Tom Brady

Brady, whose career spanned 23 seasons and seven Super Bowl wins, announced his retirement in a social media post.

The Patriots drafted Brady in the sixth round of the 2000 N.F.L. in 2015 suspended Brady for five games after an investigation into whether the team purposely deflated footballs to gain in advantage in the 2015 A.F.C. Brady was linked to Coach Bill Belichick throughout his career in New England as the two shaped one of the league’s marquee dynasties. This season was his worst as a professional — the team finished with an 8-9 record and lost in the wild-card round of the playoffs to the Dallas Cowboys. He won the starting quarterback job midway through his second season in 2001, replacing the injured Drew Bledsoe, and led New England that season to its first Super Bowl victory. Brady spent two decades in New England, where he won six world championships, but did not come to new contract terms and left the team as an unrestricted free agent. That season came after he had left the New England Patriots, the franchise for which he had played his entire career to that point. Brady and the supermodel Gisele Bündchen, his wife of more than 13 years, But Brady threw for 4,694 passing yards, the third most in the league, while completing 66.8 percent of his passes. He founded the health and wellness company TB12 Sports with his longtime trainer Alex Guerrero. 1, 2022](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/01/sports/tom-brady-retires), that he would retire, but he [reversed his decision](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/sports/football/tom-brady-returning-buccaneers.html) after less than six weeks and returned to play. Brady, 45, exits the league as the winner of seven Super Bowls, an N.F.L.

Tom Brady, the most successful quarterback in NFL history, announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from the sport he has dominated for years.

“Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream. He initially announced his retirement exactly a year ago before deciding to return to the Buccaneers 40 days later, citing “unfinished business”. He also holds the NFL record for career passing touchdowns (649) and passing yards (89,214).

The seven-time Super Bowl champion originally stepped away from the sport last February.

You only get one super emotional retirement essay and I used mine up last year.” The seven-time Super Bowl champion announced his retirement in February last year only to reverse that decision 40 days later. Tom Brady has announced his retirement “for good”.

Tom Brady is widely regarded as the greatest NFL player of all time. He has won the Super Bowl seven times, and been the most valuable player from those ...

He is also the only player in NFL history to win more than five Super Bowls. Tom Brady is widely regarded as the greatest NFL player of all time. "Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion announced on a video posted on social media that he is retiring from NFL.

“I think I’ve been on the record dozens of times saying there’s no quarterback I’d rather have than Tom Brady, and I still feel that way,” Bill Belichick, the coach with whom Brady won six titles in New England, said in 2021. However, Tampa were weakened by injuries and Brady appeared affected by [off-field issues](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/28/tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchen-announce-divorce) as his final season fizzled out. It’s been an honor and a privilege,” wrote three-time NFL defensive player of the year JJ Watt on Twitter. The New York Post reported the deal The Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, later recalled that Brady introduced himself by saying: “I’m Tom Brady and I’m the best decision this organisation ever made.” He would go on to claim seven Super Bowl titles, three NFL MVP awards and nearly every significant quarterback record in league history. He also holds the NFL record for career passing touchdowns (649) and passing yards (89,214). The 45-year-old’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a losing record – the first in Brady’s career as a starter – and only limped into the playoffs because the other teams in the NFC South were even worse. He started as New England’s fourth-string quarterback and slowly worked his way up to become Drew Bledsoe’s back-up. Brady’s ruthless commitment to winning was legendary and it was only in his final season that there were signs his skills had begun to diminish, although even then he passed for 4,694 yards, the third most in the NFL. Other [more obscure statistics](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/tom-brady-retires-stats-crazy-nfl) are just as impressive: no other quarterback has played in a Super Bowl past the age of 40 – Brady played in three, winning two; his 35 playoff wins are more than 13 other teams have appeared in; and, remarkably, he has appeared in nearly a fifth of Super Bowls ever played. His seven Super Bowl wins – six with the

Seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady has announced his retirement 'for good'.

He leaves with record totals of 89,214 yards and 649 touchdowns in the regular season and 13,400 yards and 88 touchdowns in the play-offs to go with three league MVP awards and five Super Bowl MVPs. The seven-time Super Bowl champion announced his retirement in February last year Tom Brady has announced his retirement "for good".

The seven-time Super Bowl champion originally stepped away from the sport last February.

Love you all.” “Thank you for allowing me to live my absolute dream. [February 1, 2023]

The seven-time Super Bowl champion originally stepped away from the sport last February.

“Thank you for allowing me to live my absolute dream. The Patriots quote-tweeted Brady’s video by posting three goat emojis and added a GIF of Brady showing his six Super Bowl rings won at the franchise. Love you all.”

Tom Brady has officially called it a career, for real this time. After the debacle last year where the future Hall of Fame quarterback retired only to then ...

