“I’m trying to get out and I go up to one end of the stadium and there’s a big handicap ramp that goes up the side of the stadium and about 20 feet up there’s an open window that you can jump down onto the grass and I get up there and am looking down thinking I’m going to break my ankle. What’s worse, going to jail or breaking my ankle?
I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have a phone on me so I get into this maintenance tent and find a sledgehammer…I start beating the hell out of this extension ladder to get it off the wall and knock it off after about 10 times. This ladder was so busted up but I carried it halfway around the stadium where I was going to jump, climbed down, got in the car and drove out of South Bend faster than I ever drove in my life.” – Tom Brady
Brady says that he never told anyone about it at Michigan out of embarrassment but said there were a group of people watching him climb down and I turn around and they’ve got this camcorder…
It goes without saying but if you know anyone who may have a video tape from 1998 of a man in his early-20’s climbing out of Notre Dame Stadium, you know where to send it.
Finally: Did the early visit pay off for Brady and Michigan?