Tom Brady in the United States enjoys no less fame than the greatest Hollywood stars. He is considered the most handsome footballer in the NFL league. He has 6 Super Bowl championship rings to his name and individual prizes that are hard to count. Speaking of the greatest talents of American football, his name should be mentioned in the first place.
Tom Brady: career
As is usually the case with NFL players, Tom Brady’s sports career began in college. From 1995 to 1999, he played for the 1997 Michigan Wolverines team, representing the University of Michigan, for the first two seasons as a reserve quarterback, being the seventh player in line to play. To deal with anxiety and stress, at that time, Tom even hired a sports psychologist. He also felt that he was not using his physical potential, so he started seeing Greg Harden – a personal trainer once a week. In the final year, Brady was already the team’s primary playmaker and captain.
Initially, no one saw him as the greatest football star. During the sixth round of the New England Patriots draft, Brady was picked with the number … 199! In his rookie season, he was only the third (last) player out of the reserve players.
The 2001 season also began on the bench. The breakthrough came in the second week of the competition, when Drew Bledsoe – the Patriots’ backbone quarterback – suffered a severe knee injury. Brady replaced the top-earning NFL player on the pitch. It was a turning point in his career. With Brady as quarterback, the team took 1st place at the AFC East. He led the team to the league final and to victory over St. Louis Rams at the XXXVI Super Bowl. He himself won the MVP award, i.e. the laurel of the most valuable player.
The 2002 season was not so successful for him. Patriots won 9 games and did not qualify for the play-offs.
A year later, he led the team to another Super Bowl victory (against the Carolina Panthers), and himself won a second MVP award. Patriots also triumphed in the following season, defeating the Philadelphia Eagels in the Super Bowl.
Although the Patriots did well in the following seasons, they didn’t reach the Super Bowl until 2007.
The 2008 season was extremely unlucky for Tom. Already in the first match he suffered a knee injury, which excluded him from the game. He only returned to the field in the 2009 season and won the title of the Best Player of the League.
Throughout his career, Tom Brady has won 3 MNP League Awards, 6 Super Bowls and 4 MVP Super Bowl awards. He played for the Patriots for 20 years. In the 2020 season, he started playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tom Brady: earnings
Big sport is big money, especially overseas, where the best NFL players enjoy the status of national heroes. So it’s no surprise that Brady, one of the sport’s biggest stars, collects astronomical sums each year. In 2020, the prestigious magazine “Forbes” placed him at the 64th position in the ranking of the world’s best-earning celebrities. From May 2019 to May 2020, $ 45 million was credited to his bank account.
If that number does not give you enough food for thought, we will only mention that during Brady’s two-decade relationship with the New England Patriots, the athlete earned a whopping $ 197 million, a sum that does not include the athlete’s earnings from his business activities.
Tom Brady: private life and wife
Thomas Edward Patric Brady Jr. was born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo. He was interested in football from an early age. He attended Junipero Serra High School, later enrolled at the University of Michigan.
In 2004, Tom began dating actress Bridget Moynahan. Their relationship lasted until December 2006. It was around this time that Bridget became pregnant. In August 2007, their son, John, was born.
After parting ways with the actress, Tom began dating the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen. On February 26, 2009, the couple got married. They have two children – son Benjamin Rein and daughter Vivian Lake.
Tom Brady: Instagram, Twitter
How popular can a sports star be? Very large, although these words do not reflect the fame of Tom Brady. To illustrate it better, we will only say that his profile on Instagram is followed by 7.8 million people, although the football star mainly posts photos from sports events there! Brady also does not complain about the lack of popularity on Twitter, where he willingly shares his personal comments and his thoughts. He is followed by 1.3 million people on the popular website.
Tom Brady: interesting facts
Tom Brady has Polish roots. Most likely, both great-grandmothers of the talented player – Maria Ulik and Katarzyna Anastazja KoÅ›licki – came to the United States from Poland.
Although the athlete is unlikely to speak publicly about his political views, he admitted that Donald Trump is his good friend and personally considers him a great president.
Tom Brady was close to choosing a different sports discipline. His great love was basketball and baseball. Ultimately, he decided to pursue a career as a football player.
Even though he is considered one of the NFL’s biggest stars today, during his student days, Brady did not stand out in terms of sportsmanship among his peers and often “warmed the bench”.
He won a place in the base line-up of the Patriots team by accident, after a serious injury to Drew Bledsoe.
Tom Brady appeared in the comedy production “Ted 2”, the main character of which was a living teddy bear. The star played himself in the film. In the scene with him, Mark Wahlberg breaks into the footballer’s house with his plush friend to … get his seed.
It wasn’t Brady’s only adventure with the film. In 2003, he starred in “Skazanych na siÄ™”, where he played a computer geek. In 2015, he played a cameo role in the movie “The Team”.
In 2010, Tom Brady had a dramatic looking car accident which he luckily came out unscathed. On the same day he participated in training.