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Once upon a time, Tom Brady couldn’t get his high school team to the playoffs

BC-FBN-PATRIOTS-BRADY-HIGHSCHOOL:SJ — sports (950 words)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Maybe the Rams should call a couple of former Bay Area high school coaches for tips about how to beat Tom Brady.

They figured it out.

For all of Brady’s greatness with the New England Patriots — he’s going for a sixth Super Bowl championship in nine appearances Sunday — the record book shows that he never played in a high school playoff game as Serra’s quarterback in 1993 and 1994.

And some results were pretty bad.

In Brady’s junior season, Archbishop Mitty blasted Serra, 44-0.