Tony Lapolito has been a New England Patriots season ticket-holder since 1993, he has been at six of the team’s Super Bowl appearances and, from his end zone seat in Section 13, Row 9 at Foxboro Stadium, had perfect perspective of Adam Vinatieri’s tying field goal in the famous Snow Bowl.
The 59-year-old Lapolito’s collection of Patriots memorabilia includes a photo of him amid the swirling confetti in Houston, celebrating New England’s fifth title at Super Bowl LI (the “28-3” game), another of him touching the Vince Lombardi Trophy as former vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli raised it after Super Bowl XXXIX, a Super Bowl XXXVI replica trophy, and remnants of an air freshener from the old stadium’s South end zone men’s bathroom.