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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