New trading card campaign imagines a world where Tom Brady played baseball

In 1995, the Montreal Expos drafted a left-handed hitting catcher out of Serra High School in San Mateo, Calif. named Tom Brady. But instead of continuing his time on the diamond after an impressive high school baseball career, Brady went to play football as a quarterback at the University of Michigan.

You know the rest of the story. Brady assembled an NFL career widely regarded as the greatest of all time, winning six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

But what if Brady had decided to embark on a professional baseball journey instead all the way back in 1995? A new campaign from the famed baseball card company Topps imagines a universe where that happened, releasing a video glimpse into that world with plenty of hidden references for sports junkies. Brady himself posted the video to social media Tuesday:

The campaign was unveiled Tuesday in honor of “Brady Day” or 12/12, evoking the jersey number he wore throughout his NFL career. The length of the video is one minute and 20 seconds long, or 1:20, another reference to the number. The video ends with Brady awaking from his baseball-themed dream with his alarm going off at 12:12.

The video, set in an Expos-themed bar called “Brady’s Brasserie,” shows Expos fans reminiscing on Brady’s legendary baseball career, where he also won seven titles and hit 649 home runs (the real-life Brady had 649 touchdown passes in the NFL). 

In addition to showing several individual baseball accolades for Brady, video also references “the greatest comeback of all time” against the Atlanta Braves. Brady, of course, led the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time after being down 28-3 to the Atlanta Falcons in 2017. It even mentions that he would have more titles if he did not lose twice to the San Francisco Giants. Brady famously lost two Super Bowls to the New York Giants.

Eli Manning, the quarterback of those New York Giants teams, even got in on the bit Tuesday, releasing his own video…

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Publish date : 2023-12-13 03:53:35

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