Yeh, Very, very similar....... calm and accurate and SMART.
Funny story, I was thinking about Montana last night when I was thinking of Brady's great head. My wife (who is a sports fan and knows her stuff) and I were at the Pittsburgh airport back in the Montana/SF Super Bowl years. I guess the 49er's were in Pittsburgh to play the Steelers. I don't remember what Mary and I were doing at the airport, but we were walking around killing some time in one of those magazine/newspaper/gift shops. There in that shop peering out from behind a few magazines was Joe Montana. He was all alone. I spotted him and he knew it. No big deal. I played some professional sports, have been around a few sports all my life so it was really just another guy, and I always knew him to be a real nice guy.
Anyhow, I walked over to him and said , "Hi, hey take it easy on the Steelers, ok?" -- or something like that. He laughed. Then I said, "see that girl over there, that's my wife, how about going over there and saying, "aren't you Mary ......blah, blah, blah"? Now Mary knew very well what Joe Montana looked like, she really liked him for a lot of reasons, not the least was that he is from around Pittsburgh and she liked his playing style, and, thought he was good looking. Anyhow, he did go over. I watched as he walked over to her, she recognized him as he approached, he then said 'the Mary bit' for me, and she was so flipped out. It was the cutest thing! Then he pointed over to me, and the gag was over.
So, he was a great sport to do it, and it was just a very natural experience.....no celebrity crap at all! As a matter of fact, he was almost shy to an extent.
As he was leaving he laughingly said, you guys didn't even want an autograph...... Mary said, "nope, how about your shirt." LOL! He laughed, waved, and that was that. It was a great day at the airport, and it came to my mind last night thinking of Brady.
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I think Montana and Brady are very much alike!! Winners.