Tom Brady is headed back to Minnesota for Super Bowl LII. That's right. "Back." The California kid spent some memorable moments there growing up.
On WEEI's Kirk and Callahan Show, Brady explained that his mother Galynn was from Browerville, Minnesota, which is about a two-hour ride from US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
"My grandparents lived there, and my grandma died of multiple sclerosis quite a few years ago," Brady said. "She was in a nursing home and my grandpa was a farmer. He was a dairy farmer, had a lot of cows and he farmed corn. Every year we would go back in the summer and spend weeks.
"We’d go fishing in the summer, ice fishing in the winter, and milk the cows with my grandpa, and just kind of tend to the farm. It was a great experience for me, [being] born in California."
Brady said that when the Patriots last traveled to play the Vikings, in Week 2 of the 2014 season, he had plenty of family show up. And he's looking forward to having loads of support when he and his teammates travel that way again to play the Eagles on Feb. 4.
"I’ve always felt a connection to Minnesota," Brady said. "It will be fun because my uncles live there, my cousins. We were just back there last year when my grandpa passed away. It’s just a great place. It’s really special to go back there. The last time we played in Minnesota, I had a lot of people come, a lot of family and extended family. So it will be a lot of great support there in Minnesota too."