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  1 year too late to save his marriage…
context: I'll believe it once the new NFL season starts. >
  
  There’s already a million rumors flying around. It’s highly likely he will return. 
  Vikings might slide in and give Cousins the kick. Raider rumors after the Carr departure. Even rumors of the Niners signing Brady while starting Purdy from time to time. >
  
  It’s not highly likely, it’s possible.
  Brady can still play and teams would still want him, but there isn’t a good reason to think he isn’t retired for good >
  
  I think the divorce from his wife and the fact this season he was not that good were key factors this time especially when his family wanted him to retire last year.. >
  
  He can't be patriots good again because the whole team is why he was good. It took years to build the team he won with, and that can't be recreated. Amazing player, but held up by an amazing cast of team mates.
  He was fooling himself trying to prove to everyone that it was just him being amazing. >
  
  Not to take away from my own team but he came to Tampa and won his first year, should have made the SB last year, and still plays like a top QB in spite of injuries and questionable play calling. >
  
  Him and gronk went to Tampa and won. >
  
  The difference is, if Brady comes to Tampa without Gronk, we were still super bowl contenders immediately with our WRs and front 7. Send Gronk without Brady and we're back to 9-7 and missing the playoffs. 
  Yes, obviously, he needs a good team around him but he did shut up the people that assumed he was only good because of the Patriots' system. >
  
  Winston redemption arc incoming >
  
  Please stop lol >
  
  Next headline
  Tom Brady unretires 1 year after unretiring. >
  
  And loses another model wife >
  
  He would need to find one first. 
  Maybe this time he finds one with a lower net worth than him. >
  
  The AT&T chick? >
  
  You keep Lily away from this no-eating-strawberries pyschopath! >
  
  Yet another reason to not like him, strawberries are freaking delicious! (Unless you are allegic). >
  
  They can still be delicious to people who are allergic. Makes it even worse for them. >
  
  yup, new a girl who was allergic. She would eat a couple and her cheeks would turn red. But shed stop after 1 or 2 because anymore would make things much worse. >
  
  I fucked around eating cashews occasionally despite getting low grade allergy symptoms until the day I ended up covered in itchy hives. >
  
  I knew I had a high grade allergy. Tried a half on my tongue without swallowing. Tongue immediately went numb and started blistering. Knew I was still very allergic after that.
  Ever chewed benadryl? It don't taste nice >
  
  Now I can finally recruit him for my flag football team. >
  
  As long as you don't expect him to move around. He may have records but his legs still work like a newborn foal's >
  
  You are vastly underestimating how much more athletic "slow" NFL players are compared to the general population. >
  
  I'm not comparing to the general population. 
  I'm comparing to those that play flag football and other pickup sports regularly.
  Stop defending him. He is slow. Period.  Compared to some fat dude at their computer, yeah he's fast. But so is a toddler. >
  
  Bro's really over here pretending his flag football team gonna pwn NFL players >
  
  Bros over here looking at facts.
  The average man (overall including people not in great shape) can run the 40 yard dash in 5.5 seconds.
  The average for the NFL (including linemen etc) is 4.53 seconds.
  TB12 did it is 5.28 seconds.
  Just facts here. The dude is slow. He is right there with the Everyman stat. Toss him against people that have something to prove and he is slow.
  No reason to defend him. He can throw the ball amazingly, could read coverage and call plays as well. But the fact remains he can't get out of his own way. >
  
  The average man cannot run a 5.5 40. You are off your fuckin rocker.
  I was "fast" in high school, and ran in the 4.7's electronic.
  20 years later, still playing intramural sports, staying active, etc. I'm prob running around a 5.5. 
  No chance in hell, that is the average. >
  
  A lot of those people ran 7+ seconds..
  I don't think you understand what the average American male looks like....
  5'9 200lbs, 40+ inch waist... >
  
  And several ran between 5-6 despite being desk jockeys. There's a big difference between 'average American' and merely physically average. A lot of these could be quite a bit faster if they simply had better form. >
  
