Tom Brady: American Icon

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of Quick Slants The Podcast, Tom E. Curran talks with three members of the national media - The Ringers Kevin Clark, Mike Florio and Jim Rome, plus Patriots Hall of Famer Tedy bruschi about the legacy of Tom Brady as an American Icon in the world of sports and society. He's gone from unheralded Cinderella to being labeled as a cheater. From 3rd string backup to one of the most famous people in the world with an equally famous supermodel wife.

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0:22.6	Hey, today on Quickslance the podcast, going to go a little bit different.
0:26.7	No Mayo, but I have four guests.
0:29.4	And what the idea behind this is, is trying to take the measure of Tom Brady in what he means,
0:36.1	not as a football player, not even as a cultural
0:39.5	icon, but what he means to America, how he's woven himself into the tapestry of our country's
0:44.6	history. And the reason I do this is when you look at the numbers that he's amassed, and you look
0:50.4	at the championships, and you look at the record over 20 years, which is basically
0:54.8	a generation of American life.
0:58.2	How do we regard Tom Brady?
0:59.9	Is he a Babe Ruth?
1:02.4	Is he a Muhammad Ali?
1:04.8	Is he a Michael Jordan?
1:06.5	Is he a Tiger Woods?
1:07.6	Wayne Gretzky?
1:08.8	How has he risen to our national consciousness?
1:12.0	What does he represent?
1:13.7	And has what he has represented been a straight line consistency?
1:18.4	I think we would all agree, no.
1:19.7	He's changed over the course of time in the public consciousness based upon what the team has realized
1:24.9	and what he has come to represent in the public consciousness.
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