Tom Brady says he’s retiring from football for real this time. But along with his Super Bowl rings, and that nagging string of resume asterisks on the topic of suspicious football air pressure levels, he’ll always have “80 for Brady.”
Some movies are sports merchandising tie-ins, plain and simple; this one’s plainer and simpler than most. The man in the title, who also appears in a key supporting role as himself, produced this project. How’d it come about?
In brief: Hollywood agent Max Gross, currently with the agency William Morris Endeavor, has a New England Patriots-fan grandmother, Betty Pensavalle, now 94. She and her friends formed an “Over 80 for Brady” fan club, and Gross had special jerseys made up for them. He thought they’d make a cute movie. So did Brady’s production company. And here we are.
