The Hilarious Tom Brady Lord Of The Rings Meme Explained

Here’s Fox Sports’ hilarious Tom BradyLord Of The Rings meme explained. Quarterback Tom Brady and his storied NFL career have proved fruitful grounds for the meme-making community. In the aftermath of the Deflategate tampering scandal – in which Brady allegedly ordered the deflation of footballs to win a game against the Indianapolis Colts in 2014 – the quarterback attended a court hearing to decide whether he would have to serve a four-game suspension. Unflattering courtroom sketches from the hearing depicting a rather deflated (pun intended) Brady soon went viral with meme makers photoshopping his distorted face into famous scenes from movies like Titanic and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

It’s not just career lows that have inspired Tom Brady-themed memes. When Brady’s then-team the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl for the sixth time in 2019, the quarterback scored his sixth NFL Super Bowl ring as a result. Soon after the internet was flooded with memes hailing Brady as the NFL’s Thanos, comparing his six rings to the six Infinity Stones the MCU super-villain collected to activate the Infinity Gauntlet and wipe out half of the universe’s population.

Tom Brady’s Thanos-level victory was short-lived, however. During the latest NFL playoffs, Brady and the New England Patriots found themselves playing against the Tennessee Titans in an AFC Wild Card game. The underdog Titans defeated the Patriots 20-13 and the defending champions crashed out of the playoffs, losing their chance to play in the 2020 Super Bowl. In response to the Patriots’ defeat, Fox Sports tweeted a hilarious Lord Of The Rings-themed Tom Brady meme that summed up the situation.

The Tom Brady-Lord Of The Rings meme features the climactic scene from Return Of The King – the final installment in the Peter Jackson trilogy – in which the One Ring is destroyed and the Dark Lord Sauron is defeated as his tower crumbles to the ground. The meme paints Brady as the Eye of Sauron and compares the New England Patriots’ defeat to the end of Sauron’s dominion over Middle-earth. Gandalf and Aragorn, meanwhile, represent NFL fans elated that the big bad of American football has finally been defeated.

As funny as Fox Sports’ Lord Of The Rings meme was, the defeat was no doubt tough for Tom Brady as it was the quarterback’s last game with the New England Patriots before his contract expired and he joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On the upside, Brady probably has a few years left in him before he retires so fingers crossed his time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will generate a few more hilarious memes.