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Jody MurrayIt appears Tom Brady has a stunted grasp of sports history.
A company that manages Brady’s financial matters recently filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to lock down a nickname for the New England Patriots quarterback. It would be trademarked for trading cards, posters, printed photos and other Brady-related merchandise.
None of that matters, of course. Seaver remains the only Terrific Tom. The news of the trademark application by Brady’s TEB Capital Management is doubly cringe-worthy because Seaver’s family announced in March that he is suffering from dementia and would retire from public life. Seaver is 74.
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“Can you imagine Brady, being aware of that sad news about this giant of a sports hero, deciding nonetheless to go ahead and take that man’s well-known nickname as his own so he could become wealthier off it?” Brennan wrote. “There is absolutely nothing terrific about that.”Hoover’s Hernandez Exemplifies the True Value of High School Sports
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