The GOAT is furious.
Tom Brady wasted no time in expressing his frustration towards the officiating in Super Bowl LIX.
X/@NFLONFOXBrady (left) and Kevin Burkhardt (right) are Fox’s number one broadcast team[/caption]
It’s been an up and down first year for the seven-time Super Bowl champion in the broadcast booth.
And while Brady has improved significantly since calling his first game in Week 1, he is nowhere near perfect, partially due to the restrictions placed on him as a broadcaster and minority owner with the Las Vegas Raiders.
However, those restrictions were taken down for the Super Bowl, which was evident during the first quarter of Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, when he lamented the officials and criticized a call.
Something he was not previously allowed to do.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts unleashed a go ball to wide receiver A.J. Brown on fourth-and-two from midfield.
Brown caught the ball but was called for offensive pass interference.
A questionable call at best.
“Don’t like that one bit,” Brady said.
“It’s too critical of a game.
“You let the players play and it should be decided on the field.”
With over 100 million people watching, a couple million took notice.
And raced to the internet.
‘Oh my goodness they called that a PI, a slight touch of the shoulder pad without it impeding the defender in any way,’ Chad Johnson wrote on X.
‘Fantastic start for a league tying to avoid ref-related conspiracy theories,’ one fan wrote.
‘I’m glad the NFL spent all week saying that the officiating wouldn’t be a problem! Surely it won’t be,’ another fan chimed in.
Fox signed Brady to a 10-year, $375 million deal and has certainly reaped the good and the bad so far.
It pays to have the greatest football player of all time in your booth, as an employee of your company.
But it also pays to have to go through the growing pains that Brady has gone through.
Even when the spotlight is the biggest and brightest.
On Super Bowl LIX.
In Brady’s defense, the restrictions have made it hard on him to do the job at an elite level.
However, there were no excuses for Brady on Sunday, as those certain restrictions were lifted for him due to the Super Bowl and the special circumstances surrounding the league’s biggest game.
Apparently that Brady was ready to criticize the officials, seeing as it took less than five minutes to do so.
And he did he did it in style.
Brady was wearing a Jacob & Co. Caviar Tourbillon watch for his first Super Bowl as a broadcaster.
A watch that is worth reportedly anywhere between $600k-$800k.
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