Tom Brady wants Mark Wahlberg to play him in a movie
Sometimes you get fancy with your passes, and sometimes you go for the wide-open man. Tom Brady threw one right to the middle of the field when asked who would play him in the movie of his life.
“I’m going with Mark Wahlberg,” Brady said on his weekly Westwood One radio appearance. “A Boston legend, (from) Dorchester, one of the just ‘grind it out’ kind of guys.”
That’s nice and all, but Brady is pretty much the exact opposite of a “grind-it-out” kind of guy. Plus, at 6-foot-4 he’s a good seven inches taller than Wahlberg. (Brady and Wahlberg have shared a scene before, a highly not-safe-for-work sequence in “Ted 2.”)
We’re not sure quite what the hook is here: quarterback who struggles a bit at Michigan gets drafted in the sixth round and goes on to win every award imaginable and start a beautiful family. Not exactly a lot of dramatic tension involved. But hey, if this mythical movie does ever get made, you can bet it’ll be playing on screens in Boston until the sun burns out.
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