FHS 2000 Div-4 Football Super Bowl Champs Inducted into the Hall of Fame
On Sunday, June 28, 2026 the FHS Hall of Fame inducted the third Fairhaven High School Football Team. This 2000 Super Bowl Championship squad was expertly coached by Dana Almeida '70 and was his third team to be inducted (1991 and 1994 teams were inducted in 2025).
The journey began on September 13th in Swansea when Fairhaven’s rock-ribbed defense held Case to seven points and first year back Jon Tadeu accounted for both touchdowns in a 13-7 win. Up from the Junior Varsity, the kid whose name included an extra ‘a’ (Tadeau) on every regular season program may have earned the ‘a’ for effort for finishing the 10-game schedule with a team leading 14 touchdowns, including multiple trips to the endzone in half of those regular season contests. Coupled with the team’s 1999 scoring leader (Nate Patterson – 12 touchdowns), the pair combined for 18 of Fairhaven’s 31 touchdowns enroute to a 9-1 record and tri-championship in the South Coast Conference.
Behind the defensive play of twins Mike and Matt Menard, Matt Ponte, Glen Oliveira up front and the veteran secondary that included Kevin Mitchell, Gary Westgate and Greg Bobola, the Blue Devils held the first five opponents to a combined 37 points to help ignite a 6-0 start.
Seamus Carr took the starting reins at quarterback and guided the offense to routs of Mashpee (33-0), Apponequet (30-6), Wareham (37-12) and Bourne (25-6) while Tadeu (6), Bobola (5), Patterson (3), Westgate, Scott Pease, Josh Charpentier, Pat Mullen and Carr (1 each) combined for 19 touchdowns. A 7-6 win at GNB Voc-Tech came via a Tadeu touchdown and Mike Menard’s clinching point after conversion kick.
The lone blemish in that 9-1 regular season came the following week in Fairhaven when visiting Dighton-Rehoboth rolled to a 22-16 win. But, instead of folding, the Blue Devils rolled up 35 points in a 35-29 shoot out victory over visiting Old Rochester. Tadeu and Patterson combined for all 5 touchdowns with Tadeu scoring 3.
A 7-6 victory at Dartmouth capped a 9-1 regular season with Menard’s PAT putting the period after Charpentier’s touchdown. Fairhaven went on to stretch its unbeaten Super Bowl record to 3-0 on the strength of two touchdowns by Tadeu (whose name was finally corrected in a game program and in the Standard-Times game report), and one each by Patterson, Carr and Charpentier. Menard converted five PAT kicks enroute to the 35-14 victory at Boston College’s Alumni Field.