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Gino Cappelletti, original Boston Patriot and team broadcaster, dies at 89

Gino Cappelletti on the sidelines of a October 2009 game in Denver.The Boston Globe/Boston Globe

Gino Cappelletti sat in the radio booth at the New Orleans Superdome on Feb. 3, 2002, alongside longtime broadcasting partner Gil Santos and watched Adam Vinatieri kick a 48-yard field goal as time ran out to give the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl championship.

Mr. Cappelletti, an original Boston Patriot in 1960 who kicked 176 field goals during an 11-season career with the team, stood in the booth after the 20-17 victory over the St. Louis Rams and reflected.

“I looked at the numbers on the players’ jerseys and I was speechless as I recalled the players on our 1960 team who wore those same numbers,” Mr. Cappelletti told the Globe in 2016. “I thought of how they must have been feeling and how elated they would be.

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Mr. Cappelletti (right) and Larry Garron flanked the Patriots first PR man, Gerry Moore, at a preseason training camp in the early 1960s. (Cappelletti Family Collection)Cappelletti Family Collection
Mr. Cappelletti led the AFL in points five times, setting two of the top five AFL season scoring records, 147 points in 1961 and 155 in 1964.handout


Mr. Cappelletti, flanked by two Heisman trophy winners, Joe Bellino (left) and Jim Plunkett in 1971.The BOSTON GLOBE/Boston Globe


Mr. Cappelletti announced his retirement in August 1971.charles carey


Gino Capelletti, Patriots Hall of Fame player Suzanne Kreiter
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