Bruschi was named the 2005 NFL Comeback Player of the Year, and the recipient of both the Ed Block Courage Award and the Maxwell Football Club’s Spirit Award.Bruschi was the 2006 recipient of the Senator Paul E. Tsongas Award for Exemplary Public Service and the 2010 Walter Camp Alumni Award for distinguishing himself in the pursuit of excellence as an athlete, in his personal career and in doing good works for others. Bruschi had his second stroke on July 4. FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, Tedy Bruschi speaks during an interview at the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII media center in New York. "Tedy is recovering well, and would like to thank the nurses, doctors and staff at Sturdy Memorial Hospital for all they have done. I guess I’m fulfilling the Patriot role. He talked through the steps of how they would make it happen.He’s known all of them for years, and said it’s already “so fun’’ working with Moss, his teammate on the Patriot in 2007 and ’08.
“Tedy and his family thank you for your ongoing encouragement, and kindly ask for privacy at this time.” Tedy is recovering well,” the family said in the statement, according to ESPN. ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" panel will look very familiar to New England Patriots fans this fall. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with other former players and coaches in support of the Wounded Warrior Project.A 2013 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Bruschi attended the University of Arizona where he was a two-time consensus All-American (1994 and 1995) and winner of the 1995 Morris Trophy as the PAC-10’s best defensive lineman, compiling 185 tackles (137 solos), with 74 tackles for loss, and tying the NCAA Division I-A sack record (52). In a first-person account for Men'sHealth published in 2014, Bruschi wrote, "A blood clot had formed in my body, and it found a sort of a shortcut through my heart defect to my brain. Ex-Patriot, ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi recovering after second stroke. Everyone is talking about Kansas City and how good they are, and there are a couple of the other usual suspects in the AFC.“And I’m really trying to look at this as objectively as I possibly can, but I do see them in the Super Bowl at least.’’While Bruschi, 46, expects to be watching a typically excellent season from the Patriots, he’ll be doing so in a slightly different role at ESPN.When Bruschi, who spent 13 seasons as a popular Patriots linebacker and has now been at ESPN for 10, was asked how he sees the defending champions faring this year, he didn’t just predict that they would at least return to the Super Bowl. We've received your submission.He has had to prove himself with reps on “SportsCenter” and every show imaginable. After suffering a stroke in February 2005, he endured months of rehabilitation before being medically cleared to play football and returning to the lineup in October. Let’s assume they get the bye.Tedy Bruschi is one of the few that takes it to an even higher level than that.“So if they’re in the AFC Championship Game, who could give them a tough time? "Bruschi returned to the field in the middle of the following season and was named the 2005 NFL Comeback Player of the Year before playing three more seasons and retiring in 2009. I’m a place in my life where Sundays is something I can do.’’“Moving to Sunday has been talked about before in my conversations with some people there but it never really was OK for me to give up my weekends with my kids at a certain times,’’ said Bruschi, who has three teenaged sons with his wife, Heidi.
Now Bruschi is showing what a two-time stroke survivor can do.
He became an ESPN analyst after retirement. Bruschi brings insightful analysis to ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. Tedy Bruschi Getty Images ESPN is promoting Tedy Bruschi to the first team, The Post has learned. We’ve got the quarterback and we’ve got the Hall of Fame wide receiver, we’ve got the outspoken head coach. I say yes, they’ll be in the running for the top two seeds. Since then he's run a 7-mile road race, and every Sunday during the NFL season he'll appear on ESPN's "NFL Countdown" show.