Buccaneers Nicknamed Attempt to Sign Tom Brady “Operation Shoeless Joe Jackson”

Via ESPN:

John Spytek, director of player personnel and a former Brady teammate at Michigan, came up with the name for good reason.

More than any other franchise in American sports, the Buccaneers needed an unlikely savior to suddenly appear out of a cornfield. “If we build it, he will come,” Spytek would tell his general manager, Jason Licht. “Go the distance.”

They built it and Brady came.  Now he has to deliver to prove that he can do it without the greatest football coach of all-time.

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