Tom Brady Makes Bold Promise Ahead Of Monday’s Airing Of ‘Jeopardy’

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady enjoys accepting a big challenge, and Jeopardy was his next target.

Jeopardy will return to its regular schedule Monday, and James Holzhauer will also return. Let’s not forget that he is also known as “Jeopardy James.”

James has already won $1.6 million during his 22-game win streak, and fans expected him to add some more on Monday. Right before the episode, the Patriots quarterback made a huge proposal on Twitter. It was more like a challenge.

“If James loses on Jeopardy tonight I’ll eat a strawberry on IG live tomorrow,” he wrote.

If James loses on Jeopardy tonight I’ll eat a strawberry on IG live tomorrow.

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) May 20, 2019

If by any chance you don’t know, Brady doesn’t like strawberries at all.

Ken Jennings won $2,250,700 after 74 games in 2004. He has every top 10 slot for the highest single-game winnings. Jennings entered the show as an erudite computer scientist, and Holzhauer actually has a background in professional sports gambling.

Jennings defensed Holzhauer in a Sunday editorial for The Washington Post, and had words of praise for him.

“Even casual fans of the show have probably heard by now how Holzhauer is doing it: He’s a sports bettor who feels supremely comfortable wagering aggressively, and he cannily plays the game board from the bottom up, starting with the highest dollar values and amassing cash before the Daily Doubles have been found and while his poor opponents are still finding their feet.”

“But I count my blessings that I own at least one Jeopardy! distinction that Holzhauer can’t touch: I appeared on the show before the dawn of social media. Holzhauer has been met every night by a barrage of hot takes about his streak: He’s ‘broken the game.’ He’s ‘ruined the show.’ He’s ‘unfair’ to his competitors, or ‘boring’ to watch.”

Jennings applauded Holzhauer’s approach to the game.

“It’s not true, as some have implied, that Jeopardy! has long been a genteel scholar’s game of knowledge that this brash Vegas arriviste has soiled with his unseemly cash grab,” he wrote. “Winning on Jeopardy! has always been about out-earning your opponents, and the game pivots on four clues every game that allow players to risk their money: three Daily Doubles and one Final Jeopardy. That element of risk is called out in the name of the show, for crying out loud.

“That’s what we should appreciate about Holzhauer: the insane confidence of even trying to play Jeopardy! according to an untested personal strategy.”