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Tom Brady retires 'for good' after 23 seasons in NFL
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Posted on 02/01/2023 5:35:43 AM PST by navysealdad

Legendary quarterback Tom Brady says he is retiring "for good" after 23 seasons in the NFL.

Brady, 45, first announced his retirement on this day last year but reversed his decision six weeks later, claiming he had "unfinished business".

He won seven Super Bowls in his career - six with the New England Patriots before his final triumph with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021.

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To: dfwgator

“He didn’t have Gronk this year, that was his security blanket.”

Same thing I was thinking!
I told my son this morning that not having a 6’6” battering ram with good hands sure makes a difference for an old QB.


61 posted on 02/01/2023 6:30:50 AM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. Shhhh....)
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To: JudyinCanada
I don’t know all the facts, but playing another year of pro football is hardly reason for divorce....at least not in my books.

ESPECIALLY when she goes extremely public with their personal issues, and spends lots of time with Jiu-Jitsu man.

Most healthy women are naturally hypergametic. Marrying Brady in the first place fits that model. My observant wife believes that for Gisele, being in control of him trumps that. So now she has a toy who will play along.
62 posted on 02/01/2023 6:41:17 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness

I have had personal experience with Markey.

A more dispecable creature has never walked the halls of government. Even Ted Kennedy was better than that creep.


63 posted on 02/01/2023 6:43:13 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: EvilCapitalist

“So he wrecked his marriage for 1 crappy season?“

My guess is that it was probably the other way around…

He took on 1 more season to get out of a crappy marriage.

Just a hunch tho..


64 posted on 02/01/2023 6:45:05 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I assume she gave him an ultimatum, it’s either football or me! and he choose football.

To me, it looks like SHE aired their personal matters in the most public way possible to get to set the narrative. Women marry soldiers, salesmen, roughnecks. She married a man who most regard as the greatest quarterback of all time, a job he was doing when they were already married. He is off for several months a year. He is home half of the season. And yes, he is a workaholic.

He hasn't had a whiff of cheating, while she has had Jiu-Jitsu man around for years.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Jay Cutler dumps her former-NFL husband BECAUSE he retired and didn't show enough ambition for her taste.
65 posted on 02/01/2023 6:46:22 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: woweeitsme

Re #2. Not long. When the first lawsuit over FTX hits, he will be looking for work.


66 posted on 02/01/2023 6:49:17 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Romo is the best commentator in a long time? What are you smoking? Romo is terrible.


67 posted on 02/01/2023 6:50:12 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: zeestephen

“Throwing the football, and talking about football, are two completely different skill sets.”

You might be right, but I think you’re forgetting that Brady has run every QB meeting for the last 20 years. That’s a lot of talking, that’s a lot of analysis.


68 posted on 02/01/2023 6:52:31 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: navysealdad

I wouldn’t be surprised that Brady tries to eventually reconcile with Giselle Bündchen, crazy as it sounds.


69 posted on 02/01/2023 6:56:22 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

I will say even after the divorce, he seems to be a good father to his kids.


70 posted on 02/01/2023 6:57:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: odawg

Ya’ll are brutal. I don’t care all that much for either of them but the rumor mill says he has been absent for a while, stringing her along when she asked him to spend more time together as a family. She is actually supposed to have been a hands on mom raising her own kids. Think about it, she is worth more money than him and gladly took a back seat to his career to be the steady influence in their kids lives. Gotta give her props. He promised her was done and in front of the world went back on his word to his family.


71 posted on 02/01/2023 7:20:57 AM PST by nurees (Oh...there is a NEW Mexico (Homer Simpson))
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To: RayChuang88

That’s what I imagine he is hoping for here. “Okay, I really am retired now—and look how I am thanking you for it all!”

Some might say he’s in the bargaining phase on his way to acceptance.

Or, God help us, these two publicity whores will get back together and we’ll have to suffer through more years of the drama.


72 posted on 02/01/2023 7:24:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dfwgator

The Spiccccceee.


73 posted on 02/01/2023 7:32:49 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: nurees

No, I only responded to a post as the reason for their divorce.

I saw her the other day on video or pictures. She is out kicking up her heels.

However, I know ziltch about why the marriage broke up, except his refusal to retire, if that is the case.


74 posted on 02/01/2023 7:55:30 AM PST by odawg
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To: Gay State Conservative

Good points.


75 posted on 02/01/2023 8:15:27 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: EvilCapitalist

He didn’t wreck anything, the marriage was already on the rocks. His ex wife is a 46 year old “model” so she’s already a mental case. The notion of a female model that age is preposterous given that beautiful 25 year olds are a dime a dozen. Her millions and contracts are simply irrational like fat Victoria’s secret “models”, a sign of the insanity of the times.

She wasn’t a wife - she was a middle aged feminist pretending to be a model. He’s better off out. A man in his prime with millions doesn’t need a wife.


76 posted on 02/01/2023 8:16:56 AM PST by libertarian66
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To: odawg

That’s true. I thought it would have lasted longer. I saw her in an interview a while back (maybe two years) and she seemed happy.


77 posted on 02/01/2023 8:17:37 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: woodbutcher1963

Romo was a middle of the road QB, but maybe the best commentator in a long time.

I can’t STAND to listen to Romo. He is like Cris Collingsworth on meth.


78 posted on 02/01/2023 8:37:11 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: JSM_Liberty

What is this assumption that a great athlete with millions in the bank, in his prime, looking great with hot young women available wants his middle aged man-faced wife back?

Successful men have no business being married. There’s too much to do and see out there. Brady has 20something playthings available WHY would Gisele be wanted back?


79 posted on 02/01/2023 8:47:12 AM PST by libertarian66
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To: ro_dreaming

I can’t stand Collinsworth.

So there!

“:)


80 posted on 02/01/2023 9:59:27 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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