Tom brady press conference tomorrow pro#

In the gallows lexicon of pro football, NFL stands for “Not for Long.”īrady has, of course, been the longest-running exception to football’s short-timer rule. The article focused on what was, even then, the miracle of Brady’s longevity in a league where the average player’s career lasted just over three years. I had gotten to know Brady and his family while researching a story for The New York Times Magazine in the lead-up to what would be his fourth Super Bowl championship, a 28–24 victory for the New England Patriots over the Seattle Seahawks, in 2015. “When I don’t have the purpose of football, I know that’s going to be a really hard thing for me.” In other words, Brady knew how scary retirement would be-much scarier to him than any 300-pound pass rusher ever was. “You need a purpose when you wake up every morning,” Brady told me, his voice turning quite serious. In particular, I’ve been thinking about a slightly different follow-up question I posed to him on the same theme: whether he worried that a vacuum might await him on the other side of quitting. I’ve been thinking about that discussion since Brady dropped his semi-surprising “I’m retiring, for good” video. But then, Brady was still an active football player at the time, with years left to run in an epic career that finally ended last week after 23 years. I took the glibness of Brady’s answer as a sign that he wasn’t particularly worried about the total commitment to football that he had so proudly made, and that had been such a celebrated hallmark of his afterthought-to-legend story. “I’m not a musician, not an artist,” he told me, among other noninterests and non-hobbies. Rather successfully, too, and for a long time.īrady confirmed the question’s premise that, yes, football meant pretty much everything to him and he could not imagine doing anything else with himself.

This was, in retrospect, kind of a duh question to put to someone who played, you know, the game of football for a living. A few years ago, I asked Tom Brady if he ever worried that too much of his life was consumed by the game of football.

Tom brady press conference tomorrow