--- title: Ben Affleck's Son Has His Very Own Tom Brady Chair description: When Ben Affleck's son suggested he may want to root for Los Angeles rather than Boston, Affleck decided that extreme measures were in order. canonical: https://time.com/5530461/ben-affleck-on-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-15T16:13:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:30.796Z og:title: Ben Affleck's Son Has His Very Own Tom Brady Chair og:description: "My ex-wife says it's creepy" og:url: https://time.com/5530461/ben-affleck-on-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed7ed2cff26dbc6/6989453716d884b0eec34a18/screen-shot-2019-02-15-at-10.22.37-am-1.png?branch=production&width=954&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 954 og:image:height: 537 og:image:alt: Ben-Affleck-Jimmy-Kimmel-Tom-Brady-Chair og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben Affleck's Son Has His Very Own Tom Brady Chair twitter:description: "My ex-wife says it's creepy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed7ed2cff26dbc6/6989453716d884b0eec34a18/screen-shot-2019-02-15-at-10.22.37-am-1.png?branch=production&width=954&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'My Ex-Wife Thinks It's Creepy.' 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I failed, I’m a bad father. This is a disaster. I don’t know what to do,” he said of his son’s revelation during a Thursday appearance on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ “Well, I’ll tell you what, I was going to put an end to that.” Affleck proceeded to explain how he arranged for his son’s room to be decked out in New England Patriots paraphernalia to demonstrate to him where his loyalties should lie. However, Affleck’s ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, wasn’t too fond of one of the new pieces of furniture in particular, a chair designed to look like Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s head. “That’s a chair. You sit in that,” Affleck said. “That is Tom Brady. My ex-wife thinks it’s creepy.” “It is creepy!” Kimmel retorted. 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