Travis Scott has jumped ahead to get his hands on Tom Brady baseball cards. As “Brady Day” approaches on December 12, in honor of the number he wore during his playing career, Topps is releasing collectibles featuring the quarterback wearing a baseball uniform.
Michael Rubin, owner of Fanatics, the parent company of Topps, revealed that the Montreal Expos drafted Brady as a catcher in 1995. The football star chose to forego that opportunity and instead joined Michigan to play quarterback. From there he was drafted by the New England Patriots and the rest is history.
But the alternate history is fun to think about. And Topps is doing just that, with Brady wearing an Expos uniform on the latest cards to debut on ‘Brady Day’. One of the cards signed by the GOAT reads:
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“If baseball doesn’t work out, there’s always football.”
Travis Scott wants a card while Tom Brady hypes the baseball card for ‘Brady Day’
Tom Brady responded to the post on Instagram with his own comment, saying:
“I want that card!!!”
However, the quarterback only admitted that he wanted to. Travis Scott, on the other hand, said he needed it, writing:
“I need that”
Tom Brady can laugh about it now
Tom Brady can post all these tongue-in-cheek comments after a successful 20+ year career in the NFL. But there may have been a time when he could have regretted his choice to pass up MLB.
Last year, his resume showed he was left out as he fell to the sixth round of the NFL Draft. His college football experience was relegated to the bottom as he attempted to climb the corporate ladder.
Even when he was drafted, he had to sit behind Drew Bledsoe, the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots and former first overall pick. It wasn’t until his sophomore year, when Bledsoe was injured against the New York Jets, that he got a chance to come in and become the starter.
He jumped at the chance to win the Super Bowl and establish himself. Baseball’s loss turned out to be football’s gain, as it was the best player to ever play the sport. But with certain decisions made by him and others, his career could have ended so differently, and there would have been no ‘Brady Day’ to celebrate.