As soon as the schedule came out on Wednesday, the one game everybody saw and had circled immediately was Tom Brady making his return to play against the one team in the league he has never faced: The New England Patriots.
Tickets for the Oct. 3 game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England Patriots will be a hot ticket and some of those are are available on the resale market for almost $9,000.
Bleacher Report’s Master Tesfatsion provided a look:
The Week 4 clash between them will be a primetime game on NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
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Brady spent the first two decades of his career in New England, but shocked everybody when he actually announced he was leaving the team in free agency in 2020.
Belichick released a statement after Brady confirmed he was gone:
“Tom and I will always have a great relationship built on love, admiration, respect and appreciation. Tom’s success as a player and his character as a person are exceptional. Nothing about the end of Tom’s Patriots career changes how unfathomably spectacular it was. With his relentless competitiveness and longevity, he earned everyone’s adoration and will be celebrated forever. It has been a privilege to coach Tom Brady for 20 years.”
Brady was asked about the relationship leading up to the Super Bowl in February:
“I have a great relationship with him. Again, I’m just incredibly grateful for what he’s meant in my life as a coach. He was everything you could ask for as a player. I loved my time, I had two incredible decades there. My football journey took me to a different place. …
“I certainly could never have accomplished the things in my career without his support and his teachings. He’s an incredible coach and mentor for me. I’ve had a lot of those in my career, but obviously he’s at the top of the list.”
