Tom Brady’s locker room chair is a funny talking point among the Patriots
When the Patriots locker room is tidied at the end of each day, there’s one thing that doesn’t get stowed away: Tom Brady’s chair.
The quarterback’s seat is the only one of its kind in the team’s space, but by no means is it anything revolutionary. Brady’s throne is just a typical desk chair. But its blue cushions and sturdy arm rests have garnered some attention from his teammates, who all sit on Patriots-branded metal folding chairs.
“When he first got it, we all gave him a hard time, asking ‘Why do you have that?’ And he’d be like, ‘It’s comfortable. I’m getting old,'” running back James White told ESPN’s Mike Reiss.
According to Brady, his teammates’ seats predate every player on New England’s roster except him, as the 40-year-old is the only active member of the team to have also played at Foxboro Stadium prior to Gillette Stadium’s opening in 2002. He told Reiss that their chairs are “like 17 years old” and “original to the stadium.”
Waves of nostalgia weren’t powerful enough to convince Brady to sit on one of the quaint metal seats, however, as his current selection rolled into the locker room a few months ago.
“The only person who can get a chair like that is the guy that’s 40 years old,” safety Duron Harmon said, via Reiss. “We have to make sure his back stays straight and doesn’t get locked up.”
“We pick at him all the time, but that’s the only thing we can really pick at, because he’s the greatest quarterback ever,” Harmon continued, adding that he refers to it as the “grandpa chair.”
A number of Brady’s other teammates chimed in as well, including Julian Edelman, Devin McCourty, and Danny Amendola — who called it “the king’s chair.” Although they all enjoy teasing their quarterback, it’s all fun and games at the end of the day,
“Anybody that’s playing at the age of 40, in his 18th season, with all he’s accomplished, can sit in whatever he wants to sit in,” fellow captain Matthew Slater said.
