Within the Sunday sport that noticed the Buccaneers pitched in opposition to the Chicago Bears, Brady threw his 600th profession landing cross to fellow teammate Mike Evans — the best variety of landing passes by a single participant in your entire historical past of NFL. Evans having no prior data of the importance of the ball, handed it off to the fan carrying a jersey with Evans’ namesake.
The gesture by Tom Brady, too little or an excessive amount of?
Founding father of sports activities memorabilia public sale firm Goldin Auctions, Ken Goldin has given an trace concerning the price of the ball. Taking to his twitter web page, he said the ball may very well be value any quantity between $500,000 to $900,000.
At first, many thought that Kennedy had been performed a quick one when it appeared to have given up the ball on some false hopes of a attainable hangout with the quarterback. Nevertheless, Brady later revealed on Monday Night time Soccer that he had provided to offer the fan 1 Bitcoin (BTC) as a ‘thanks for giving it again’. As on the time of penning this report, that’s about $62,494.
Brady had tweeted to @FTXOfficial on Monday, to get Kennedy a Bitcoin.
Curiously, that’s not all that Kennedy shall be getting. In accordance with Tampa Bay Instances reporter Rick Stroud, the Buccaneers have additionally agreed to difficulty out 2 signed group jerseys to Kennedy. He’ll even be getting a helmet with Brady’s autograph, Mike Evans sport cleats, and a jersey signed by him, season tickets for the remainder of 2021 and your entire 2022, in addition to $1,000 credit score in direction of purchases to be made on the group’s retailer.
Even with all of those aforementioned presents, many nonetheless imagine that Kennedy’s compensation is nowhere close to that of the historic soccer.
Brady stays considered one of {many professional} sportsmen who’ve brazenly supported crypto. He has launched his personal NFT platform referred to as Autograph, and obtained tokens as a part of an endorsement deal he had with crypto trade FTX.