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Tom Brady is officially coming back to the NFL. No, he’s not un-retiring again; this time, he is returning as a broadcaster. His move from the player side to the media side is something that has been in the works for a while, and we now know which game will kick off his new job.
Brady will be the color commentator for a Week 1 matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Browns in Cleveland at 4:25 p.m. ET. The GOAT was 7-0 against the Cowboys in his career and 7-2 against the Browns. These are two teams he knows well, but instead of being on the other sideline, now he will be up in the booth.
“Amazing. Obviously having the Cowboys on is a huge draw,” Brady said in response to how it’ll feel to call Cowboys-Browns. “As ‘America’s Team’ — that’s going to get a little hard for me to say that all the time, understand they were the competition for a long time. But in this new role, I know the Cowboys, how important they are to this network, they got great storylines. C’mon, Dak Prescott, let’s see if he can finally come through.”
There are a lot of reasons to get excited for the seven-time Super Bowl champion to be calling his first game. For starters, a seven-time Super Bowl champion has never called a game before, because other than Brady, no player (or team) has ever hoisted that many Lombardi Trophies.
Here are three of the biggest reasons we are looking forward to hearing TB12 give commentary on an NFL game:
1. Finally, we get to hear the GOAT break down a football game in his highly anticipated debut
For years, we watched Brady dominate on the football field, from putting on a clinic demolishing defenses to running two-minute offenses that beat the odds to running up the score and experiencing significant losses — we really saw him do it all. His career spanned multiple decades, from 2000 to 2022. During that time, he played in 335 regular season games, starting 333, so he has just a…
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Author : Shanna McCarriston
Publish date : 2024-05-14 13:32:45
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