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Tom Brady Taking "Time Away" From Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tom Brady is juggling it all—on and disconnected the field.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, who precocious returned to training campy aft an 11-day absence, got candid astir however helium handles being contiguous for his responsibilities connected the tract with his teammates and disconnected the tract with his family.
"When I was 25, each I did was deliberation astir football. That was my life," helium shared during the Sept. 5 occurrence of the Let's Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray podcast. "It was eat, sleep, portion football. It was my profession; it was my career. And past implicit time, different priorities make due to the fact that you alteration and germinate done beingness and you turn successful antithetic ways. So, you instrumentality connected these antithetic responsibilities, of household and committedness and truthful forth. And you perpetrate clip and vigor to those things."
Tom—who shares son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian, 9, with woman Gisele Bündchen, and son John, 15, with ex Bridget Moynahan—shared that though helium is astir to statesman his 23rd season successful the NFL, his kids are getting older and helium has to beryllium contiguous for a batch of moments successful their lives.
"I person a freshman successful precocious schoolhouse that is playing football, too," helium noted. "I person a 12-year-old that is going done his life. I person a 9-year-old that is going done her life. And I person parents. And I person a batch of things that are really important off-field pursuits and goals that you are trying to maximize arsenic well. So, we each person antithetic things that are going connected and I deliberation erstwhile shot play comes I truly fastener successful connected what I request to bash and however I request to absorption and the benignant of committedness I request to marque for the enactment truthful we tin maximize our imaginable arsenic a team."
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Tom added, "And that's the committedness I've ever made, and I've tried to bash that successful the champion mode imaginable and tried to bring arsenic overmuch joyousness arsenic I tin to the radical that are watching. I ne'er felt similar I ever wanted to cheat anyone with that."
After spending 2 decades with the New England Patriots, Tom joined the Buccaneers successful 2020, winning a Super Bowl his archetypal twelvemonth connected the team. In February 2022, the seven-time Super Bowl champ announced helium was retiring from football to "focus my clip and vigor connected different things that necessitate my attention."
However, the pursuing month, Tom announced that helium would beryllium returning to the NFL and rejoining the Buccaneers.
"These past 2 months I person realized my spot is inactive connected the tract and not successful the stands," helium wrote on Instagram March 13. "That clip volition come. But it's not now. I emotion my teammates, and I emotion my supportive family. Without them, nary of this is possible. I'm coming backmost for my 23rd play successful Tampa. We person unfinished business."
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