Unlike most men Brady already had six months off from work.
Ruining your children's life over a year? Most people retire a lot later than 45.
He made a promise. If my wife made me a promise to quit work, because she works too much, and broke the promise, it might be the end of the marriage.
It isn’t as though they need the money and he had a job waiting for him as a commentator, so it’s not like he was leaping into nothing. He just didn’t consider the marriage as important as his love of football.