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TUESDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:NHL: Los Angeles at Boston, 7 p.m. (NESN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- Tom Brady tweeted congratulations to Drew Brees on Monday night after Brees became the NFL's all-time leader in touchdown passes. And Brady accepted the challenge of passing him.
Congrats drew!! Couldn't be more deserving. Passing Peyton in anything is an incredible achievement and your records will be tough to beat! But it's worth trying --
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) December 17, 2019"Congrats drew!! Couldn't be more deserving. Passing Peyton in anything is an incredible achievement and your records will be tough to beat! But it's worth trying," Brady tweeted, along with a winking emoji.
Brees broke Peyton Manning's record of 539 career touchdown passes during the third quarter of the Saints 34-7 win over the Colts.
Other athletes and celebrities congratulated Brees as well.
congrats to @drewbrees breaking record tonight
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) December 17, 2019Congratulations @drewbrees!! WELL DESERVED! ALL-TIME PASSING TD LEADER!! #540 and counting... #FutureHallOfFamer ----That record isn't gonna be broken!! @Saints #100thYear What an absolute blessing!
— Terrell Owens (@terrellowens) December 17, 2019LEGEND! @DrewBrees pic.twitter.com/GFvoYuPxT7
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) December 17, 2019Congratulations @drewbrees you are the epitome of excellence! #Truth @Saints
— Deion Sanders (@DeionSanders) December 17, 2019-- New Boston College football coach Jeff Hafley held his introductory press conference on Monday and he spoke about the school as a "special place."
"I got a chance to be with the team today, and I told them why I wanted to be here. I looked at them in this room and I said, this is a very special place," he said in his remarks. "It has Catholic and Jesuit values that are very important for my family, men and women for others, service, humbleness. It's a special place. It's a place that I've been here before. I worked camps here. I jogged around the res. I stayed in these dorms in between camp sessions. So I know it."
Embedded with @CoachJeffHafley on his first day on the Heights.#WeAreBC---- https://t.co/JRaPGFyXAy pic.twitter.com/OEufiI5RvU
— BC Football -- (@BCFootball) December 16, 2019"When this opportunity came to be part of this special place, I looked at them, and I said, I'm here because of you guys," Hafley continued. "You guys are the ones I want to coach. We've got a good group here. I've watched you. I'm excited to be your coach. Then I told them what I'm all about as a person, and I told them we're going to do this with three things: We're going to be tough. We're going to walk tough. We're going to look tough. We're going to play tough. That's who we're going to be, and that's going to be huge for us."
As @CoachJeffHafley said, its time to Get In!#GetIn#WeAreBC pic.twitter.com/zz480yzXPN
— BC Football -- (@BCFootball) December 16, 2019He then said he still has some unfinished business as the co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State.
"I wish I could stay here and begin right now but I have to go win a national championship," Hafley said. "I owe it to Ohio State, to coach Day and to the players and I'm excited. So I'm going to go do that."
What a day...-- https://t.co/Yi6MDS9tsU-- https://t.co/0IyKzXdAlW-- https://t.co/pQUtk1GBoS#WeAreBC-- pic.twitter.com/UEpYrshIlj
— BC Football -- (@BCFootball) December 16, 2019Hafley was officially announced as the new BC football coach on Saturday morning.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It wasn't a great visit, but I think that's — look, you know how it is traveling around cross-country going from one team to the next, getting MRIs and back x-rays, or whatever. I am sure it got to him. The energy that Rob has as a football player is I would say at a very high level. Maybe not a (Tedy) Bruschi, but it is up there. It's pretty high and we didn't see it." -- Bill Belichick, to OMF, on Rob Gronkowski falling asleep during pre-draft visit
