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how he dazzled George Clooney There are find few things in this world which take your eyes away from New York’s Empire State Building. Yet here we are Wednesday lunchtime, the sun kissing a table which lies in the shadows of the city’s most iconic presence. Rich Salgado’s aura ushers your eyes away from the modern-day mecca. Perhaps it’s his 6-foot-4, 320lbs frame? Rather, once he speaks, it’s hard not to listen. The man they call ‘Big Daddy’ was put on this planet to do something. Right now, it’s detailing his story layered with anecdotes of pizza, Tom Brady — Jr. and Snr. — Super Bowl parties and snoozing where others would not dare. Beyond this, it’s a life that takes some explaining. Who is Big Daddy? What does he do? Those are questions often asked, sometimes by the most recognizable faces. Rich Salgado and Tom Brady connected through one of the latter’s former teammates and forged a bond after the pair met at the quarterback’s first Super Bowl Salgado is an insu house rance agent, first and foremost. ‘I provide insurance just like State Farm or any insurance person out there. I do it all,’ he tells Dailymail.com. But for now he sits in his native New York, some 20 miles from his Garden City home, looking down upon the streets in which few walk taller. Salgado regales with anecdotes involving football’s most famous face, Tom Brady. Taking him to a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden, witnessing his first Super Bowl win and being invited bac business to the New England hotel to celebrate. Salgado doesn’t know how. ‘The big joke is, “Have you ever seen Where’s Waldo? And then there’s Big Daddy!” I always made it a point to be out in front,’ he says.