Thomas Edward Brady, Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After playing college football at Michigan, Brady was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.
Due to his strong performances both in the regular season and the postseason (1 NFL MVP, 2 Super Bowl MVPs), Brady is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of his era. He has played in four Super Bowls, winning three of them (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX). He has also won two Super Bowl MVP awards (XXXVI and XXXVIII), has been invited to four Pro Bowls, and holds the NFL record for most touchdown passes in a single regular season. Brady was named as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, in 2005. He also helped set the record for the longest consecutive win streak in NFL history with 21 straight wins over two seasons.
In 2007, he became the first quarterback to lead a team to a 16-0 regular season. He was named "Sportsman of the Year" by The Sporting News for the second time in his career. He was also named the NFL MVP, as well as Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, the first time he has received that honor, and the first time an NFL player has been honored since Joe Montana won in 1990.
Tom Brady is a director, writer and producer. His movies include the Rob Schneider vehicles The Hot Chick and The Animal. His television writing credits include work for The Critic, Sports Night, The Simpsons and Home Improvement. He is an alumnus of Harvard and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Tom Brady wrote, acted in and directed many productions at Harvard College, where, strangely enough, his honors thesis was entitled "The Human Animal". Brady went on to earn an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Hawaii. Brady has written and produced television shows such as "Critic, The" (1994), "Simpsons, The" (1989), "Home Improvement" (1991) and "Sports Night" (1998) as well as the feature film, Animal, The (2001), with Rob Schneider (I).
