Tom Brady Recalls Confronting His Youngest Heckler Who Was an 11-Year-Old Jets Fan

When you’re as good at your job as Tom Brady was during his two decades as an NFL quarterback, you’re bound to piss a lot of people off along the way. For him to win all those games and Super Bowls, other teams had to lose. It’s the nature of the sport. All you can really do is charge it to the game… or you can get back at your tormentor by heckling.

Even now, three years after Brady played his final game in the NFL, he’s still feeling it from rival fans. While at the Indy 500 in Indianapolis last week (home of the Colts, who had an epic rival with Brady’s New England Patriots), he was booed by the attending Indy sports fans. Fair play. T

he GOAT took the booing in stride, however, responding by saying, “It was great to get in one more successful drive in front of a bunch of colts fans.” Nice. But Colts fans are just the tip of the iceberg. They weren’t even in Brady’s division.

It’s those AFC East fan bases he kept in the mud for 20 years that hate him the most. Brady went 87-22 against those three teams overall and 30-7 specifically against the New York Jets. Recently, Brady reminisced about one of the funniest heckles he ever got, courtesy of a prepubescent Jets fan.

“I’ve heard it all. Actually, in my last season with the Patriots, we were playing at the Jets in the Meadowlands. And I’m standing in the tunnel before the game, and this kid’s yelling down at me, ‘You bleepedy-bleep bleep.’ (Laughs)”

Brady told that hilarious story while appearing as part of a star-studded panel for CBS’ coverage of the UEFA Champions League Final over the weekend. The lineup also featured actor Tom Cruise and former soccer stars David Beckham and Thierry Henry. But Brady wasn’t done there. Seeing how young the kid was, Brady chirped back up at him.

“And I look up at this kid and I just said, ‘How old are you?’ He goes, ’11,’ I go, ‘Where are your parents!?’ (Laughs) And I’m like, you know, you teach ’em early and they’re into it too, so it’s fun.”