Tom Brady spent his first divorced Christmas alone in a hotel. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers played on Christmas Day, so Tom was focused on that, all while Gisele Bundchen took their kids to Brazil to celebrate the holiday with her family. I assume Bridget Moynahan had Jack in New York on Christmas day as well. Tom spoke about his Christmas plans last week in a podcast interview:
“I’m gonna learn how to deal with Christmas Eve in a hotel, and I’m gonna have to learn how to deal with Christmas and Christmas night and still go out there and be a professional,” he said when asked what he “learned from this football season.” “It’ll be a new experience that I’ve never had before that I’m gonna learn how to deal with … I think that’s what life’s about.”
Brady, who will join his Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the field on Christmas Day, will instead spend time with his kids on Dec. 26.
“And then look forward to celebrating Christmas with my kids the day after, which is, you know, just part of what football season has been for a long time,” he continued. “So it’s just, again, emotional aspects that allow us to thrive.”
Is that sad-sack enough for you? For what it’s worth, Gisele brought the kids back to Florida so that Tom could spend some time with them after Christmas. It also looks like Tom had to do all of the Christmas preparations himself, from decorating the house to putting up the stockings and shopping for his kids. In case you’re wondering if Tom is starting to understand all of Gisele’s emotional labor and childrearing labor he gave up for football, the answer is no, he still doesn’t get it. He gave another interview about whether he’s now ready to retire from football.
Tom Brady fans can rest easy that the GOAT quarterback doesn’t seem to be retiring anytime soon, despite a discouraging season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFL star, 45, joined co-hosts Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald on his Let’s Go! weekly podcast Monday to discuss the season and his near-future with football.
“I think next time I decide to retire, that’s it for me,” Brady said with a laugh, as he famously “unretired” from the sport 40 days after temporarily calling it quits earlier this year. “So whenever that day comes, we’ll figure it out.”
As for whether Brady can truly picture himself stepping away from the NFL, he replied, “I really don’t. I think what I really realized last year was you’ve got to be really sure to do that. And for me, you know, a lot of people have kind of gone through this situation. I’m going to take my time, whenever that time does come.”
Despite having already been eliminated from the playoffs this season, Brady and the Bucs ended on a high note, defeating the Arizona Cardinals 19-16 in overtime on Christmas Day.
On last week’s Let’s Go!, Brady told Gray there has been much he’s learned this year, including some lessons he wasn’t willing to discuss publicly. “A lot of them are very personal that I really don’t care to share. I really don’t,” Brady said on the SiriusXM podcast. “We all have physical, mental, emotional aspects to us that are challenged each year. Some years you are challenged a little more physically and you gotta overcome adversities physically.”
As far as play mobility, he reminded his listeners that this year he “took a big shot” in his shoulder, but was able to “deal with it” and move on.
Following Tampa Bay’s eighth loss of the season — and Brady’s first season losing eight at all — he admitted, “It’s hard to show up every day to the media” when he’s losing.
“It’s not very fun,” added Brady, who said he has “a lot more empathy for guys who” are able to remain composed during a losing season. “It’s something I haven’t had to deal with before.”
This 45-year-old man spent Christmas alone in a hotel room, away from his kids, all to chase his only love, football. I mean… that’s his priority. It’s still his priority, and he’s not letting go of that dream anytime soon. I don’t blame Gisele for getting the f–k out, and she’s never looked happier! I feel sad for all of them though – the kids because he doesn’t prioritize them, Gisele because she wasted so much time on Tom, and Tom because he’s a moron.
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The saddest part of all is that this manbaby will never realize what he threw away. I genuinely believe he’s incapable of it.
Certainly not until he’s in his 50s or 60s, if then. When the kids are grown and don’t have time for him. When his career in commentary/coaching peters out in a decade or so and he’s replaced by the next GOAT. Then maybe he’ll look around and realize what he’s sacrificed for something that’s over and gone. He’ll be able to attract users and hangers-on but at this point in his life he’s not likely to build real relationships outside the NFL. His fame and money will keep him from getting close enough to know real people. I hope he discovers real regret soon enough to build a relationship with his kids.
He’ll just have a string of increasingly younger women using him to social climb and increase their influencer cred. And trying his best to stay relevant beyond his diehard fans.
@RNOT, he’ll have another wife and child within 5 years to keep playing the family man, mark my words.
They haven’t been eliminated just yet!
The Bucs are still in the race and Tom is still pathetic.
It’s a sad, sad commentary on the NFC South that the Bucs are in first place with a losing record.
Tom is the embodiment of the SZA lyric:
“Now that I’ve ruined everything, I’m so f*cking free”.
You can say this about many many newly divorced men – they took all the free labor and child rearing chores of having children for granted while married and maybe realize they won’t have a relationship anymore with their children unless they step up and do it themselves (most obviously noted around Christmas time when things aren’t automatically cooked, stockings stuffed, tree up and decorated, and gifts under the tree unless they do it themselves.)
I think you missed my point. Which is that he blew up his entire life because he wanted to be “free” to be with true love: Football. And he doesn’t even get it or see it as a sacrifice.
