Hours after Tom Brady made his first appearance at Patriots minicamp Tuesday, a group of New York Mets fans gathered at a Manhattan restaurant to protest the quarterback’s recent attempt to appropriate the nickname of one of their team’s icons.
It was a uniquely New York affair.
“We’re very upset,” Sammy Musovic, the owner of Sojourn Restaurant, said in a makeshift press conference.
The latest — and perhaps least expected — front in the Boston-New York sports rivalry opened after news spread earlier this week that Brady’s company, TEB Capital Management, had filed two trademark applications for the exclusive rights to use the nickname “Tom Terrific” for a new line of commercial products, from posters to T-shirts.