Ben Affleck really loves the New England Patriots, and clearly he’s trying to pass that onto his 6-year-old son Samuel. The actor revealed the whole story on Jimmy Kimmel Live! 

It all started when Ben told his son about the “history” of being a fan of Boston’s football team, and Samuel said, “‘Dad, you’re from Boston. I’m from L.A.” This led to “a full existential crisis,” he told Jimmy Kimmel. 

“I failed. I’m a bad father. This is a disaster,” admitted the father of three, who shares Samuel, Violet, 13, and Seraphina, 10, with his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner. “There’s a certain sort of tragic pain that you carry with you as a person from Boston that you expect to imbue to your children that they’re gonna carry on. Like, we suffer through the cold and the misery, and we lose big sporting events.”

That’s when the Oscar winner called up some friends to give Samuel’s bedroom an extreme makeover. He hoped this would “help him understand where he comes from, if not literally, then at least spiritually.”

Apparently, Samuel’s room now includes a Tom Brady painting on one wall, an “emblem for the greatest sports franchise in the history of sports” on another, as well as a “gigantic football bisected by a slide.” And Ben had the pictures to prove it. 

But Jennifer isn’t so impressed. “My ex-wife thinks it’s creepy,” Ben told Jimmy.