Tom Brady is a footnote in new University of Michigan football book
A handsome coffee-table size, hardcover book that tells the rich history of football at the University of Michigan comes out Aug. 1. However, a certain Hall of Fame-bound QB who’s won three Super Bowls — and is married to the world’s most famous supermodel and has appeared on the cover of hundreds of national magazines — is mentioned on one page, in a few small paragraphs, with no photo. How can that be? Isn’t it an insult to our boy Tom Brady? No, not if you consider that Brady was Brian Griese’s backup during the Wolverines’ 1997 national championship season, and then barely won the starting job from Drew Henson
. That’s why TB wasn’t drafted until the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. The book, “Michigan Football: A History of the Nation’s Winningest Program,’’ does include this line about the 2000 Orange Bowl, when Michigan beat Alabama in OT, 35-34: “Not surprisingly, it was Tom Brady, the senior leader who fought tooth-and-nail just to earn the starting job, who delivered the win.’’
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