Tom Brady and Peyton Manning may have cost each other plenty of Super Bowls amid their decades long rivalry as players, but they both respect a winner. So they had plenty of kind words for the newest members of their Super Bowl champions club.
Appearing on The Rich Eisen Show, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald - fresh off the first Super Bowl victory of his career - revealed that both Brady and Manning texted him after his Super Bowl win earlier this month.
"Tom Brady texted me - that was cool. Peyton Manning... I did text (Brady) and said 'thanks for stealing our OC,'" Macdonald said with a laugh.
Macdonald didn't go into specifics but it seemed that the message from both Hall of Fame quarterbacks amounted to "congratulations" on his team's Super Bowl win.
Macdonald & the Seahawks
In two short years with the Seattle Seahawks, Macdonald has worked wonders on the team. His first season was solid enough at 10-7 with Geno Smith as his starting QB, but that didn't get the team into the playoffs.
In the offseason, the Seahawks made the risky move to part ways with Smith and bring Sam Darnold on as their new starter and it promptly paid off. Darnold had an MVP-caliber season, but it was the defense that delivered some of the best performances that the team had seen since the famed "Legion of Boom" years.
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It all culminated in an NFC West title, the top seed in the conference, a trip to the Super Bowl and their second Lombardi trophy.
At 38 years of age, Macdonald still ranks among the youngest head coaches in the league. There's a very good chance that there are plenty of great years of football left to give the team and possibly even some more trips to the Super Bowl too.