Now, Tom Brady truly has reached the pinnacle. At least in the eyes of his video game-loving son.
To the joy of 9-year-old Jack Brady, the five-time Super Bowl champion will be the cover athlete for Madden 18 , following his Patriots teammate and buddy Rob Gronkowski.
“I think it is very cool,” Brady said. “I grew up not far from the headquarters of EA Sports and some of my neighbors and best friends worked there. And we hung out at the gym they built in the facility where a lot of the 49ers would go. To be a fan of the game and play it over the years, it is really a cool honor, so when the opportunity was presented to me, it was something I would not turn down.”
Asked if this will put him in the same celebrity realm as Gronk, Brady laughed.
“Nobody has more fun than him,” Brady said of the star tight end who was injured for the team’s championship run last season. “He is such a great player and it’s great for him to experience some of the cool things that come along with being in the NFL.”
Gronkowski’s absence for half of the 2016 season could have given his quarterback pause about accepting the cover role. After all, there’s talk of a Madden Curse.
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