Tom Brady Happy He 'Stuck with Football' over Opportunity with Montreal Expos

Tom Brady was always destined for the red, white and blue.

Football, however, was less certain.

The New England Patriots quarterback was once an 18th-round selection of the Montreal Expos in the 1995 MLB amateur draft—a memory he chose to commemorate on Facebook. 

At 17 years old, No. 12's prospects as a major league catcher far exceeded those as a starting signal-caller. According to Rachel Brady of the Globe and Mail, high school baseball coach Pete Jensen believed Brady was "a better baseball player" during that time "than he was a football player."

Now a four-time Super Bowl champion, it's clear Brady's pigskin-tossing talents were simply slow to bloom. 

"I'm so happy I stuck with football!" he captioned a would-be baseball card.

Seems that hindsight and a Brady spiral do share one important quality: accuracy. 

[Facebook, h/t The Score]