After Mastering Every Other Form of Human Endeavor, Tom Brady Sets His Sights on Dominating the NFT Market

 "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." (Benefits of a community college education and a knowledge of 80s action movies.) 

What do you do when you're Tom Brady and you've run out of world's to conquer? When you've set new standards of human achievement in the fields of athletics, fitness, supermodel marrying, business, breeding, sports medicine, filmmaking and general excellence? When you've built an empire that brought immeasurable joy to a cold, dark land of pale, angry, sullen, IPA swilling troglodytes, moved to paradise just as a pandemic turned your old home into a dystopian wasteland straight out of a Bergman film, and brought your success there? Seriously, what is left at this point? 

If you're the One True GOAT, you sit and you wait. And sooner or later, someone will create yet another world. Then you conquer it. 

A couple of months ago, few if any had ever heard of the NFT market. Now that practically everyone has, Brady has wasted no time setting his dreamy, blue-eyed sights on it. His army is on the march and he will soon bestride that narrow world like a Colossus. (That's Shakespeare, from my four year state college education.)

Source - The seven-time Super Bowl champion is launching an NFT platform called Autograph this spring. It will bring together some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, fashion and pop culture to work with creators to develop unique digital collectibles, a representative for Brady tells CNN Business.

Autograph will also produce NFT's featuring Brady. ...

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are pieces of digital content linked to the blockchain, the digital ledger system underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. ... [A]n artwork by digital artist Beeple recently sold for $69 million at Christie's. Rock group Kings of Leon released their most recent album as an NFT and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for $2.9 million.

Of course, the Bradysexual in me wonders why, if Autograph has him, they need "some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, fashion and pop culture." Since he is the biggest name in all of them, isn't signing the rest of them just kind of putting a hat on a hat? In the same way that you wonder why Superman needs to work with a tracklete and an ichthyologist when he's indestructible. But that's just me being a cynic. If he wants to give jobs to lesser celebrities, who am I to question it?

Let's just realize what is taking place here. Now that TB12 is involved, these weirdo cryptocurrencies are not going away. If you you've been waiting for the NFT bubble to burst like the Beanie Baby collectible craze did and some investor will be stuck holding the bag on some artwork worth nothing that he/she spent $69 million on, you'd better think again. After all, his rookie card just set a record by selling for $2.25 million. Why would his NFTs not also break records?

Brady's involvement in this market marks a fundamental shift in how things will be valued. No different than when money first replaced trade and bartering at the beginning of the Bronze Age. You just know that if he was around Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC (and I'm not ruling it out) that would've been his likeness on the coin of the realm the Babylonians used. And it's only a matter of time before I'm asking my investment people to put all my 401(k) money into whatever abstract cyber-thingy that bears Brady's name. 

And when it does, this will just be further proof of the case I've been making for years now: Tom Brady is not of this Earth.