{"id":468556,"date":"2026-02-09T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:39:18","slug":"super-bowl-2026-new-england-patriots-wide-receiver-mack-hollins-makes-wild-entrance-in-prisoner-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468556\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 2026: New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins makes wild entrance in prisoner outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins has made a wild entrance to the Super Bowl, dressed in prison garb, handcuffed and wearing a face mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Hollins looked straight ahead as he walked ast reporters into the changerooms, wearing a maroon jumpsuit with the words \u201cRange 13\u201d emblazoned on the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Range 13 appears to refer to a special unit inside one of the US\u2019 most controversial supermax prisons, ADX Florence in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Hollins was handcuffed and also wore leg chains as he walked past the cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He also sported a Hannibal Lecter-style face mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In his hands, he held a New England jersey which he wore during warm-up sessions on the ground before the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Hollins is known for his wild outfits, and it\u2019s previously been reported that he doesn\u2019t use utensils to eat his food and barely drinks water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d6de35a6e62acabd9390c537d44810d7281c7f35.jpg\" alt=\"New England Patriots' Mack Hollins walks in a prisoner outfit and barefoot before the Seahawks play the New England Patriots during Super Bowl LX.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>New England Patriots&#8217; Mack Hollins walks in a prisoner outfit and barefoot before the Seahawks play the New England Patriots during Super Bowl LX. Credit: Santiago Mejia\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Patriots are the sixth NFL team he\u2019s played for in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He\u2019ll be hoping they can achieve a miraculous turnaround today from their previous season in which a dismal 4-13 record saw a change of coach over the off-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">New mentor Mike Vrabel wasted no time in maximising the talents of rising young quarterback Drake Maye to help restore the famous franchise as an NFL powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b6c56069cff07ed843800e974982b03c9824f8e4.jpg\" alt=\"Hollins stared straight ahead as he walked past the cameras.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Hollins stared straight ahead as he walked past the cameras. Credit: Charlie Riedel\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins has made a wild entrance to the Super Bowl, dressed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,27505,588,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-468556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-other-sports","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}