Joe Mazzulla’s love of ‘The Town’ lands him on ‘Jeopardy!’ as a clue
This marks the second time this year that Boston sports has been featured as a clue on "Jeopardy!".
Joe Mazzulla’s affinity for the Boston-based heist film, “The Town,” has been well-documented at this point.
It’s made his musings about the Ben-Affleck-directed flick go viral on several occasions, and probably has Fenway Park security doing a double-take whenever he steps into Boston’s ballpark.
“I went to Fenway the other day, and I was literally looking at exit strategies to rob Fenway,” Mazzulla said earlier this year during an appearance on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take”. “If we ever decided to rob Fenway, I was like, ‘We could probably really get away with this.’ How could you not go to Fenway and think you couldn’t rob it?”
Now, Mazzulla’s love of the iconic 2010 film has landed him on “Jeopardy!” as a clue.
During Tuesday’s episode of the longtime trivia game show, Mazzulla was mentioned as a hint for a question under the “Heist Movies” category.
The clue read: “Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has admitted to watching this heist film directed by Ben Affleck several times a week.”
That’s not an embellishment on the part of Jeopardy’s writers, either.
“As an assistant, I watched it two to three times a week, easy,” Mazzulla said of “The Town” on “Pardon My Take”. “We do most of our work after the games, so you have to stay up late at night. I never liked waking up with work to do from the day before. When I was an assistant, and I had to turn in my postgame edits, I would go home and just work from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. I needed something to kind of keep me up or keep me going.
“There was a three-movie shuffle (the other two were “Whiplash” and “The Dark Knight”) that I would turn on in order to get me through the game so that I could get to bed. The Town ended up being one of them. It’s not something that I’m obsessed with to the point where I’m still watching it. That was a part of my postgame process that helped me.”
Mazzulla’s love of the film was first revealed during the 2022-23 season, when he told NBC Sports Boston’s Brian Scalabrine that he’d watch it four times a week because of its “Boston mindset”.
After the Celtics bested the 76ers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals later that season, Mazzulla wore a sweatshirt with the catchphrase from the film, “Whose car we gonna take?” during his postgame press conference.
This marks the second time this year that a Boston sports team has been featured on “Jeopardy!”.
In July, the Boston Bruins were the subject of a question in the category: “From the Dutch.”
“This NHL franchise turning 100 in 2024 gets its name from a Dutch color word,” the clue read.
One contestant incorrectly guessed “orange,” with the other two contestants not risking a guess.
“That would be the Boston Bruins,” show host Ken Jennings noted. The word “Bruin” translates to “Brown” in Dutch.
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