How Tom Brady’s career as the NFL’s greatest player ever took root in the Bay Area
Long before he hoisted seven Super Bowl trophies, earned five Super Bowl MVP awards and began the two-decade process of rewriting the NFL record books, Tom Brady was the pride of Serra High.
After 22 NFL seasons including 20 with the Patriots, Brady leaves in a style most athletes only dream about. In his final season, the most accomplished player in league history, had a career-best 5,316 passing yards and led the league in touchdown passes with 43. Brady won the Super Bowl in three of the first four seasons he started for the Patriots after taking over in his second season for an injured Drew Bledsoe. For the next 15 years, the Patriots were the NFL’s most dominant team — with Brady as their charming but cold-blooded face.
Eric Byrnes, the former major league baseball player, was a high school rival at St. Francis and once sacked Brady three times in a football game.“He was one of the best high school baseball players I saw,” Byrnes told Fox Sports 1. “He hit one of the furthest home runs that I ever saw hit in a high school game, it was across the street at St. Francis.”
“We were looking for a guy who was going to replace Steve Young,” former 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci told KNBR in January. “An athletic kind of guy, and that’s the way we kind of wanted to play football with that West Coast offense. Tom was kind of a drop-back category for us and we were looking more for the athletic kind of quarterbacks.”
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