Brady over-shadowing past heroes
The legend of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is
getting bigger than that of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster
combined.
Brady over-shadowing past heroes
The legend of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is getting bigger than that of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster combined.
I mentioned this in an article early last year about the growing legend of Tom Brady and how his stats were already arguably better than Joe Montana.
For a writer in this neck of the woods to come out and make such a bold statement can be dangerous. But as I said a year ago, the shadow that Brady’s casting on the game is getting longer and longer with each passing day. And it just stretched out another mile with the win in San Diego on Sunday.
A few years ago he was in the shadow of Montana, his childhood hero, but now his own shadow is equally as long and may dwarf the guy who put 49ers football on the map as the months and years go by.
Think about this – if the Patriots win the Super Bowl this year, the kid from San Mateo will have four Super Bowl wins to his credit before the age of 30 – and his career could go another 10 seasons!
He’s this era’s version of Montana the same way that Peyton Manning is this era’s version of Dan Marino.
Statistically, nobody ever looked better on paper than Marino or Manning, but Montana and Brady are the ones walking around with all the Super Bowl rings, which is all that really counts when all is said and done.
The thing that gets me and every other 49er fan out there sick is that Brady wanted nothing more than to be a 49er. But instead of taking Brady – who by the way wasn’t drafted until the sixth round, 199th overall! – the Niners opted to fill their quarterbacking needs in 2000 by selecting Giovanni Carmazzi in the third round.
I hate to live in the past but had the Niners signed the local kid, they would have gone Montana, Young and Brady, without missing a beat and would probably be working on their ninth Super Bowl title at this point.
But enough about blown draft picks.
I would like to say that a 49er move to Santa Clara by the 2012 season would surely be welcome news for 49er fans that reside in the Hollister area. Saving 45 minutes of drive time to and from the stadium would certainly boost season ticket sales for those of us living down this way and would excite us to come out and attend more games.
One other thing regarding this stadium issue… I get a kick out of hearing that any attempt by the Yorks to move the team to Santa Clara near the team’s headquarters would ignite a slew of lawsuits from San Franciscans that are furious over the fact that the team plans to move to Santa Clara yet keep its same name: the San Francisco 49ers.
I’ve heard stories that officials in San Francisco County have threatened that they wouldn’t allow the name “San Francisco” to be a part of the team’s official name if the move takes place.
That’s interesting and all but it’s almost hilarious when you learn that most of the teams in the NFL don’t play in the same city as their namesake. The Dallas Cowboys would be the Irving Cowboys and so on and so forth. And I’m quite certain the city of Dallas never threatened to sue the Cowboys for playing in Irving while pasting the word Dallas over its mountainous piles of merchandise.
Heck you’d think the city of San Francisco would be thrilled with the idea. They’d get all the publicity but not the headache. Then again, it’s all about tax revenue anyway; and when big money is involved, you can bet the fight will be long and drawn out.
Hang on to your hats because this one could get ugly as the process moves forward.
