It’s difficult to play football in Massachusetts in the winter, but former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady found a way, as he always does.
In a recent episode of the Lots to Say podcast, Matt Cassel, Brady’s backup in New England from 2005 to 2008, revealed the GOAT’s approach for staying warm in frigid temperatures.
“One of the tricks of the trade that I learned early on was from Tom Brady,” Cassel told me. “We were in the dressing room; it’s going to be a frigid game. It’s about 17 degrees outside, with a little bit of wind and sleet, and I see him putting on a half-wetsuit… I’ve never seen that before.”
“It is an absolute game-changer,” said the former backup quarterback, who used the tactic himself. “Because you put that on and it just—the heat is insulated inside your body and you don’t feel the elements like you would if you just wore a normal type of cloth.”
Cassel continued to wear a wetsuit in cold-weather games for the rest of his career, and he even taught his future teammates the trick.
TB12 was consistently one step ahead.
