FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — It’s been 633 days since Tom Brady played an NFL game in New England. He trudged off the field on Jan. 4, 2020, after a playoff loss to…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — It’s been 633 days since Tom Brady played an NFL game in New England. He trudged off the field on Jan.4,2020, after a playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans, a rare loser in the place he helped to hoist six Super Bowl championship banners. But remnants from his 20-year run with the Patriots remain everywhere in Foxborough. Brady’s No.12 Patriots jerseys still dot the stands on game days at Gillette Stadium. Viewership in the Boston market topped that of Tampa for the Bucs’ Super Bowl win last season, and New England fans continue to huddle in bars to tune in for Brady’s games in droves through the first three weeks of this season. With Brady’s new Tampa home just as rabid about the player who brought it a championship in Year 1, it’s created a tug of war between the fan bases as he gets set to return to the place where his career began. “As a fan, I think this is one of the greatest moments in Boston sports history,” said Jermaine Wiggins, a tight end for the Patriots’ first championship team in 2001 and a radio personality for Boston’s WEEI. “I still haven’t been able to get over it since he left here. I never thought I’d see it coming where he’d be wearing another uniform. I don’t think anybody would have ever thought that five years ago. “No matter how bad people might have said (Brady and Belichick’s) relationship was, I think we all felt like it would have all got worked out.
