Tom Brady became the archetypal subordinate in NFL past to person thrown 600 touchdown passes successful his vocation during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rout of the Chicago Bears connected Sunday.
The 44-year-old, already the league's all-time person successful passing yards (81,479), connected with Mike Evans with six seconds near successful the archetypal 4th for a nine-yard touchdown to scope the landmark.
He finished the time with 4 touchdowns successful the Bucs ascendant 38-3 triumph implicit the Bears, bringing his full touchdown fig to 602.
However, alternatively of letting Brady support the shot to people that history-making infinitesimal arsenic is emblematic successful the NFL, Evans unwittingly gave it to a fortunate adjacent fan.
According to CBS' Tracy Wolfson, aft immoderate dialog with the fan, they agreed to swap that shot for different shot and "some benignant of signed jersey.
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"It was Brady's 97th crippled with three-plus touchdown passes and his 37th crippled with 4 oregon more, some of those marks tied with Drew Brees for tops successful NFL history.
For Brady though, it arguably wasn't the infinitesimal of the day.
As the crippled ticked down with the effect wrapped up for Brady and the Bucs, helium jogged implicit to the sideline to talk to a young instrumentality who during the lucifer had been holding up a motion which read: "Tom Brady helped maine bushed encephalon cancer."
Brady enactment 1 of his hats connected the young fans' caput and shook his hand. The emotion of the infinitesimal proved each excessively overmuch for the fan, who buried his caput successful his hands arsenic the tears began to flow.
"That was truly sweet. Obviously, pugnacious kid, man," Brady said erstwhile asked astir it successful his property league aft the win.
"Puts a batch successful position with what we're doing connected the field; successful the extremity it doesn't mean overmuch compared to what truthful galore spell through. We each effort to marque a quality successful antithetic ways and I deliberation truthful galore guys perpetrate times to their foundations and to doing bully things for the world.
"And the NFL does a batch of large things, truthful it's conscionable bully to -- I ever deliberation you cognize bash the champion that you tin do, nether immoderate circumstance. It was bully to see."
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