New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s request to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific” is getting slammed, particularly by two former New York Mets who were teammates of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver. “Maybe it’s the new athlete,” former Mets first baseman Ed Kranepool said Tuesday in a USA Today story. “But when you ask me about Tom Terrific and having played behind a guy like (Seaver), there’s only one guy who can be called Tom Terrific and that’s him. (Brady) is the second model.”Seaver, though, never filed for a trademark of the nickname that first was popularized by the “Tom Terrific” cartoon. “Tom Seaver will always be known as ‘Tom Terrific,’” Shamsky said Tuesday.

Source: National Post June 05, 2019 00:56 UTC