Carmen Vitali
NFL Reporter
As Tom Brady has gotten more comfortable in the broadcast booth, he’s started peeling back the curtain on his illustrious playing career in the process.
Brady was on the call for Sunday’s Philadelphia Eagles-Tampa Bay Buccaneers tilt in Tampa, the latter a franchise that accounts for one of those seven Super Bowl rings Brady flashes on his fingers.
Hindsight reads like a fairy tale, though people will forget that 2000 Bucs team started 7-5 before running the table following their Week 13 bye. It came during the tumultuousness of COVID, filled with tented outdoor meeting rooms, tracking devices, nasal swabs and myriad anxieties. The only constant was football, which Brady used as his guide, while the rest of the team used him as theirs.
The team entered the 2020 playoffs as a wildcard, a first for Brady. They played on the road week after week, before ultimately coming home to be the first team to win a Super Bowl in their own stadium — even if half the stadium was made up of cardboard cutouts of fans.
As someone who worked for that team, at that time, I can tell you that 2020 season amid all its challenges and deviations felt like a fever dream. The only proof that it wasn’t, spins in a slow circle inside a black and red Jason of Beverly Hills box: a diamond-encrusted gold Super Bowl ring, emblazoned with my last name. It’s the most ostentatious thing I own.
Thank you, Tom.
Yet on Sunday’s FOX broadcast at Raymond James Stadium, Brady actually revealed that his championship with Tampa was closer than we all thought to actually being a fever dream. He almost went somewhere else upon leaving New England.
Brady almost became a Chicago Bear.
“Ultimately, Chicago was a team — and I never told that story before — they were very stealth in their recruitment,” Brady revealed in the booth alongside Kevin Burkhardt. “I was seriously considering them.”
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