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Before Tom Brady was a Super Bowl champion he was an intern at Merrill Lynch — here's his resume from when he didn't think he'd make it in the NFL

By Cork Gaines , Tony Manfred ,and Grace Kay
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Tom Brady has come a long way since he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1999.

Before he was a seven-time Super Bowl champion and one of the best quarterbacks of all time, Brady was an NFL draft prospect who was unsure of his future.

He didn't know in the spring of 2000 if he'd make it in the NFL, so he made a résumé in case he had to enter the corporate world.

Brady posted the old résumé on Facebook seven years ago. The resume shows that he interned for Merrill Lynch as an assistant to a senior sales broker and worked at Michigan's golf course while he was in college.

"Found my old resume! Really thought I was going to need this after the 5th round," Brady wrote on Facebook.

 

Brady was picked in the sixth round — 199th overall. He had little use for the resume.

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