Drew Bledsoe Threw Out One of Tom Brady’s First Autograph Cards

“To Drew Best of Luck!!” That’s the inscription Tom Brady wrote on a card he signed and handed to Drew Bledsoe as a thank-you for helping him during training camp in 2000—Brady’s rookie season. Bledsoe laughed, apparently assuming it was a joke from the sixth-round draft pick, then flicked the card into the garbage. That’s according to Rhode Island collector Stephen Blessing who claims his father, a former equipment manager for the New England Patriots, witnessed the exchange between Brady and Bledsoe. “Brady told Bledsoe that he wanted to give him his first autographed card,” Blessing says, recounting his dad’s…