Brady prided himself on putting the team before himself, and for that reason he often took team-friendly deals so that the Patriots weren’t strapped for cash and could bring in key players to build out Super Bowl-winning rosters. The first came after the Patriots victory in Super Bowl XXXVI, which was the first of their storied dynasty. He was also Super Bowl MVP after the Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV, which is notable considering those games happened two decades apart yet Brady was still the most important player in each game regardless of age. The most infamous of Super Bowl losses came during the 2007 season. Tom Brady might have seven Super Bowl rings, but he’s played in more than just those games. Tom Brady has officially called it a career, for real this time.

Legendary quarterback and seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady says he is retiring after 23 seasons in the NFL.

"He is the fiercest competitor I have ever known and the ultimate champion. He led the Patriots to two decades of unprecedented dominance. His relentless pursuit of excellence drove him on a daily basis." "I am so proud of Tommy," said Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Brady - heralded as American football's GOAT (greatest of all time) - led his team to the play-offs in 20 of his 21 seasons as a starter. [Celebrate him with a mix of his greatest tunes and chats](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001923t#xtor=CS8-1000-%5BIn_Article_Promo_Box%5D-%5BSport_Promo_In_Article%5D-%5BSport_Promo_In_Article_BBCiPlayer%5D-%5BPS_SOUNDS~~m001923t~P_1XtraSalutesDrDre%5D) After returning to the game last March, Brady - a three-time NFL season MVP - posted the first losing record of his career in a difficult year on and off the field. "Thank you for allowing me to live my absolute dream. It was reinstated for the start of 2016 and he missed the first four games of the campaign. Love you all." Brady left the Patriots for the Bucs in 2020 and helped them win the title in his first season, being named the game's Most Valuable Player (MVP) for a fifth time. I could go on forever - there's too many.

Tom Brady confirmed he will be "retiring for good" in a short video released on social media, with hundreds of anecdotes involving the quarterback now ...

Amani Toomer was a huge part of the victorious Giants squad, leading the team in receptions and yards. The first of those came in 2008 when Brady was denied sporting immortality and the chance to complete an entire season unbeaten. “Because if I’d lost the Super Bowl and saw Tom Brady walk past our bus, I would just be like [swats hand]. "I know the process was a pretty big deal last time so when I woke up this morning I figured that I'll just press record and let you guys know first. Brady had called time on his legendary career exactly 12 months previous, only to complete a stunning U-turn and re-sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "Good morning guys, I'll get to the point right away, I'm retiring, for good,” he posted in a video on social media.

Give Brady his due but let Patrick Mahomes and all of the other young, exciting quarterbacks take it from here.

Louis Rams in the Super Bowl on the wing of a last-minute drive. Brady, in 2002, his second season and first as a starter, leading the Patriots over the St. Slowly, surely, carefully, he would walk from the huddle toward his center, line up his receivers and survey the scene, tall, sure, and oh-so-confident. And then — snap — Brady would deliver a sudden, perfectly placed bolt to his receivers. He did this so often and for so many years (46 fourth-quarter comebacks, 58 game-winning drives) that it took effort to keep from becoming numb to the certainty. awards and a narrative for the ages: the skinny, slow, middle-round draft pick climbs his way to a place on football’s Mount Rushmore, sits atop it, stays and stays. The safe bet was that Brady would keep going, maybe even try to play until he was 50, perhaps for the San Francisco 49ers, his beloved boyhood team. for good,” he said in his video, which, fittingly, he appeared to have shot while hanging out on a beach. Remember that last year on this date, Brady also announced he was leaving the game. Brady’s 13-year marriage to the model Gisele Bündchen ended in divorce last year. They are young, confident and collected — Tom Brady traits — and they even offer a little more. Brady nodded to that hiccup in his Instagram post this morning.

The N.F.L.'s greatest quarterback seemed ageless right up until his first retirement. Then he came back. And now he is retiring again, presumably for good.

He also threw an interception on the Cowboys’ five-yard line in the second quarter—an odd, wobbly little lob to a defender in the back of the end zone. He threw for four thousand six hundred and ninety-four yards, the third most of any quarterback in the league. Along the way, he also threw two touchdown passes in three minutes to beat the New Orleans Saints, 17–16, in a Monday Night Football game in early December, thus leading the Bucs in one of the most improbable fourth-quarter comebacks in N.F.L. Video of him breaking a tablet on the sideline in frustration also went viral. In the interim, his name was caught up in a tampering investigation; his marriage came to a very public end; video of him yelling at his terrible offensive line went viral. [first retired](https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/tom-brady-never-got-old), even though he was, back then, forty-four years old and the holder of nearly every record that matters, a man who had nothing to prove.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion originally stepped away from the sport last February.

Love you all.” “Thank you for allowing me to live my absolute dream. [February 1, 2023]

The debates on sports talk shows and in barbershops about who is the greatest football player of all time will always start with Tom Brady.

