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Tom Brady will be working on Thanksgiving this year.
The seven-time Super Bowl winner will be on the call for Thursday’s New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys game on FOX (4:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app). It’ll mark the first time that Brady will call a Thanksgiving game and will continue the tradition established by John Madden where he awards the player of the game with a turkey leg.
As Brady is in his first year in the broadcast booth, he joked that he was surprised to learn that he had to work on the holiday.
“What!?!?” Brady said, jokingly making a face when Curt Menefee told him he had to work Thanksgiving this year on the “FOX NFL Sunday Postgame Show.”
While Brady was joking, apparently it was news to Michael Strahan that he had to work on Thanksgiving when he joined FOX’s studio show in 2008.
“Same exact look I had [when I found out I had to work Thanksgiving], Tom,” Strahan said. “Don’t feel bad about it. When we don’t show up on Thanksgiving, we’ll be having Thanksgiving together. Let these guys do their stuff.”
All jokes aside, this isn’t the first time Brady has had to work on Thanksgiving. He played four games on Thanksgiving in his illustrious career, having some memorable moments on the holiday in years past. Let’s take a look at Brady’s Thanksgiving history as he prepares to call Thursday’s Giants-Cowboys game.
2000: Tom Brady makes NFL debut on Thanksgiving
While many associate the start of Brady’s career with him taking over for Drew Bledsoe when the former New England Patriots quarterback was severely injured during a game against the New York Jets in 2001, he actually made a cameo in his rookie season.
When the Patriots faced the Detroit Lions in 2000, Bledsoe had a miserable day. His final pass of the game was a 101-yard pick-six that gave the Lions a 34-9 lead in the fourth quarter, causing Bill Belichick to put in Brady when the Patriots’ offense made its way back onto the field with 4:04 remaining.
While he was back in the state where…
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