Super Bowl LI, A Personal Experience for LG’s Deputy Director COL Fleming

Col. Fleming, left, celebrates the Patriots win with her son at Super Bowl LI.

When the NFL’s New England Patriots staged their epic comeback in the second half of Super Bowl LI to defeat the Atlanta Falcons, few Patriots fans were more excited than Exchange associate COL Karen Fleming, deputy director, Logistics. Her son, no. 71, Cameron Fleming, is an offensive lineman for the winning Patriots.

The Patriots drafted Cameron out of Stanford University in 2014, where he majored in aeronautics and astronautics.

“I’m amazed at how well he’s done in school, and then to go on to play in the NFL. It was something special to be selected to attend Stanford. You have to meet certain academic criteria, even as an athlete, to get in,” Fleming said.

True football fans may remember the Patriots also won Super Bowl XLIX–  the year Cameron was drafted – and Fleming was there to witness her son’s first Super Bowl victory.

“I never thought I’d go to one [Super Bowl], much less two. I’m quite proud,” Fleming said.