Tom Brady Saves the Montreal Expos in Easter Egg-Filled Topps Ad

The future football Hall of Famer was the defunct Canadian franchise's 18th-round pick in 1995

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Tom Brady will be a first-ballot National Football League Hall of Famer, but he could’ve been a Canadian icon.

At Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the biggest draw these days is its fitness facility. Major League Baseball’s Montreal Expos left nearly 20 years ago to become the Washington Nationals, and their mascot Youppi has been with hockey’s Montreal Canadiens (18 years) almost as long as he was with the Expos (25). 

Could one man have prevented that from happening?

The active imaginations at Fanatics-owned Topps and their creative partners Flower Shop think that Brady—the Expos’ 18th round draft pick as a catcher in 1995, who chose football over baseball and was the Expos’ last active draft pick when he retired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year—could’ve been that guy.

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