The status of American sports on the world stage has been discussed once more, with some sections of the media arguing that football dwarfs its stateside equivalent in terms of reputation.
In a controversial list from 2018, FOX Sports ranked Tom Brady as the most famous athlete in the world, while Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were just fifth and sixth respectively.
After Brady won his seventh Super Bowl title in Tampa, British media outlet HITC reignited this debate about sporting fame.
As part of their argument, the website sounded out the social media followings of football's biggest stars, compared to that of Brady.
"Everton can boast a player with millions more followers than the NFL's greatest," HITC said in their report, referring to James Rodriguez's 46.5 million Instagram followers compared to Brady's 9.2 million.
As for Ronaldo and Messi, they boast a total Instagram following of 444 million people.
"Congratulations to Tom Brady on being the most popular athlete in the second most popular football," HITC finished up by saying.
kiyingiabdulkarim
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Am even hearing of that guy for the first time
cenasucks
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There are nearly 1.4billion people in India and I can assure u not even 0.1% know who tf is Tom Brady.
Syd007
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Tom Hardy is more famous Tom Brady 😁
ishti
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Americans are so ignorant and full of themselves. They think they are the centre of the universe and the Sun revolves around USA. If Tom Brady is famous in USA doesn't mean he is famous in the entire world. 90% of Asian & African may not even know him, same as South America and Australia. This is the 'World Map' as per Americans
MainChamp
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I didn’t even know this Tom guy until I saw this post which makes me the first person from my village to know him
D_ra
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According to international websites the top five most famous athletes are Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Lebron James.( not in order). Tom Brady is a superb athlete but the sport he plays( American football)is not as popular outside the USA as football, basketball,etc.. There's more to the world than the USA. Full stop.
agazk
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in India lingard is more famous than Tom Brady
tjr_46
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Americans are so ignorant and full of themselves. They think they are the centre of the universe and the Sun revolves around USA. If Tom Brady is famous in USA doesn't mean he is famous in the entire world. 90% of Asian & African may not even know him, same as South America and Australia. This is the 'World Map' as per Americans
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who the hack is Tom Brady? He ain't even more famous than TOM & JERRY