Brady attended Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington graduating in 1981. He played soccer at Portland Community College in 1981-82 and won two Northwest championships, his soccer coach, Rudi Sommer, watched him kick 60 yard field goals with soccer balls at Civic Stadium and encouraged him to pursue a career in kicking footballs. He accepted a football scholarship from the University of Hawaii.[1]
He was a backup behind Richard Spelman as a sophomore and junior. As a senior, he was named the starter at placekicker, making 16 out of 20 field goals (80%), 20 out of 22 extra points (90.9%) and 68 points.
After the NFLPA strike was declared on the third week of the 1987 season, those games were canceled (reducing the 16 game season to 15) and the NFL decided that the games would be played with replacement players. On October 17, he was re-signed to replace an injured Zendejas and be a part of the Dallas replacement team that was given the mock name "Rhinestone Cowboys" by the media. He played one game against the Washington Redskins, where he made one extra point. He was released after the strike ended on October 20.[3]
Brady retired from football after four seasons and took a job in sales in the medical field. He is married to Christina Brady and has two children, Dakota and Dylan. Dylan was a placekicker at Brown University.
He currently lives in Long Beach, California and owns a medical device company manufacturing X-Ray aprons.