I don’t think it’s sad. He seems to be okay. This is the life-path Tom chose and he appears to be content, moving forward without his wife and kids during major holidays. Tom didn’t do what everyone keeps saying he should have done to save his marriage (and the family circle created by Giselle) for a number of reasons, football probably being just one of those reasons.
Don’t feel sad for the super rich moron who threw away Giselle and puts his kids’ wellbeing as a distant second to football.
Those sport superstars often find real life too frustrating.
They have chefs and entourages and trainers and housekeepers and physios, and are worshipped by so many people… must be weird to realise human beings don’t always do everything they want.
Given how easily he seemed to share his Super Bowl rings with the nanny, I wonder if he’s actually alone.
And I’m sure his staff did all the shopping and decorating, so he’s not feeling the consequences of losing his wife who coordinated the holidays for the family.
Brady home alone xmas pr seems to interestingly coincide with cryptocurrency scandal in the news
(sigh) Tom Brady makes me sad. He refused to devote his time to his family despite being wealthy enough to do so.
A mistake he hasn’t realized how deeply it will cost him for the rest of his life.
I saw the pics of G with her parents. She spent the holidays with her elderly parents, children, friends and family. Tom could have been right there too, in the middle of happy times.
But, Brady was working in NFL football again. The man seems to have the mind set of a machine, robot. He made the decision. Damn Fool!!
We have to take his word for it that he was alone and we all know he is a man of his word.
He had it all.
Loving wife, 3 healthy kids, more money than he could spend in 5 lifetimes.
He refused to save his family life and/or protect his long term health, in order to play NFL football.
In 5 years, he will likely be with a series of gf who are with him for his money and fame.
If he is very lucky, he will have some of his health still for maybe a decade or so.
Retired NFL players do not age well, their bodies are damaged and head injuries can cost dearly.
Multiple marriages, gfs, Nurses, etc.
Brady has done this to himself.
I’m not a fan but am compassionate so hear me out:
When I went through a bad breakup, I threw myself into work. Got promoted, extra credentials and went above and beyond. It helped me, gave me something to look forward to- pride and work paid.
When home was unwanted, awful painful… work was professionally gratifying. This reward was welcomed as a side effect, rather than the cause of the relationship ending.
If you were to ask my ex, he would say I worked too much… but the work was the escape- not the cause of the end and I don’t regret it.
This may or may not be what he is doing now- just saying- there are worse ways to cope than work. No bad mouthing or bad side or bad partner accusation… just getting by and trying to move ahead.
My understanding is that he would retire at a certain point (he did for a few weeks) and when he didn’t the marriage was over. Gisele gave up a huge career for him but than he didn’t. It wasn’t a bad break up and it was his choice. The prenup made the divorce easy. Gisele was a bigger global superstar than him. The kids are the losers not him.
I can see that. And let’s face it, football has been in his life a lot longer than his ex-wife and kids have. Literally he doesn’t know what he’d do without it and clearly wife and kids don’t fill that occupational hole.
Didn’t he lose a lot of money and now has to make it back?
This guy. He pointed out how Christmas has always been in the middle of football season & this year is no different. Wow. I think Giselle was kidding herself, he was always like this. Football first, everything else–wife, kids, family, friends–second.
Either Tom or G has previously said, during NFL season routinely missed attending family events, T-Day, Xmas, family birthdays, weddings because Tom is working. For years.
Brady has been focused on football since young childhood.
Look at the Manning family, I’ve seen video of the Manning boys playing football at really young ages, like 3-5 y/o and one of them is calling a play, at 5!
But, the difference is, Tom can not accept the idea that his football days are numbered. He choose football over his wife and kids Again.
He is still playing because #1. It is all he knows. #2. Ego #3. I don’t care how much money he might have lost. The man still has more $$ than he can spend in 5 lifetimes.
I don’t think that’s unusual for pro athletes, they have to travel a lot during their season and do miss out on some big life moments. To me the difference is he reached the pinnacle and had promised that it was now time for their family, and then blew it all up out of selfishness. I bet he doesn’t have as many regrets as most would either.
It’s totally none of my business, but I am curious if Bridget and Tom’s son spends any time with Gisele now. She was all about being a super stepmom for all those years, it’s got to be a little weird now with the family split. Hopefully all the kids are doing ok.
Where does the threat to his long-term health come in? Wasn’t he told by neurologists that, with the multiple concussions he has suffered, he risks serious consequences to his health if more should occur. Has he thought about who’s going to care about him when he’s incapacitated, in a wheelchair or worse? I doubt he has. It seems the glory, adulation, money and his ego are more important to him than anything. Why would Gisele stay to watch him knowingly self-destruct? Apparently he promised he would retire at a set date and then reneged. He let his family down and will have to live that knowledge no matter what happens. Good luck with that.
The Bucs haven’t been eliminated yet – if they win next week, they’re in the playoffs. Doesn’t mean they’ll get much further with the way they’ve been playing. Still, you don’t start talking about retirement until after the season is over.
We create our realities. He made his bed. He made his choices, and he chose football.