  His definition of retirement is like when relatives wanna 'borrow' money lol. The words mean different things to different people. >
  
  Any money handed to other family members is always a gift. NEVER expect it back. >
  
  Hard disagree I know which family members will pay me back ( even if its slowly)  and which ones any money given will be a gift that is forgotten tomorrow.  
  I will agree though that if it's a significant amount that not having it repaid will change the relationship, make sure you KNOW who you are lending the money to or else you're just trading a decent relationship for a strained one  with money as the instigator. >
  
  You can hard disagree but my point is in general.
  Generally you don't give money to family and expect it back. Trust me on this.
  I have family that would pay it back and I paid back my family as well. But in general, money and family don't mix. >
  
  And I totally disagree I think a big reason our society lacks accountability is because people are afraid to have expectations and act on unmet expectations.   
  If I can't trust  people to live up to their words and our agreements family or not what's the point of trusting and engaging with anyone ?   
  I totally agree family and money don't mix but I also know they don't live in bubbles, I rather lend discerningly  than just hand money off  and forget it ever happened.   
  Why even put myself in that situation in the  first place and give it away if I have to pretend it didn't matter to me.? >
  
  You don’t pretend. You only give if you can afford to never see that money again. Honestly I extend that logic to any money I lend. >
  
  So far, Tom Brady is on track to earn one further merit: the most retirements from the NFL. >
  
  Brett Favre has entered the chat >
  
  He doesn't even need the NFL to bankroll him anymore, he's got the taxpayers of Mississippi for that now. >
  
  Do go on >
  
  yep. Favre is a class A piece of shit who deserves prison for this. I don’t even say that as a biased Vikings fan lol >
  
  I grew up in Bears country (though not a Bears die hard) and listening to the announcers suck his dick week after week for years (looking at you, the Sainted John Madden), I’ve rarely hated any athlete more than Favre. 
  Mississippi will never send his scummy ass to jail. >
  
  QB retirements are like McD’s discontinuing the McRib >
  
  It's REALLY discontinued this time. >
  
  So did he just un-retire to piss off Gisele or what? Lol >
  
  I think he retired to try to save his marriage, realized it was done, and then unretired so he could go out on his own terms. It makes the most sense to me from the timeline and his statements and attitudes. >
  
  From what I heard the divorce was spurred from his unretirement as he was supposedly going to focus on his family, so Giselle was fed up when he reneged on that. >
  
  I thought he also made comments that made it sound like he was bored at home with his family? And Gisele was like “dude wtf”? >
  
  Marriage and kids looks 2 parts boring and 5 parts infuriating from the outside, so I don't blame him. >
  
  Maybe for normal people but he’s rich >
  
  Cool!  Where can I buy his last touchdown ball?  That’ll double in value in no time! >
  
  I hate to see this and it's the same story with so many great athletes. They quit and come back, quit and come back, until their legacy is trashed. Just go out on the top of your game and don't worry about whether you still have what it takes to win just one more championship. >
  
  I'm of that mind as well - or was until I read a excerpt from an interview on a show or podcast, might even have been a weekly show Tom Brady does. 
  Steve Young really put some perspective on it that was kind of touching, but also kind of funny. 
  Retiring, especially at the top of your game sounds great, but these guys start thinking about what they're going to do with their time, and realize that football is all they know.  
  I get that it's hard to fathom or have sympathy for people who have more money in their daily checking accounts than many of us will see in a lifetime, but, and this isn't his exact words, but they're close, Young was saying he was thinking, "but I suck at everything else."  
  I found it pretty insightful, and humanizing. >
  
  Maybe that's a lesson to not devote your entire life and personality to any one thing and maybe learn humility so you don't have to be amazing at everything you do to enjoy yourself. Everyone sucks at things they've never done or put any effort into. >
  
  If you’re aiming to be the literal best in any sport then usually that’s all you know. Sure you can have other hobbies but for work which encompasses most of our lives top tier professional athletes only know their one profession. Tom Brady is a GOAT and you don’t become a GOAT without dedicating yourself to your craft. >
  
