Tom Brady's pronunciation of one of the most common terms in football left fans stunned and laughing at the Fox Sports analyst's expense.
It happened Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium as the seven-time Super Bowl champion was reviewing a play in which Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold was sacked by the Packers late in the second quarter. .
That left Brady with the 46-year-old former Jets signalman holding the ball too long this season, even though Minnesota won 27-25 to eventually improve to 14-2. He started commenting that he felt like he was taking too many sacks.
“They did a really good job of protecting us today,” Brady said. “Sam may have felt a little relieved, [but] At some point you have to let go of the ball. He held onto the ball quite a bit this season and had a lot of sacks. Almost 46 sacks this season alone. ”
However, the 47-year-old Brady's “sack'' sounds more like “sack'' or “sock,'' and fans believe that's because he spent his years playing for the Patriots in New England and his California roots. There were several hypotheses.
One X user wrote, “His Cali and Boston accent got me.”
He added, “The Brothers' Boston accents clicked right away.''
“I'm sure he was thinking of the retail store on 5th Avenue,” another user countered.
Other users weren't trying to overanalyze it, just enjoying the pronunciation, and one user caught them off guard by asking, “Yeah, what is this?”
This wasn't the only time Brady felt awkward on the air.
During the game's intro, Brady couldn't remember the Vikings beating the Packers in their first meeting of the season. This seems like important information in setting up what fans were going to see with the NFC North still in the running.
“We've lost four this year, and so has Green Bay,” said Brady, who is in the first year of a 10-year, $375 million contract with the Foxes. “Two of them to the Lions, they're a good team. The Eagles, we lost to them, but they're a good team. And they lost to, uh, the other one? Anyway… “
