Not even the great Tom Brady is safe from the embarrassments of hazing. During the telecast of “The Match” last Sunday, the six-time Super Bowl champion, formerly of the New England Patriots, shared a hilarious tale of Drew Bledsoe having a little fun at his expense.
“Yeah, when I was a rookie we had a lot of rookie pranks,” recalled Brady via NESN. “And we went out for practice one day, we had this loop where we put our laundry after practice so it’s washed for the next day. And when I got my loop the next day there were no socks in it. So I went to the equipment manager and said, ‘I needed new socks.’ So he gave me a pair of socks. And Drew Bledsoe had put this purple dye, it was like a powder, in my sock.”
“So I had practiced for two hours and I looked down at one point in practice and the purple started seeping through the shoes,” Brady continued. “And I said, ‘What the hell is going on with my shoes?’ Well, I got in the locker room and I had to peel my socks off of my feet. And I had this dark purple stain, my feet looked like Barney the Dinosaur for three weeks and man I scrubbed as hard as I could. I think I scrubbed with Clorox and just about anything else. But I finally got it off.”
Brady was later asked if he attempted to pull off a prank of his own targeting his predecessor with the Patriots.
“I learned at a young age when people have a lot more money than you, you don’t prank back,” said a joking Brady. “You just accept it and you move on.”
Of course, Brady would later earn his stripes by spending the next 19 seasons as the Patriots’ main guy. His stature, in Brady’s opinion, would be enough to warrant playing some jokes on his unsuspecting teammates.
“Fortunately, I had a few rookies when I was a little older and I had a couple more bucks in my pocket so they were on the butt end of a few pranks of mine.”
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