Ben Affleck revealed on the April 30 episode of the New Heights podcast that Tom Brady once asked him to “run routes” with him while on vacation
He recalled that Brady told him at one point to run after the ball like it was the final quarter of the Super Bowl, and he managed to catch it
He described the day as being the “greatest day” aside “from the birth of my children”
Ben Affleck will never forget the special bonding moment he shared with Tom Brady.
The Accountant 2 star, 52, revealed on the Wednesday, April 30 episode of the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce that one of the most memorable moments of his life was when he got to “run routes” with the seven-time Super Bowl champion, 47.
“How many completions did we get? What were you running? What kind of routes are you running?” Jason, 37, asked.
“I won’t lie to you. I don’t know if they have a name. 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 replied. He shares three children — Violet Anne, 19, Seraphina Rose, 16, and Samuel, 13 — with ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.
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Travis Kelce, Ben Affleck and Jason Kelce, from top to bottom, film for ‘New Heights’
The actor recalled that he had been “on vacation” at the same location as the NFL star, and Brady told him that he needed “someone to play catch with.”
“I was like [thinking] how much I was helping him,” Affleck recalled. “I think he was like, ‘I’m gonna f—— blow this dude out of the car. And we literally got down there. And at first he’s like, ‘Okay, go out here, turn around, turn around.’”
“And I’m like, ‘Alright,’ run as fast as I can [and] turn around. I fix to look at him, he’s been waiting 45 minutes. I caught [the ball] because I was afraid of breaking my nose more than anything else. And then after a few of those, he’s like, ‘Alright. We’ll put some air on [the ball]. I was like, ‘No. No, it’s already plenty fast.’ ”
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He said Brady told him to pretend that he was playing in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl game with “23 seconds” on the clock and the team down to “fourth and 18.” The retired football player urged him to “just run,” Affleck recalled.
“So he’s like, look, look, calls it out. 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,’ ” Affleck shared. “To me, I was going as fast as you can go.”
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Tom Brady in October 2020
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“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 [and] I f—— catch it.”
This prompted the Kelce brothers to cheer, “Lets Go!” as the actor described the feat. Affleck said that after catching the ball, he acted like he “won” and even celebrated like it too, calling “everybody he knew” to tell them what happened.
“It was like the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me, and I lived a full life of dreams.” Affleck shared of his time playing with Brady. “Right in that whatever hour of playing catch.”
“You had a real Sandlot moment,” Jason replied, referring to the 1993 film which follows a new kid in town who is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy.
This isn’t the first time that Affleck has complimented the NFL great. While appearing on ESPN’s Get Up in 2020, he gushed that Brady — who played at the time for Affleck’s hometown team, The New England Patriots — is “a prince and a really sweet man, and the greatest football player that ever lived.”
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