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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Tom Brady’s postgame press conference last Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California had a little edge to it, when his hometown team was brought up.
Brady said, to paraphrase, “I grew up loving this team (the 49ers)…then I grew to love another team.” Brady waxed poetic over his days as a youth in San Mateo, rooting for the 49ers. It was his dream to one day play for that team.
In the 2000 NFL Draft, with the chance to draft Brady and make his dreams come true, the 49ers passed on him and drafted Giovanni Carmazzi of Hofstra with the 65th pick (third round).