There's a pretty cool article about Tom Brady on ESPN, so I figured I would share it since all this recruiting mumbo-jumbo has died down.
Some interesting tidbits:
Anyways, it's well worth the read on a slow night. Michigan is also mentioned plenty of times.
Im 25 and a long time
All you have to remember
All you have to remember is 34-46-0-369 with 4 tds.
Not that weird
If my math is right you were in 7th grade when he was a senior. I'm older than you but didn't start following Michigan athletics until I decided to enroll at UM in the spring of 2000. I have zero M-related Brady memories.
It is spelled HOKEAMANIA. Our coach is an ass-kicking American citizen, not one of the Beatles, for Christ's sake!
I remember
I remember cringing a lot, and the fmr women's bball player from the 70s yelling, "Ppppuuuttt in Hensonnnnn!" while all the wives around us nodded in agreement. I remember the drunk at the end of the row refusing to refer to Drew Henson as anything but, "the MESSIAH" and he would ask our row to genuflect every time he came on the field. Bill Freehan would just look away. Good times in section 2! Yes section 2 knew far better than Lloyd that Henson was the man compared to Brady /s
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I'm 24 and I feel the same way.
Greetings from Bolivia.
"It's special how the real true people hang together. And if you don't support the program you're not a true Michigan guy. It's that simple." - Gary Moeller
Always a nice guy and a great
Always a nice guy and a great student. He had a nice arm. He was the least mobile QB we have ever had. Watching him run was sheer pain. John Navarre could easily destroy him in a running race. In Brady's last game at the big house against Ohio, a huge hole opened up on a play and all the receivers were covered. So Brady took off running in what was probably the most painful 14 yard run I've ever witnessed.
Another great memory of him I have is against Penn State in Happy Valley (Jerry Sandusky's final game) where Lloyd called the transcontinental pass which he always did once a year. But he knew Brady wasn't fast enough to get anything on it so he did a fake injury and had Henson come in to take the pass from Diaolo Johnson. Brady's fake limp to the sideline wasn't caught on camera but all the players on the sideline laughed at how bad it looked.
He made me want to pull my hair out at times during the 98 season but he improved as the season went on. When he knew he would have to compete with Drew Henson to be the starter in 99, he stayed in Ann Arbor all Summer to train and work his ass off instead of going home to California. He was known as the comeback king in 99 leading us to second half comebacks against Notre Dame, Indiana, Penn State and Ohio State. Oh, and that little Orange Bowl game against Bama where we were down by 2 touchdowns twice.
In person, I only saw 2 of his games. 98-Eastern Michigan and 99-Northwestern. That second game was great. Brady threw a touchdown pass to Marcus Knight that was literally right in front of me.
I didn't know much about the NFL in those days so I thought his lack of mobility might keep him from ever succeeding in it. Good call there.
Go Blue! Always!
Look at the buffet busters up
Look at the buffet busters up front...
See it through.
I was at the Penn State game
I was at the Penn State game in Happy Valley with my wife. Even though we got down 10 in the fourth quarter, PSU knew that there was too much time left. They could not defend Brady's passing. Michigan marched down the field and scored late on a TD pass for the win.
My wife knows who Tom Brady is because of the TV and People Magazine level of fame. I remind her now and then: "Do you realize you saw him play in person before he was famous at that '99 game at Penn State? That is who the Michigan quarterback was." She is very pleased by this.
M'Dog
That Tom Brady highlight reel...
...looks a lot like a Tai Streets / David Terrell highlight reel.
But did you know he was taken
But did you know he was taken 199th overall?!?!?!?
Not going to lie, I wish I was rich enough to throw away my
socks after wearing them only once too.
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
TCS
As long as you don't throw away Twin City socks. Those socks make angels cry.
Is it sad that when I glance
Is it sad that when I glance at the board, even after I open the thread, my brain sees "Brady" before "Tom Brady" and I automatically assume its about Lloyd Brady.
I even read the whole thing and thought "Wow, Lloyd Brady must be rich" until I actually read the name Tom.
#MGoProblems
Not sad at all
When I interviewed Tom in my dream the other night he admitted to having a Fathead of Lloyd Brady on his bedroom wall. It was like a Barbara Walters moment between Tom and I.
"I'm not a vegetarian b/c I love animals. I'm a vegetarian b/c I hate plants"
You gotta love late
night MGoBoard comments.
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
Ahhh, yes
Ahhh, yes.
My sources at ESPN tell me you should expect the 12 Things You Didn't Know About Lloyd Brady article to hit news stands early next week.
Article?
I see nothing less than a treatise.
Oops, my bad
Oops, that was actually a typo. The formal name of the article is actually 1200 Things You Didn't Know About Lloyd Brady
Sorry for any confusion.
I thought Six Zero
Already wrote that.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
Wow Tom Brady and I shared a
Wow Tom Brady and I shared a dream
My dream is to also have a new pair of socks every day for the rest of my life.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -Mahatma Gandhi
Must be thinking about those wool socks that the team gets every friday
/ThreeAndOut'd
ESPN is really stretching for
ESPN is really stretching for things to put on their front page
I was
11 and I knew about Brady.
Memory
I'm 67 and became a Michigan fan in 1958 when my brother enrolled at Michigan, so yes I remember Tom Brady..I believe Bob Ptacek was the QB that year, but I can assure you I don't remember him
OMG
Couldn't help but notice...
that all of the respondents at @1AM are 24ish years old...and the ones at the crack of dawn are 60ish.
Not completely true
Not completely true...I'm 21!
Although the only reason I'm up this early (late?) is because I'm just getting finished with homework.
He also likes...
...to dress up like a pirate.
"Look, our helmets got wings."
And Superheroes
And I hear religious figures too, but that gets him into some trouble...
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
My tom brady memory was when
My tom brady memory was when I saw him and the rest of the team when I was a kid in miami for the orange bowl. cool story bruh
"It was November 22nd, 1969, that they came to bury Michigan, all dressed in Maize and Blue... The words were said, the prayers were read and everybody cried. But when they closed the coffin there was someone else inside..."
I should have know when the Ugg's were a big thing
The article was written by a woman.
I wonder if he did the "Babe" think before he got to Michigan. The video coordinator likes to call people "babe" too. Wonder if he picked it up from him, or already did it.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
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Im 25 and a long time michigan fan, but i really cant recall much about tom brady's days at michigan. Wonder if that is normal