If you want to read an article that is negative towards Tom Brady, then you’ve clicked on the wrong article. I am in no way a fan of the New England Patriots. I also don’t hate them either; they’re just another team to me. I feel compelled to write this article, however, because every year it’s the same thing: So much hatred and disrespect for Tom Brady from people after the AFC Championship game or the Super Bowl. Like pretty much every other sports fan, I watched the Patriots-Chiefs AFC title game last night. It was a great game with a lot of action, but I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about all the disrespect and hatred towards Tom Brady on internet comment boards and social media. For a long time I couldn’t understand why he was so hated. It’s not like he’s a bad person or terrible role model. But now I finally get it. There’s one reason, and just one reason, why so many people hate him: jealousy.

Tom Brady has had an extremely successful NFL career. He’s won five Super Bowls (with an upcoming chance at six), nine AFC Championships, three MVPs, and many other accolades. All he does is win, and he’s proved he does that better than any quarterback in the history of the game. You can say he’s just a “system qb” and he wouldn’t have half of those wins if he didn’t play for Bill Belichick, but that’s a totally different argument for another article. It is a fact that Tom Brady wins football games. The problem is the more he wins, the more people hate him. There’s a difference in not pulling for the Patriots simply because you are tired of them winning and you want to see a new team in the Super Bowl, and rooting against them because you have a deep hatred for Brady. Just wanting to see a new team win is completely understandable and fine, because as an unbiased football fan, I would agree that seeing different teams in the Super Bowl would be refreshing. But most people seem to pull against the Patriots because they flat out hate their quarterback.

When you really think about it, there’s many players in the NFL who are simply not good people and make it easy to pull against. There are selfish and egotistical players, players who get in trouble with the law, players who violate the league’s substance abuse policy, players who are just about the money, players who are/have been abusive, and players who are just overall bad role models for the millions of children who look up to them. Tom Brady is none of those things. He is someone who quietly goes about his business of trying to win as many football games as he can. Let’s compare him to LeVeon Bell and Antonio Brown. Those are two players that have made it easy to root against because they both quit on the Pittsburgh Steelers this year. They made it all about themselves, rather than winning a Super Bowl with their team. But you won’t find nowhere near the amount of hate for those players as Tom Brady receives because they haven’t won as much as Tom Brady has.

If you are a fan of another NFL team and you hate Tom Brady, then it’s because you’re jealous. You’re jealous he isn’t your team’s starting quarterback. You’re jealous your team doesn’t have five Super Bowls in the last 18 years with nine Conference championships in that same time span. If Brady was your team’s starting quarterback, you would love him. It has always confused me as to why sports fans are so quick to hate great players. Or just with life in general, people are so quick to want to scrutinize anybody or anything that is great. People who are great in life have undoubtedly committed so much of their lives to be great, and even more time to stay great. Then, others who don’t devote the time and effort it takes to be great at something in life quickly get jealous at those who do and try to bring them down to their level. That’s the case with Tom Brady. You may not like him. I’m not saying you even have to like him. But you HAVE TO respect him as an athlete. The many people who flat out hate him, don’t respect him either. If you are one of those people, then keep doing you’re thing, but know you are just making yourself look very foolish. He is a living legend and there’s nothing you can say to change that fact.

Garett

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