Tom Brady's bizarre $5,000 milk order forced Bill Belichick to secretly step in to save his friendship with Antonio Brown

S pending $5,000 on milk sounds unbelievable , but apparently, that was the price Bill Belichick was willing to pay to prevent a friendship between Tom Brady and Antonio Brown from falling apart . The former New England Patriots head coach revealed that he secretly replaced an order of specialty milk worth $5,000.

The bizarre story dates back to the time when Brady, Brown and Belichick were together in New England. Brown was staying at Brady's house and probably wanted to do something nice for his teammate b y ordering a special type of milk that the quarterback liked. However, what was supposed to be a thoughtful gesture quickly turned into an expensive problem. The delivery somehow ended up sitting in the Patriots' mailroom for too long, eventually spoiling before it could reach Brady.

Belichick's secret move to protect Brady and Brown's relationship

The situation became even more awkward when the team had to deal with an expense report for the $5,000 milk order. Rather than allowing the incident to damage the relationship between the two teammates, Belichick decided to handle the problem himself.

The former coach purchased another order of the same specialty milk, spending another $5,000 , and delivered it to Brady, making it appear as though the replacement had come directly from Brown. Belichick wanted to avoid turning a simple gift into an unnecessary issue between the two players as keeping the peace was worth the additional expense, even if it meant secretly taking care of the problem himself.

An outrageous amount of money for milk to keep the peace

Belichick's story offers another unusual look at how much he was willing to do to maintain a healthy locker room during his Patriots tenure . It remains unclear why Brady was drinking that particular type of milk or what made it worth such an extraordinary amount of money.