Tap, tap oc Tap, tap oc … Bolavip knocked on the door of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and who attended was no one else and no one less than Martín Grammar, the only Argentine who has managed to win a Super Bowl in NFL history. Connoisseur of the Ships from inside the team followed from beginning to end the consecration of Tom Brady as the organization’s Spanish commentator.
And not only that! Grammar was given the luxury, honor and pleasure, of share dressing room with the most winning quarterback of the NFL in the five months he was part of the New England Patriots. Unfortunately he could not play alongside Brady due to injury, but the former Argentine player has unmissable anecdotes of how Tom is as a companion.
In an exclusive dialogue with Bolavip, Martin Grammar talked about the Tom Brady phenomenon at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, told what makes the quarterback who has seven Super Bowl rings even bigger and was even encouraged to say the longer the QB legend will be seen in the NFL. An unmissable conversation.
– He had a chance to win Super Bowl XXXVII and hold the Vince Lombardi trophy in his hands. Describe this feeling to us?
“The easiest way to compare it’s like winning a World Cup. When I started playing football my dream was to win a championship and luckily it was given to me in the fourth year in Tampa Bay. It was an amazing thing. A tremendous joy. “
This is how Tom Brady treats his teammates in the NFL
– How was the experience of sharing a dressing room with Tom Brady?
“I was in New England for a short time because I was injured in the preseason, I didn’t play a single game and I didn’t stay on the team, but when I left New England I left as Tom Brady’s number one fanatic for his humility and leadership. It made me feel part of the group right away. “
“When I got to the locker room I was one more thanks to Brady, he opened the doors for me, he made me feel at home and the truth is he’s a guy. That’s why he’s won seven Super Bowls and he’s showing what is “.
– Do you remember any dialogue especially that marked you with Tom Brady?
“Yeah, of course. It was in my first workout when I went to the gym. He (Brady) was training and I came in, he came to greet me and he said to Matt Cassel (substitute quarterback): ‘He was our new shooter, it’s Martín Gramática who just won a Super Bowl with Tampa and he helped us win. ‘ It was amazing because in the first practice I already felt part of the team. “
“Another dialogue I remember was when I was leaving New England, Brady was training at the event and we said goodbye, I wish him luck and I told him I was a number one fan of him for humility which showed me in the five months I was here. “
The effect of Tom Brady on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
– What was Tom Brady’s main contribution to the Buccaneers?
“He’s an innate leader, power to the other players. Our defense (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) was already improving, from how Week 8 geared up and offensively we had a quarterback who made a lot of mistakes and threw a lot of interceptions. When Tom Brady arrived he went be totally different “.
“Brady is the only athlete in the world who can’t be questioned. There’s no one else close to Tom Brady.”
“Brady made them other players raise their game. When they see a a leader like coaching him at 43 and leaving everything on track it is obvious that the other players will give a little more. Also when Tom came to Tampa we saw that free agents like Antonio Brown, Leonard Fournette and Gronkowski himself wanted to get to the Buccaneers. “
– Which was more important for the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl, Tom Brady or the excellent work of defensive pressing Patrick Mahomes?
“He won as a team. We can’t say that one was more important than another, but without Tom Brady we wouldn’t have made it to the Super Bowl. So you have to give him a lot of credit, then how he played defense in the Super Bowl no one expected. Leaving Patrick Mahomes blank and not scoring a touchdown for the first time in his career, not only professional but also collegiate, had never happened to him. I never thought they were going to sweep that way, but the truth was they played a game. “
– How did you describe the Tom Brady phenomenon in Tampa Bay?
“He’s the biggest star we’ve had in the city because there have been major players who have lived in the city like Derek Jeter, but no one gets to what Tom Brady is.”
“I was on vacation and when Tom Brady signed my friends started comparing all the season tickets. It was a pity for the pandemic because you couldn’t go to the track, but people went crazy when they got to Tampa. ”
Martín Gramática, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player (Photo: courtesy of the interviewee)
The date of Tom Brady’s retirement
– How much time does Tom Brady have in Tampa Bay?
“I do not know… As we see it now he looks like a 20 year old kid and could play for up to ten more years (Laughter), but as he played this year there is already talk that he is going to renegotiate the contract to play for two more years and lower the figure (salary) to be able to sign some teammates “.
“This year Brady was 100 per cent, he didn’t suffer an injury, recently he has to have surgery on one knee, but it’s for cleaning no more. He was seen with energy, happy. I think he was a of the years he most enjoyed because it didn’t have that ‘Patriot Way’ Bill Belichick weight, which is pretty exhausting. “
– In a nutshell, how do you define Tom Brady?
“The best. The only athlete in the world that can’t be questioned. He’s the GOAT, he’s not like basketball who either likes Michael Jordan or Lebron James, in football he can be Maradona, Messi, Pelé or Ronaldo , Messi You can’t define the best. In this case, there is no one close to him. It’s the biggest of all. “
Tom Brady, Buccaneers quarterback (Photo: Getty images)