That didn’t take long.
Tom Brady is calling his first postseason game, and less than 10 seconds into the game he was facing an unusual call.
On the opening kick off, Green Bay Packers kick returner, Keisean Nixon, fumbled the ball due to a hit that was appeared a clear helmet to helmet contact
Brady didn’t think so.
“Good, clean hit,” Brady said.
“Right on the ball.”
He repeated that sentiment over and over again, while replays clearly showed that it was a helmet to helmet hit.
It didn’t take long for social media to pounce.
After an already a rough first year in the broadcast booth – the first season of a $375million 10-year deal with FOX Sports – fans seem to be fed up.
‘Tom Brady “ perfect hit on the ball” while replay was an obvious helmet to helmet. Another announcer unwilling to speak against the shield,’ one fan posted on X.
‘I really just want Tom Brady to go away,’ another fan chimed in.
The hits and vitriol hate on Brady’ commentary, kept coming.
‘tom brady’s commentary sounds like he’s reading it off a teleprompter,’ and ‘Tom Brady is the worst announcer I’ve ever heard’ as the criticism kept coming.
Brady’s first year in the booth, alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt will end in New Orleans as FOX have the rights to Super Bowl LIX.
There’s plenty of room to grow and to learn but for $37.5m a season it’s an unforgiving school as the reaction to his latest questionable call illustrates.
Unfortunately for Brady, that wasn’t his only mistake.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion stumbled along with other glaring errors throughout the game.
He referred to Packers running back, Josh Jacobs, as Brandon Jacobs, but quickly caught his slip-up and corrected himself.
Brady also called the Eagles, the Phillies at one point.
He came across as nervous and sounded like he was full of jitters.
The former star quarterback has two more games after this one, before the biggest stage in American sports arrives.
For everyone’s sake, Brady better hopes he irons it all out, because if not, it could get real ugly.
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