Very little makes longtime NFL Films employee Tom Costello happier than the unfinished, 55-minute film created for use if the favored Patriots had defeated the Eagles in Super Bowl LII.
“I was more nervous about having to be tortured by watching the Patriots DVD than I was worried about whether the Eagles were going to win,” Costello said. “It was going to be torture to kiss Tom Brady’s ring.”
Costello, a lifelong Philly sports fan who has worked at NFL Films for 29 years, grew up in South Philly and was just 9 years old in 1974, when the Flyers paraded the Stanley Cup down Broad Street.