Nearly 40 years ago, Terry Bradshaw summoned his inner Tom Brady

Thanks to the excavation of an archaic newspaper clipping, the world has discovered Tom Brady’s name was resonating in NFL circles when he was only 5 years old.

Sort of.

A story from United Press International wire service posted Wednesday morning on Twitter by quirkyresearch.com, indicates that former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw entered a Shreveport, La., hospital exactly 38 years before under an assumed name to undergo elbow surgery.

The name he used: Thomas Brady.

“Many times, we have to admit people under an assumed name or under no name to keep the press and the fans away,” Charles Boyd, the hospital’s administrator, told UPI.

The Tom Brady that has won almost twice as many Super Bowls (seven) as Bradshaw (four) would’ve been 5 at the time and residing in the San Francisco outskirts with his parents and three older sisters. Roughly eight years remained before Brady (full name Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.) would serve as a backup on the Junipero Serra High junior varsity team that went 0-8.

he Tom Brady that has won almost twice as many Super Bowls (seven) as Bradshaw (four) would’ve been 5 at the time and residing in the San Francisco outskirts with his parents and three older sisters. Roughly eight years remained before Brady (full name Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.) would serve as a backup on the Junipero Serra High junior varsity team that went 0-8.