The Tom Brady show took center stage during the Dallas Cowboys‘ 33-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Ultimately, it was the all-time great quarterback’s first broadcasting gig. Still, not everyone was fooled by the fanfare.
One player, Cam Newton, put it this way: “The league is pushing Brady on football fans.” Similar to what happened with Taylor Swift the previous year (his words, not ours).
The former quarterback for the Carolina Panthers stated on his 4th & 1 podcast that he felt TB12’s broadcast debut was excessive.
Cam Newton on Tom Brady being this year’s Taylor Swift
Newton compared the NFL’s unrelenting advertising of Travis Kelce’s girlfriend’s presence at Kansas City Chiefs games in 2023 to the cameras’ overemphasis on Brady’s grand entrance. Newton said :
“Is Tom Brady this year’s Taylor Swift? Why is the NFL just pushing Tom Brady on us like this?…Every time you looked up, it was Taylor Swift. I couldn’t watch the damn Kansas City Chiefs game without seeing Taylor Swift…I probably saw her two to three times.”
He went so far as to wonder why Brady is receiving the same treatment as other well-known pundits like Greg Olsen, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Tony Romo, and Stephen A. Smith. In addition, Newton made fun of Brady’s well-known slogan, “Let’s F***ing Go!” the former Patriots player was known for yelling to teammates during game days.
Newton also joked about whether the NFL would eventually create a unique “LFG Award” exclusively for the Hall of Famer. Newton made it apparent that the NFL might be celebrating Brady’s historic debut as a Fox Sports Analyst too much, even if he knows the quarterback is the GOAT. He said, “It’s a little extra on the sauce.”
