Apparently, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal is a big fan of NFL icon Tom Brady and is very impressed with the football champ’s career resume.
In fact, he was so impressed that he commented on Brady’s success with his former team the New England Patriots, where he won six Super Bowls in a span of 20 years, and how he was able to go to another franchise and lead them to the big game during his first year as the team’s starting quarterback.
From Fox News:
O’Neal, who will be hosting his own Super Bowl pre-game show called “The Shaq Bowl” next weekend, thinks the Patriots did Brady “dirty” at the end of their historical run, and he loves that the future Hall of Fame QB is sticking it to his old team by leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2002.
“The way he came in … this is his 10th Super Bowl and [to] play with a franchise and then the franchise kinda [says], ‘Oh, you’re old, bye!’ and he said ‘Okay, you don’t wanna take care of me, after all, I did for this city? Watch this!’
“[Then he] goes to another a city, promises them a Super Bowl and delivers??? Wooo!!!” O’Neal said via TMZ Sports.
“He’s been playing fabulous,” O’Neal added.
Brady isn’t the only player O’Neal feels was left high and dry. Leonard Fournette was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars over the summer and received some sound advice from the NBA star after being signed with the Buccaneers.
“They did him kinda dirty in Jacksonville,” said O’Neal. “I had a conversation with him. I told him to keep his head up. So, when he was going to Tampa I said, ‘Hey, man, this is your chance to let everybody know they were wrong about you.’”
