UFC president Dana White expanded on his story revealing that Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski virtually struck a deal to hitch the Las Vegas Raiders.
Ever because the Raiders moved to Las Vegas, there was loads of thrilling NFL-UFC crossover — in any case, it was none apart from Bruce Buffer who formally launched the Raiders on Monday Night Football final season.
It seems that there’s loads of crossing over behind the scenes, too, as Rob Gronkowski just lately revealed that he and Tom Brady nearly chose Las Vegas as a substitute of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And who was the particular person working to make the dream a actuality? UFC president Dana White, who shared his recruitment story on reside tv after Gronkowski introduced it to gentle.
Although Gronkowski mentioned he’s completely happy he went to the Bucs, apparently Brady was “not happy” with the way in which issues went down, based on White.
“Yeah, it’s true,” White affirmed. “I talked Brady into playing for the Raiders, and Gronk was coming with him. And they were negotiating the deal, and they were really close to getting it done, and then Gruden pulled the deal. Brady was not happy about it, and neither was I. And that’s that. He went to the Buccaneers and won a Super Bowl.”
White continued on how disillusioned he was that the deal fell by on the final minute.
“I own a f****** box there [at Allegiant Stadium] — I wanted Brady, you know what I mean? Crazy,” White mentioned as reporters laughed. “It would have been amazing for the city and amazing for the Raiders…their first year there, they got Brady and Gronk?”
Tom Brady was “not happy” about failed Raiders deal, and neither was Dana White
It appears that each one events concerned had been upset when the deal went by, particularly as a result of it was on the behest of Jon Gruden, who was fired from the workforce final season after it was revealed that he used racial and gendered slurs in previous emails.
There’s no telling what Brady and Gronk would have completed in Las Vegas in 2020 or 2021, but when the 2 had been nonetheless there in 2022, they may have been reunited with former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and former teammate Chandler Jones. Also, it’s affordable to imagine that Brady would have introduced his recruiting expertise to the Bucs after stars like Richard Sherman and Julio Jones admitted that Brady known as them and influenced their respective choices.
Gronk can snort about it now, however White and Las Vegas misplaced out on the chance of a lifetime — or at the least a really certain wager on a Super Bowl win.
