Tom Brady: A Brief Biography

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Tom Brady was born on August 3, 1977. When Tom hit high school, he excelled in the sports football and baseball. After Tom graduated in the year 1995, he decided to pass up the opportunity to go straight to the professional level and play football and attend Michigan University and play for their football team and get an education. In Brady’s first two years of college he spent minimal time on the football field. During his junior season, Tom threw for over 2,500 yards on 350 attempts. The following year Tom helped his team to an Orange Bowl victory. When Tom graduated from the University of Michigan, he was drafted in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. In Tom’s rookie season he served as a full time backup and only played in one game in the …show more content…

In Tom’s second year, Patriots’ starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe got injured. Tom immediately took over the team and took them to a Super Bowl and received the MVP for the game. All was going good for Brady until the 2008 season when he suffered a severe knee injury that benched him for the whole season. Many worried that this injury would be the end for Tom Brady but he was back for the next season. In 2011, Tom Brady made the headlines by making it to another Super Bowl. Even though Tom lost the game he still became popular to many and hated by even more. By 2016, Brady had another two rings under his belt and was preparing for another big season. While this was happening, Brady had to miss the first four games due to the “deflategate” case. When Brady returned he put up big numbers and returned to the Championship. The Patriots played to Atlanta Falcons and by the second half, Brady and the Patriots were losing by twenty-five points. When the second half started Brady pulled something historic and came back

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