7x Super Bowl winner Tom Brady beaten by Florida High School QB in a Mr. Beast Challenge

A Florida high school quarterback, Jake Balanovich, achieved the “impossible” by beating NFL legend Tom Brady in a throwing challenge.

On Saturday, Balanovich faced Brady in a challenge hosted by internet personality Mr. Beast. The contest pits super athletes against ordinary people for a prize. The high school senior from Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida, beat Brady in a 50-yard throwing contest for a $100,000 reward.

The challenge involved four balloons, each set 50 yards apart. The first person to hit all four balloons would emerge as the victor. Balanovich's high school football teammates were present to cheer him on as he achieved what is perhaps the dream of every high school quarterback prospect—to beat Tom Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Super Bowl MVP.

The former New England Patriots quarterback is the epitome of a figure many prospects aspire to become. TB12 passed for 89,214 yards before retiring from the NFL.

Balanovich completed 106 of 175 passes for 1,551 yards and 14 touchdowns in his recently-concluded senior high school season with Cypress Bay. With these figures, one can understand what it must have meant to him to beat the NFL's all-time passing leader.

Where did Tom Brady play high school football?

Tom Brady attended and played high school football at Juniper Serra High School in San Mateo, California. He was a multi-sport athlete, playing football, basketball, and baseball for the Padres before graduating in 1995.

Contrary to the magnitude of his prolific NFL career over two decades, Brady’s football career began as a backup quarterback for the junior varsity team at his high school. To underscore how much this reflects how he was evaluated then, the junior varsity team was 0-8 and had not scored a touchdown all year.

Notwithstanding, his time came when the starting quarterback got injured and he was called on to fill in. Tom Brady became the program's starting quarterback in his junior year until he graduated high school.

TB12 created tapes of his highlights to attract college scouts and coaches and sent them to schools he was interested in. Many of the college programs he contacted expressed interest in him.

Tom Brady's final five college options included Cal-Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Michigan, and Illinois. Eventually 1995, he joined the Michigan Wolverines and remained there for five years.

The New England Patriots drafted him in 2000, and he kicked off a 19-year association with the team before a final two-season stint at Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a brief retirement between 2019 and 2020.