{"id":2226760,"date":"2026-01-08T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2226760"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:56:08","slug":"ben-affleck-on-samuel-affleck-asking-for-sports-betting-money-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ben-affleck-on-samuel-affleck-asking-for-sports-betting-money-nbc-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck on Samuel Affleck asking for sports betting money \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Originally appeared on E! Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Samuel Affleck was hoping to capitalize on <\/span>Ben Affleck<\/a>‘s goodwill.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when the 13-year-old asked for some money to gamble, the Oscar winner was quick to shut down his son’s shocking request. <\/span><\/p>\n

“My son asked me like a month ago, was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to bet on sports?'” Ben shared on the Jan. 5 episode of <\/span>“Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/span><\/a>.” “It’s like, what?”<\/span><\/p>\n

He recalled his and ex-wife <\/span>Jennifer Garner<\/a>‘s youngest telling him, “‘My friends get $100, but if they lose it, then that’s it.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben \u2014 also dad to kids <\/span>Violet, 20, and <\/span>Seraphina, 17, with the “13 Going On 30” actress \u2014 was taken aback by their son’s ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a real standard, what discipline! Like, so that you don’t come twitching back going,'” he emphasized, “‘I know that Green Bay is going to cover the over in the second half.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

The “Good Will Hunting” star pointed to his own father <\/span>Timothy Affleck \u2014 who was formerly a bookie \u2014 adding, “There’s a reason your grandfather’s broke!”<\/span><\/p>\n

READ<\/b>: How Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s Daughter Violet Affleck Is Forging Her Own Path<\/a><\/p>\n

For Ben, gambling was a big part of his and younger brother <\/span>Casey Affleck‘s childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My father worked at a bar, but mostly made his money sort of being a small-time bookie,” he explained to host <\/span>Jimmy Kimmel. “I remember our first washing machine, our first VCR, in fact, Dad coming home like, ‘You can thank <\/span>Steve Grogan for this,’ the quarterback of the Patriots.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Everybody keeps betting the Patriots to beat the spread,” he continued. “And so I really was grateful that the Patriots were terrible\u2014just thank Steve Grogan’s knees for our VCR.”<\/span><\/p>\n

But it wasn’t lost on the 53-year-old that the gig wasn’t above board.<\/span><\/p>\n

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