As with many modern athletes, watching Tom Brady winning Super Bowls was part of Bruins center Patrice Bergeron’s life since before he became a professional athlete.
“It’s funny because when I was 16, playing midget triple-A back home, I think that was the year [the Patriots] won their first Super Bowl with that field goal, [Adam] Vinatieri. It was a last-second thing and I think they were kind of the wild card to win it,” Bergeron said on a video call Tuesday.
Now that Brady’s officially hanging up his cleats after weeks of speculation, Bergeron, like the rest of the sports world, is getting ready for a new world: one without Brady at the top of NFL year after year.