Tom Brady Gives Fan $60K Bitcoin For Returning Historic Football

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — St. Petersburg Buccaneers fan Byron Kennedy will receive a Bitcoin worth more than $60,000 from quarterback Tom Brady for returning his 600th touchdown pass football in Sunday night's win over Chicago Bears.

Brady is the only person in National Football League history to throw 600 touchdowns.

Brady will also give the fan two signed Brady jerseys, a signed Mike Evans jersey, a Brady helmet, game cleats, two season tickets for the remainder of 2021 and the 2022 season along with another game ball and a $1,000 gift card for team store merchandise, according to a Sports Center tweet.

Brady told reporters that Kennedy lost his leverage once he gave up the 600th TD ball.

"I'm also giving him a Bitcoin, which that's pretty cool, too, so at the end of the day I think he's still making out pretty well," Brady told Sports Center anchors Monday night.

Tom Brady said the Bucs fan lost all his leverage once he gave up the 600th TD ball.

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According to Ken Goldin, founder of Goldin Auctions, the football is worth half a million dollars, and could easily go up to $900,000 if ever sold at auction. A single BitCoin is worth $62,741.62 Monday night, CoinMarket said.

Sunday's game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears turned Tom Brady historic, and a St. Petersburg fan in the stands had a lucky moment touching that piece of history — the football that marked Brady's 600th touchdown pass.

Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans celebrated his touchdown by mistakenly giving the football to 29-year-old Kennedy, a St. Petersburg High School alumnus, who stood in an end zone seat at Raymond James Stadium, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Following Evans' run back to the sidelines with Brady, he found out the football needed to be brought back from the fan.

Kennedy told CBS he was happy to return the ball to Brady. "I knew how much it meant to Tom," Kennedy said, "and I was willing to trade."

“I don’t actually keep too many things. In that circumstance I felt like that might be a good one to keep," Brady said. "He’s going to get something nice in return. We’ll give him a helmet, a couple of jerseys or something. That was really cool of him to do that.”

Brady said he thinks about his teammates who shared it with him. He believes it stands for the teamwork and the challenges they face every week together.

A Bucs crew member negotiated with Kennedy to give the ball back in exchange for some signed memorabilia, Fox Sports reported. An auctioneer, Ken Goldin, of Goldin Auctions, told the outlet the ball could be worth $500,000.

The game also turned special for a young fan who held a sign that read, "Tom Brady Helped Me Beat Brain Cancer." A tweet from WFLA producer Robert Pandolfino shows Brady running over to the boy with 33 seconds left in the game and handing him a Bucs hat. He is seen covering his face with his hands as he cries happiness after Brady puts the hat on his head.

In addition to Brady creating football history, the Bucs slammed the Bears 38-3.

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