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Syracuse Football: Jimmy Garoppolo paid back Dino Babers at Super Bowl

On Wednesday afternoon Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers spoke with the media for the first time since the end of the 2019 season.

A lot of ground was covered during the near 20-minute presser, but the most fascinating storyline came at the end.

Dino Babers revealed that he attended Super Bowl 54 in support of his former Eastern Illinois and now San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.

Early during media week, Garoppolo was asked about Babers and bluntly stated that he wouldn’t be in the Super Bowl “if it wasn’t for Dino.