{"id":126507,"date":"2026-01-17T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126507\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:45:10","slug":"police-chiefs-in-massachusetts-texas-make-friendly-hat-wager-over-patriots-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126507\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chiefs in Massachusetts, Texas, make friendly hat wager over Patriots playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBASE. THAT\u2019S NEW ON FIVE. A FRIENDLY WAGER OVER THE PATRIOTS. I\u2019VE BEEN WAITING TO SAY THIS ALL WEEK. HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM. RIGHT. GOOD. THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ROCHESTER MASS. CHALLENGING SEVERAL TEXAS POLICE CHIEFS. IF THE PATS WIN, THE TEXAS CHIEFS, THEY\u2019LL HAVE THE POLICE CHIEFS WILL HAVE A HAVE TO WEAR A PATRIOTS HAT AND RECORD A FACEBOOK VIDEO SAYING HOW GREAT THE PATRIOTS ARE, OR VICE VERSA. THE CHIEF IN KENMORE, TEXAS, IS IN. I GOT YOU COVERED, BROTHER. JUST SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS. I\u2019LL BE SENDING IT YOUR WAY. OH THAT\u2019S GREAT. ARE YOU KIDDING? THOSE ARE GREAT. I MEAN, THEY SAY EVERYTHING\u2019S BIGGER IN TEXAS, BUT. YOU\u2019RE STILL. YOU\u2019RE STILL STICKING WITH A LITTLE SNOW. MAYBE GAME TIME. YEAH, I THINK THERE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF SNOW THAT COULD PLAY WELL INTO OUR HANDS. SEE, I\u2019LL JUST REMIND YOU, I BELIEVE IT SNOWS ON BOTH SIDELINES. I\u2019M JUST, Y\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Police chiefs in Massachusetts, Texas, make friendly hat wager over Patriots playoff game<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:16 PM EST Jan 16, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe chief of police in Rochester, Massachusetts challenged several of his counterparts in Texas ahead of Sunday’s Patriots playoff game against the Texans.”I’ve been waitin’ to say this all week: Houston, we gotta problem,” said Chief Michael Assad Jr.The challenge is if the Pats win, the Texas chiefs have to wear a Patriots hat and record a Facebook video saying how great New England is, or vice versa.Kemah, Texas’s police chief, Raymond Garivey, answered the call.”I gotchu covered brother,” Chief Garivey said, pulling out an oversized Texans hat. “Just send me the address.”Kickoff is at 3 p.m. on Sunday and you can watch the game on NewsCenter 5.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tROCHESTER, Mass. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The chief of police in Rochester, Massachusetts challenged several of his counterparts in Texas ahead of Sunday’s Patriots playoff game against the Texans.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been waitin’ to say this all week: Houston, we gotta problem,” said Chief Michael Assad Jr.<\/p>\n

The challenge is if the Pats win, the Texas chiefs have to wear a Patriots hat and record a Facebook video saying how great New England is, or vice versa.<\/p>\n

Kemah, Texas’s police chief, Raymond Garivey, answered the call.<\/p>\n

“I gotchu covered brother,” Chief Garivey said, pulling out an oversized Texans hat. “Just send me the address.”<\/p>\n

Kickoff is at 3 p.m. on Sunday and you can watch the game on NewsCenter 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BASE. THAT\u2019S NEW ON FIVE. A FRIENDLY WAGER OVER THE PATRIOTS. I\u2019VE BEEN WAITING TO SAY THIS ALL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3988,54624,54626,54625,56,38772,10746,54619,54620,10247,54622,54627,54623,54621,54572,52304,4842,27,29,28,24444,449],"class_list":["post-126507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brother","tag-chief-michael-assad-jr","tag-friendly-hat-wager","tag-gotchu","tag-houston","tag-kemah","tag-massachusetts","tag-michael-assad-jr","tag-newscenter-5","tag-patriots","tag-patriots-playoff-game","tag-pats-win","tag-police-chief","tag-raymond-garivey","tag-rochester","tag-sunday","tag-texans","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wcvb","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}