TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay Buccaneers new wide receiver Russell Gage said Friday that when quarterback Tom Brady personally called him Monday night on the first day of the NFL's legal tampering period, he thought it was a prank. Gage had just talked to his agent and was weighing his options on where to sign next.
"For a minute, I thought it was a prank, somebody was trying to pull one on me," Gage said. "He just told me about what they have here in Tampa Bay and that he wanted me to be a part of it, that they something really special going on.