Tom Brady offered NFL fans an interesting “what if” while calling Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles.
Brady – currently the lead NFL color commentator for Fox – revealed that he almost joined the Chicago Bears as a free agent in 2020 instead of signing with the Bucs.
“There was a lot of reasons to choose Tampa, and I made 18 criteria why,” Brady explained. “And there were things all the way from the salary, obviously, to the weather, to the facilities, to how great the players were.
“Ultimately, Chicago was a team – and I’ve never told that story before – they were very stealth in their recruitment, I was seriously considering them. But in the end, it came down to Tampa, and it was close to my son Jack, and I love (former head coach) Bruce Arians.”
