'Meet the Garoppolos': Patriots Backup Quarterback Shows Off Hometown

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Patriots backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo showed off his hometown in a recent video posted on the NFL team’s website.

Garoppolo, an Arlington Heights native, was in line to start for the Patriots this past season if Tom Brady had not won his suspension appeal, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He will remain on the bench this season but the Patriots featured the Roling Meadows High School grad in their “Meet the Garoppolos” video.

“It was a good life growing up. Having a good family around me, good friends. It really helped out a bunch,” Garoppolo said in the video.

Garoppolo started on the football team at Rolling Meadows High School but did not play quarterback until his junior year, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“The Meet the Garoppolos” video includes interviews with his parents. They described their excitement in learning Garoppolo had been drafted to the Patriots in 2014.

“We put our Bears stuff away,” Jimmy’s dad said in the video. “When we came home from the draft our neighbors had decorated our entire home inside and out with Patriots stuff.”

In 2014, Garappolos played in six regular season games, completing 19 out of 27 passes for 182 yards and one touchdown, according to the Patriots website.

The full video can be watched on the Patriot’s website.