It hasn’t been the easiest transition from the field to the broadcast booth for the greatest football player in history. For Tom Brady, the flubs and stumbles continued in his first ever playoff game.
Brady, who is set to be the color commentator alongside play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt for Super Bowl LIX, was roasted over the coals of the internet for a mistake that he made during the NFC Wild Card game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
With time winding down on the first half of the game – and the Eagles up 10-0 – Brady decided to praise a play call from Philadelphia.
Unfortunately for him, he had a bit of a slip of the tongue and said the name of the baseball team from the City of Brotherly Love, rather than the football team.
‘[You have] three timeouts, so you’d have a couple plays. But I like this call by the Phillies… excuse me, by Philly,’ Brady said on the air.
Brady also mixed up the name of Packers running back Josh Jacobs – calling him Brandon Jacobs instead.
Tom Brady was trolled on social media after making a gaffe on the air in an NFL playoff game
Brady accidentally called the Eagles the ‘Phillies’ instead – referring to the baseball team
Brady also flubbed Packers running back Josh Jacobs’ (8) name, calling him Brandon Jacobs
Brandon Jacobs is a retired NFL halfback, who was best known for winning two Super Bowls with the New York Giants – beating Brady both times.
Fans on social media eviscerated Brady, saying that he and Burkhardt should be replaced by the ‘No. 2’ Fox broadcast team of Joe Davis and Greg Olsen.
The ‘No. 2’ team of Davis/Olsen was voted the Best NFL Broadcast Team of 2024 in a poll of over 2,400 fans conducted by sports media site Awful Announcing. Burkhardt/Brady came 14th out of 25 broadcast teams.
‘Maybe Brady’s not cut out for broadcasting,’ wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter.
