Brady to give MVP truck to Butler
 

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady won a 2015 Chevy Colorado for his Super Bowl XLIX MVP efforts, but he plans to give the truck to safety Malcolm Butler.

"I'd love to [give Malcolm the truck]," Brady said on Boston sports radio station WEEI. "We're going to figure out how to make that happen."

Butler, an undrafted rookie out of West Alabama, became the Patriots' unlikely hero when he made the Super Bowl-winning interception on a Russell Wilson pass intended for Ricardo Lockette at the 1-yard line with 20 seconds remaining in the Patriots' 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.

"It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team," Brady said. "A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is."

Brady has won three Super Bowl MVP awards, tying Joe Montana's NFL record. So, Brady can spare to the truck that came with the Super Bowl XLIX honor.

"A lot of people didn't get to see [Butler's skills] throughout the course of the season," Brady said. "[Butler's interception] comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year."


Butler said in an interview with ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike" on Monday morning that his work in practice helped him to recognize the play.

"At practice, the scout team ran that same play and I got beat on it. [Coach] Bill [Belichick] told me, 'You've got to be on that.' At that time [of the play], memorization came through," he said. "I just jumped the route. I just made a play. Just do your job -- do it the best way you can. I just did my job."

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Re: Brady to give MVP truck to Butler
 

That's kinda' cool ... maybe as an undrafted rookie, Butler's not driving that nice of a ride? 2015 Motor Trend Truck of the Year, them Colorado's are nice trucks.

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Even though I'm a Patriots Fan (1A to the Saints); never really liked Kraft, Belichick nor Brady-Giselle Drama...

But, I've gotta tip my hat to Brady as between his comments on the Victory dias and giving the truck to a kid making the min - that's a class act...

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Classy move by Brady

Butler made a great play, whilst I wasnt rooting for either team, it was very sweet seeing Richard Sherman nearly crying on the sideline after his earlier hand gestures at the cameras

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Poor marketing on Chevy. Guy wins the SB and he gets an entry level truck. To top it off, in days he wants to give it away. So now the Canyon will be remembered as the truck Brady didn't want.

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Classy move by Tom Brady! I don't think Tom didn't want the truck. I think it was the right thing to do.

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My first thought is why is a filthy rich player getting a free truck?

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The thought actually occurred to me that it may happen when the MVP winner was announced. It's cool that it actually happened.

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Color me a cynic, but Tom Brady is a spokesman for Dodge. He wasn't about to accept a Chevy truck.

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Tough tax bracket to be in I guess!
Another option was to sell it to Cam after he flipped his over.
"Hey Cam this is Tom boy do I have a deal for you"

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Doesn't matter to me if that is the ultimate reason. Still nice to give it to the rookie instead of just selling it.

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You know, I thought about that but when I look at the difference between my son's '05 Colorado & the new ones, it's night & day. They really did up their game on that line ... it's still no full size, you're right, but GM has to cut corners somewhere with all the ignition recalls & all, :lol:.

Is he? I've never seen him in a Chrysler ad ... little conflict of interest there, :lol: ... the problems of all-star athletes, :neutral:.

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I'm just going to take it at face value. It was a classy thing to do to show the rookie he was appreciated for pulling Toms ass out of the frying pan.

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He pitches the Dodge Dart.

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Selling it? Why would Tom Brady even bother to take ownership of a ~$35K truck (if not less, the MSRP for starts at $20K) then sell it?

And it's not like Brady is going to drive a mid priced truck. Dude drives a RR Ghost.

Tossing the keys of a cheap truck that a) didn't even belong to him and b) Brady would not be caught dead driving to the rookie that just made the big play was more of a convenience to Tom Brady.

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Oh, :lol: ... don't mean to laugh, but it's not the kind of car I envision a 4x SuperBowl QB endorsing (maybe the Viper) and my Mom used to drive a '63 Dart that got passed around to me & my brothers until we junked it ... we also had a driveway full of '70 - '73 Darts at one time trying to get parts enough for one that we could actually drive, :lol: ... they sure were junky cars but I learned a lot working on 'em.

Re: Brady to give MVP truck to Butler
 

Definitely a bigger deal for Butler to get a truck out of the deal. Glad Brady did it, no matter the reasons.

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Oh, I laugh too... he's in like half a sec in the commercials, not even near the car, and I am sure Dodge pays him a lot of money for those half seconds.

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Agreed.

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LOL. Reminds me of the time when a friend's bar band got a tour sponsorship from Miller beer. They had a Miller High Life sign behind them and they were supposed to only be seen drinking Miller Beer onstage. So they got the Miller beverage person to give them huge packages of Miller logo cups. They would go out on tour and bring Heinecken and Abita along with them, but drink it out of Miller logo cups. The roadie would fill them up and hand them to them on the side of the stage, so no one saw what was in them.

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I guess the 1st thing Butler has to do is put more air in the tires.

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