As the game started to slip away from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a play by Tom Brady had many viewers up in arms. During the second quarter, when Dallas Cowboys safety Malik Hooker recovered a fumble, Brady slid at Hooker’s feet and appeared to attempt to trip him, per the New York Post. Dan LeBatard caught the play immediately and tweeted a clip of the incident, which drew attention to the slide. Plenty of others took issue with the quarterback’s seemingly dirty tackle attempt. “It appears as if Tom’s still very spry … sick slide tackle ankle kick here,” Pat McAfee tweeted.
Fans wasted little time piling on Brady with a barrage of tweets, as many believed the seven-time Super Bowl champion had acted out of frustration. “#TomBrady may be the GOAT but he’s also kind of a punk,” one Twitter user wrote. “Why did I just see @TomBrady intentionally try to trip a guy after a fumble return,” another tweeted. “Tom Brady is dirty as f*** btw,” one viewer simply stated. Charles McDonald of Yahoo! Sports tweeted that he believed the league could issue Brady a fine.
A fine for this sort of play would not be unprecedented for the decorated quarterback. A decade earlier, Brady was slapped with a $10,000 fine for a similar play during the AFC Championship game when he stuck his cleats into a player’s thigh while sliding. In October 2022, Brady was fined for kicking another player after he was sacked.
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