Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft obsession just gave Tom Brady and Julian Edelman fresh material.
The former Steelers coach, now a NBC broadcaster, recently revealed that he has spent 12 years building an elaborate city inside Minecraft. Tomlin laid out the project in a 20-minute video on his YouTube channel, explaining how the game first caught his attention after he watched his kids play it in middle school.
“Over the course of time, they got just disinterested in the game. They go on to high school and so forth and off to college.
Their participation became less and less over the years. My participation probably at times increased,” Tomlin noted.
“At different times over the course of a 12-month calendar, I would have different levels of fixation on this. … I like to build.”
“I’ve always had an interest in architecture, Tomlin added. “So I started doing this creative city.”
That video tour of his Minecraft town has already topped a million views on YouTube, and it quickly made the rounds in football circles and on social media. That included a little trolling from two former Patriots who spent years tormenting Pittsburgh.
Julian Edelman fired first on Thursday night, posting a video on Instagram that mixed clips of him practicing on the field with footage of Tomlin building in Minecraft. “I admire your ability to multitask, coach,” Edelman wrote as part of the post.
The caption on the video took a shot at the idea that while Edelman and the Patriots were preparing for the 2017 AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, Tomlin was busy working on his digital city.
Tom Brady wasn’t about to pass up the chance to pile on. He jumped into the comments with: “Nothing like beating up on that Pittsburgh zone defense that they never seemed to adjust vs us.”
Brady’s history against Pittsburgh gives the joke some bite. He went 9-4 against the Steelers in the regular season and was 3-0 in the playoffs, though the first two postseason wins came when Bill Cowher was still the head coach.
His only playoff matchup against a Steelers team coached by Tomlin came in that 2017 AFC title game, when New England beat Pittsburgh 36-17 at Gillette Stadium. Brady went 32-of-42 for 384 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions, while Edelman finished with a touchdown and 118 total receiving yards.
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