{"id":302283,"date":"2026-05-21T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302283\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:43:09","slug":"tom-brady-takes-jab-at-texas-tech-in-georgetown-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302283\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady takes jab at Texas Tech in Georgetown commencement speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady never played against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> in his college career at Michigan, and he was undefeated in the playoffs against maybe its most successful NFL alumnus in Patrick Mahomes. So, why did the former quarterback take a shot at the Red Raiders?<\/p>\n<p>During the speech, Brady talked about New England&#8217;s historic comeback against the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. In its early stages,\u00a0Amendola made a catch to convert a 4th-and-3 and keep a drive going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanny went undrafted out of Texas Tech. He was cut by three NFL teams. He wasn\u2019t the tallest, he wasn\u2019t the fastest, but he had a huge heart,&#8221; Brady said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then, he proceeded to knock the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/2017\/06\/07\/the-5-greatest-wrs-in-texas-tech-history-electric-return-men-a-no-1-overall-draft-pick-and-more\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Raiders<\/a>, if only slightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, I hope you guys find colleagues like Danny. Having business school friends is great, don\u2019t get me wrong, but sometimes you need a kid from a glorified community college who can bail you out of any jam,&#8221; Brady said.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback was probably just taking a dig at his good friend Amendola, but Texas Tech has some of the most loyal fans in college football. Brady should prepare to receive some banter himself if he&#8217;s ever in Lubbock for a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady never played against\u00a0Texas Tech in his college career at Michigan, and he was undefeated in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,89414,88229],"class_list":["post-302283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tp-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}