“All of us have to go out on our terms, or we won’t be happy, and most of us don’t get to leave on our own terms,” said Smith, who retired after the 2021 season, his 11th in the N.F.L. Brady himself was a major shareholder in FTX, [according to a court document](https://www.thestreet.com/investors/ftx-collapse-tom-brady-and-powerful-billionaires-lose-big), and his stake went from tens of millions of dollars to virtually zero. South, was the worst in the N.F.L. This year’s Buccaneers finished with the worst record (8-9) of any team for which Brady was the full-time starter in his N.F.L. His season and his career ended in a 31-14 [loss to the Dallas Cowboys](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/sports/football/cowboys-buccaneers-score-tom-brady.html) in an N.F.C. [Brady kicked Falcons defensive lineman Grady Jarrett ](https://twitter.com/SpaceButlerXIII/status/1579166412505223168?s=20&t=PFdiYpd2DvXY9g6C_bpzsw)at the end of a play in a Week 5 win and was fined $11,139 by the N.F.L. In the postseason loss to Dallas, Brady [tried to slide tackle Cowboys safety Malik Hooker](https://twitter.com/jonmachota/status/1616910000634597376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1616910000634597376%7Ctwgr%5E41bf0cd7a26e4df6fae04aa3c5f75b1925bdbc74%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbucswire.usatoday.com%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fnfl-news-tom-brady-fined-bucs-cowboys-tripping%2F). (The slide tackle, illegal in football, is allowed in soccer.) The N.F.L. The Buccaneers had built one of the best offensive lines in the league. Brady himself missed 11 days in training camp to attend to what Coach Todd Bowles called “some personal things.” His absence generated speculation about Brady and his relationship with the former model Gisele Bündchen. [announced his retirement again](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/sports/football/tom-brady-retires.html) on Wednesday, saying he meant it this time, did not have the kind of year, either on the field or off, that he had been used to when he returned to the Buccaneers at age 45. He is the most accomplished player in N.F.L.

The seven-time Super Bowl winner was in a reminiscing mood after announcing his retirement from the NFL at the age of 45 and was quick to thank those who ...

She said: "Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. However, she then wrote about her love for step-son Jack, who is two years older than her own child Benjamin. After 13 years of marriage to Bundchen the pair ['"ran out of options"](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/american-sports/tom-brady-retirement-payton-nfl-29107422) to continue his playing career. [Tom Brady](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/tom-brady) has shared a rarely seen picture of himself with ex Bridget Moynahan after announcing his [NFL](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/nfl) retirement after 23 seasons. [social media video](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/american-sports/tom-brady-statement-nfl-retirement-29106489) on Wednesday which included a thanks to his family, friends, team-mates and competitors.

NFL legend Tom Brady has confirmed his second, and seemingly final, retirement - but there was one key figure from his career missing from his farewell ...

After the announcement, [the Patriots issued two classy tweets to their former star](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/american-sports/tom-brady-nfl-newengland-patriots-29106521), posting three goat emojis when quote tweeting his announcement video. The now 45-year-old had reportedly wanted a long-term contract to ensure he saw out his career at the franchise, whilst Belichick believed he had other options. Brady spent 20 seasons with the Patriots, and as well as the six Super Bowls he also claimed three MVP awards. The Patriots were left to rue his release, They worked together from 2001 to 2019, during which time the Patriots played in nine Super Bowls, more than any other NFL franchise, and won six. Furthermore his replacement, Mac Jones, endured a difficult season in his old position.

Brady did not quit because he could no longer play up to his standards. The reality is the glaring, physical decline just never came.

In the Super Bowl, Brady beat the [Rams](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/rams/) (twice), [Panthers](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/panthers/), [Eagles](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/eagles/), [Seahawks](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/seahawks/), [Falcons](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/falcons/) and [Chiefs](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/chiefs/). So did 34-year-old [Russell Wilson](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/russell-wilson-iJrFtUU6uxSN7miK/). It’s true Brady couldn’t lift his team as he has in the past, but the Bucs did make the playoffs. That’s how he got to be Brady, and he certainly didn’t lose confidence. Brady had to lead game-winning drives for the Bucs to prevail in five of their victories. The Bucs would have loved to have had him back. Proving doubters wrong and redefining impossible always have been his motivators. [Justin Herbert](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/justin-herbert-9NHrY7HxyKCR40Kh/). The only quarterbacks in the league with more passing yards this season were Patrick Mahomes and It has been 15 years since Brady missed a game because he was not healthy enough to play. Many have been waiting for the glaring, physical decline of the now-45-year-old for over a decade. He beat the [Bills](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/bills/), the poor Bills, over and over — his record against them was 33-3.

Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton finished 35-of-48 for 330 yards passing with two touchdowns to receiver Brandon Marshall and one interception. Kicker Matt Prater ...

Denver quarterback Brock Osweiler got the start against New England, and rallied the Broncos back after a 21-7 deficit in the fourth quarter, to pull even at 24 at the end of regulation. This win was crucial en route to the final game on our list… Manning finished the game 32-of-43 for exactly 400 yards and two touchdowns; one to Demaryius Thomas and one to Jacob Tamme. Manning came out on top, leading the Broncos to Super Bowl XLVIII against the Seattle Seahawks. Brady and the Denver Broncos have clashed many times over the years, most of the games resulting in classic quarterback duels, championship matchups and memorable moments. The New England Patriots were just coming off of their early 2000s dynasty, winning Super Bowls in 2001, 2003 and 2004.