  I don't understand how people don't realize this sentiment. Anyone who becomes a professional athlete, they devote their life, usually from a very early age. It becomes their religion and their whole personality. Sure, you can say that's sad or you don't agree with it, but I think it has good and bad aspects--they have no life outside their respective sport, but they they also found their purpose (whereas most people spend a lifetime searching- and that's fine too). In Brady's case, he is and could potentially the best quarterback of all time, so everything I said previous about professional athletes is a thousand-fold for someone like him. 
  There is a reason there are only a handful of people that go down in history. Any scientist, engineer, author, actor, athlete, or any other profession that is remembered live their career. Extraordinary people don't do part-time, it takes sacrifice, discipline, and so many other traits to rise above the rest. And most people just want to have a job and maybe do it very well or just adequate or they hate it and just want to clock out. And that's totally okay!
  I know people will joke about Tom Brady and his retirement-- I mean we are on this subreddit, but I feel for him. Yeah, it's easy to not feel pity for a multi-millionaire who lived a life that people dream of, but that's doesn't mean we can't be empathetic. The guy has played football all his life, played in the NFL his entire adult life. When he talks about football, or discusses the competitive side of the sport, you can tell he truly loves it. Not to be funny or hyperbolic, but he probably loves it more than anything else in his life. It's like a relationship and now he has to part ways and that sucks for him. It would suck for anyone that has to leave behind anything they love. >
  
  When my grandfather retired he was only out of work for a month before he tried to go back. Humans have an innate desire to want to be productive and do things. We want to have a purpose in life. For Tom Brady, that purpose is football. We wouldn’t demean the retired electrician for only doing his trade his entire life or a teacher for only teaching, why do it to one of the greatest football players of all time? >
  
  Brett Favre started this nonsense. TB could have gone out a champion instead of limping to the barn in his “last” season. 
  I doubt he will stay retired. >
  
  Brett Favre: heavy breathing
  Everyone else: Don’t do it, man >
  
  Retired from the BUCS. >
  
  He was a free agent after this year anyway. >
  
  Too late. Already burned your personal life to the ground. Might as well keep going. >
  
  What would be the market value of the previous retirement football? >
  
  Tom Brady retires from the NFL one year after retiring from the NFL one year after retiring from the NFL >
  
  I look forward to his retirement in 2024. >
  
  Don’t you mean 2025? >
  
  He'll probably be sporting a mullet and living in a single-wide in the panhandle after his divorce and recent investments as well. Sleeveless t-shirts and Naddy Light here we come! >
  
  I would buy TB12 crap just to see this happen. >
  
  He must be a fan of The Who. >
  
  The boy who cried retirement. >
  
  So Tom considering all that happened since your first retirement “Was it worth it, both to your personal and professional life-exclusive of your paycheck? Oh and how is your FTX account doing these days? Must be pretty good with your commercial inviting everyone to join you in FTX” >
  
  I personally felt he came back this last year because he happened to lose most of his personal Fortune through ftx. I'll be interested to see if this retirement sticks. >
  
  You think Tom Brady invested most of his money in FTX? No shot. >
  
  Ten bucks says he'll report to the Saskatchewan RoughRiders training camp in the spring. >
  
  “RoughRiders 12, Rough Riders 19.”
  My favorite Martin Short joke >
  
  Who cares at this point? >
  
  Fool me once, Tom >
  
  The greatest retirer the game has ever seen.  Just watch him do it again. >
  
  Dudes trying real hard to out do Brett Favre. >
  
  Yeah, but a great season like that was totally worth blowing up his marriage over. >
  
  He just can't help himself to retire during super bowl week again. Pfffff >
  
  He couldn't bear not having the attention on him. He's so gross. >
  
  I made the same comment in a different thread about tawm brodi, cept it was worded more aggressively, and I gotdownvoted 28 times and counting :D >
  
  Blew up his marriage to have one more shitty year on the Tampa Bay Bucs, what a chad >
  
  If 4600 yards, 25TDs, only 9 interceptions and a playoff run is a shitty year, you must not know much about football. >
  
