Patriots Surprise Bullied Girl With Super Bowl Tickets

FOXBOROUGH, MA — A New Hampshire girl bullied for playing quarterback was surprised by none other than Julian Edelman with tickets to Super Bowl LIII. When the Patriots learned Dejah Rondeau, a seventh-grader and quarterback for the Exeter Seahawks, was being bullied, they decided to give her the star treatment.

Seacoast Online reported Pats owner Robert Kraft invited Rondeau to Patriot Place in the days following their nail-biting AFC championship victory over the Chiefs.

She wears No. 11 in honor of Edelman, and even got to play catch with the star receiver.

But the Pats weren't done surprising Rondeau. "Do you have any plans next Sunday?" Edelman joked in a video posted on the Patriots' website.

"No," she said, in shock.

"When Julian pulled out the tickets, I didn’t know what to say. I never in a million years thought I would go to a Super Bowl," she said, according to Seacoast.

"I heard about your story about going out there and having the challenge of dealing with adversity because of people not accepting this, that," Edelman said to his biggest fan. "My respect level for you is just through the roof because you just ignored all the noise and played the game we all love."

See the full Seacoast Online report and their video below:

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