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Tom Brady with a Surface tablet: This picture does not show the current incident, it is from 2020
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It was a scene that also reached many people who are otherwise not interested in American football: In his first zero defeat since 2006, star quarterback Tom Brady threw a Microsoft Surface tablet around in frustration in mid-December.
Press reports carried headlines such as "Tom Brady's best litter of the evening destroys a Microsoft tablet".
In the American football podcast "Let's Go!" The quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers now revealed that the action that was seen in the live broadcast of the game had consequences for him.
"I got a warning from the NFL," Brady said in the episode released earlier this week.
“I'm not going to throw another Surface.
Although I think it ended up being pretty good marketing for the Surface. "
When asked what the warning looked like, Brady replied that he was no longer allowed to throw a Surface or he would have to pay a fine.
Also later in the episode, Brady emphasized again that he was planning not to throw any more of the devices in the New Year.
"Yes, I was pretty angry"
Brady's destruction of the tablet had been widely commented on online, and the snippet of the broadcast spread via platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Tom Brady had already commented on his litter in a previous podcast episode.
"Yeah, I was pretty angry," he had commented on the situation.
He also joked that he wanted to avoid an interception, that is, the interception of the tablet by an opposing player.
That's why he made sure that the device hit the ground.
“After I got my hands on it, nobody got a chance to use it,” Brady said.
The surface tablets in a weatherproof cover have been used in the NFL for years.
Behind this is a partnership between Microsoft and the American professional league, launched in 2013 and worth many hundreds of millions of dollars.
The NFL teams use the devices, among other things, to analyze moves.
In the past few years, a few surface throws had been seen as highly regarded video snippets, just like a scene in which Ryan Tannehill of the Tennessee Titans operated one of the devices with his nose because he was wearing gloves.
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