  He himself did great, Todd bowels and lefty have to be the worst coaching combo in nfl history >
  
  He retired from retiring from retiring. >
  
  I’ll believe it after we go two seasons without him taking a snap. >
  
  At this time next year, Tom Brady will be retiring from the NFL. >
  
  Just needed to throw away his family first. >
  
  “Want to see me throw my family over them mountains?” >
  
  I just don't understand why he came back last year to a mediocre team. It'd be one thing if Tampa Bay had a legit shot, but it was clear they were not the same team as before. The offensive line was decimated. Kind of surprised he isn't giving the Raiders a chance with their offensive talent and reuniting with Josh McDaniels. >
  
  That's crazy. His wife left him all because he thought he still got a shot.  Now he looks very ill. I hope he figure things out. >
  
  He most likely came back because retirement couldn’t save his marriage.  With that said, it’s crazy to think that he does have things figured out.  He has a quarter billion dollars and gets to now bang the hottest pieces of ass on the planet. >
  
  NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS NARCISSTIC FOOL. >
  
  hate clicks aren't distinguishable from other clicks, Reddit thinks you care >
  
  And 1 year before he retires again. >
  
  Two more times and he can break MJ’s record! >
  
  But can he hit the curveball? >
  
  Oh how nice then he'll have more time for his divorce lawyer >
  
  So we'll see him in the practice field in June? >
  
  I swear, this time there really is a wolf attacking the flock... >
  
  Next year, just to do something different, I hear Tom Brady’s going to retire from the NFL. >
  
  He just didn't know how to divorce his wife that's why he doubled down on I love playing and I'm bored at home. >
  
  if he had done it previously he would have gone out on top with his marriage still intact. >
  
  If you retire you shouldn’t be able to come back. >
  
  he'll be back before the next season starts >
  
  Until he retires again in 2024 after whatever team he's on doesn't make it to the super bowl. >
  
  Can't wait for his announcement next year that he's retiring again. >
  
  I just had a flashback to the play this year where the bucs gave the ball to their running back to throw a pass and he fucking threw it to Brady who tripped over himself and intentionally tripped the defender and got flagged. It was gloriously embarrassing. >
  
  And 1 year before retiring from the nfl >
  
  Are his deflated balls going to the Hall of Fame or will his ex-wife hang onto them?      /s >
  
  Hopefully it sticks this time. >
  
  This feels like a good place to make my totally ridiculous prediction of Tom Brady being the first player to win a superbowl after retiring due to advances in de-aging science >
  
  He already lost his wife, he's a single guy with not much else going on for himself, gives us another year Tom! >
  
  I'll believe it when Brady doesn't show up for a game. >
  
  Watch out Favre, he’s after your record >
  
  It’s weird how his now ex-wife managed to be the world’s top supermodel and NOT abandon her family. Took a break to raise their children alone and is restoring her career post divorce. 
  The GOAT >
  
  Aka free agent. See you next year! >
  
  His retirement message has left me deflated. >
  
  Speaking of which, I'd think that partially deflating a football would reduce its performance, not boost it. >
  
  My husband used to work for a store, this workmate quitted his job, went to work somewhere else, they had a farewell party for him, then he came back to the store 3 weeks later, he did the same thing three more times later….at least they they stop throwing parties for him. >
  
  gotta love just falling into a job that will pay more than his football paycheck >
  
  Dude really un-retired in 2022 just out of spite because Adam Schefter broke his retirement news before he could have his emotional press conference. >
  
  I’m just glad Tom will have more time to kiss his son on the lips. >
  
  Maybe we should call him “Tom Maybe”. >
  
  Is it gonna retire from being a dick? >
  
  Doubt it. 
  Isn't that the TB12 Brand? >
  
  I’m surprised that he didn’t wait for Super Bowl Sunday to make the announcement so he could focus all the attention on him. >
  
  Nah, can't do that when he didn't even make I past the wildcard round.
  The attention would be on him NOT BEING in the game.