Patriots’ Austin Hooper, Bay Area native, is ‘smelling the roses’ in Super Bowl homecoming

Patriots’ Austin Hooper, Bay Area native, is ‘smelling the roses’ in Super Bowl homecoming

It’s not like coming back home is anything novel for Austin Hooper, who still visits De La Salle’s campus in the summer to train with his high school alma mater after 10 years in the NFL. And this isn’t his first Super Bowl, either. But both? At the same time? “That’s what makes this one that much more special,” the New England Patriots tight end told the Bay Area News Group this week. A decade after his first Super Bowl ended in heartbreak, as …