Tom Brady’s ‘ultimate’ profession landing ball sells for over $518,000 at public sale

Two days after the public sale closed, alternatively, the 44-year-old quarterback introduced that he could be returning for his twenty third season within the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, following a six-week retirement.

The $518,000 ball featured all through the Buccaneers’ house playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams on January 23.

Instantly after the sport, Brady used to be nonetheless unsure about his long term taking part in profession. When he introduced his retirement every week later, it gave the ball additional importance because it become what used to be then regarded as his ultimate profession landing ball.

Reasonably than being preserved in a museum, the ball had reached the general public area as a result of Evans had tossed it into the stands in birthday celebration the place it used to be stuck by means of a fortunate spectator. Lelands used marks and numbers at the ball to photograph fit it and test its authenticity.

Final yr, Lelands additionally auctioned Brady’s first profession landing ball for $428,841 which used to be in a similar fashion tossed into the stands by means of the receiver who stuck it, Terry Glenn.

In between engineering those two touchdowns, Brady received seven Tremendous Bowls — an all-time file — and become the NFL’s all-time chief in passing yards (84,520), landing passes (624), completions (7,263), common season wins (243), playoff wins (35) and Tremendous Bowl MVPs (5).