"My dad was so irritated that the Pirates won," says Tom, who was seven at the time and got let out of Catholic school early so he could run home and see Maz's heroics on the black-and-white TV set. "And he didn't want to see the playbacks which were on TV. The Pirates weren't supposed to win, and they did, which really upset him. We all tried to make it a joke, and it was not to be a joke."