the game close, and I think in their second period they're going to come out strong and score some more points.
SALADNA: Boy was he on the money. Fans went nuts when Ty Law intercepted in the second and took it all the way into the end zone, and then to add insult to injury, Brady to David Patten. Pats go ahead 14 to 3 and half the room hits their cell phones.
(on camera): Who were you talking to?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Family, you've got to call and check in, see how exciting everyone is.
SALADNA: Oh you've got to share it. Got to share it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got to share the love.
SALADNA (voice-over): Halftime was pretty good too. U2 and Dunkin' Donuts, of course. But in the end, all that really mattered were those last seven seconds.
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HUFF: Those last seven seconds. There isn't a Pats fan that is ever going to forget those last seven seconds that made all the difference in this game.
A lot of people not yet up this morning, but you can be sure that by the time the team comes back later today, they will be up, many of them greeting them when they come back to the stadium this afternoon. And tomorrow there's a huge celebration, a parade actually, in downtown Boston, and of course, thousands of people expected for that.
Reporting live from Boston, I'm Gail Huff -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Oh, Gail, I can only imagine.
Hey, when the Pats come back, can people actually greet them at the airport or is security keeping them away?
HUFF: No, they can greet them at the airport, although they're more likely to go to Foxboro Stadium, which is the home turf, of course, of the New England Patriots. It's harder to get much rapport with them at the airport given the security concerns there obviously. But out at the stadium, which is about 25 miles outside of Boston, there was hundreds and hundreds of people that greeted -- that said goodbye to them last time they left for the championship last weekend and of course greeted them when they returned. And I can imagine we'll have far more people there this time.
COSTELLO: I can only imagine. Thank you.
Gail Huff reporting for us live this morning from Boston.
HUFF: You're welcome.
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