Timing is everything.
Perhaps no one should understand this better than Tom Brady. The quarterback, drafted in the lower rounds out of Michigan, was certainly in the right place at New England when the man he backed up, Drew Bledsoe, suffered an injury early in the 2001 season.
Almost 20 years and six NFL championships later, Tom Brady has subjected himself to some rather bad timing. We’re not talking about his move to Tampa Bay during a pandemic that may alter the season, but the launch of his immune supplement during the said pandemic. Called Protect, HuffPost reports the product boasts ingredients like vitamin C and zinc, which according to Brady will work to keep the immune system “healthy.”
Needless to say, some people in the medical community were not amused.
You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to profit from people’s pandemic anxieties. This is a waste of money.
— Jack Turban MD (@jack_turban) May 19, 2020
While generally, I am not a fan of the “stick to sports” rhetoric that is heaped upon athletes on social media and the only mention of COVID-19 appears in the disclaimer that shipping may be delayed, I have to admit that the introduction of this product when there is so much conflicting information about the virus and whether there’s an acceptable treatment probably wasn’t the best idea. For someone who has had a lot of success in his career, Tom Brady did about as well here as his final pass as a Patriot.