Buccaneers fullback Tom Brady is still celebrating Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. A few weeks away from the game and parade, we now learn more about what goes on in his mind when he throws the Lombardi trophy off a boat and whether there is more to him stumbling than just sea legs. The QB covered ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ all Tuesday night on CBS.
Brady started talking about the off-season, saying his life is completely different if the roster is not his main focus. He focuses on being a dad and doing homework when there are no NFL games. On the subject of playing NFL games, Brady said that his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, had been asking him for a while when he would finally finish football, so he spent all year doing that daddy duties and homework could help.
However, the 43-year-old QB does not seem close to hanging his clamps.
Even after winning his seventh Super Bowl – most not just by a quarter, but by any team in NFL history – he still wants to play … and Bundchen wonders what else he can do on his soccer bucket list look. Brady told a story of the first moments after his Super Bowl LV victory, and joked about his wife’s immediate reaction.
“Suddenly I see my eldest son running towards me ‘Dad!’ and I gave him a big hug and saw my two little ones and suddenly I saw my wife and gave her a big hug, and just as I was doing that, she said, ‘What else do you have to prove?’ ‘Brady explains .
When asked what he did, Brady said he gave her a hug and tried to change topic quickly.
After the Super Bowl win, of course, there comes a parade and Brady, you well, looked a little different to this one. To begin with, it was the first championship parade where he threw the Lombardi trophy from one boat to another, with the risk of it falling 80 feet into the water.
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Brady is usually fairly calculated before making a pass. He reads the defense, evaluates the cover, keeps his gaze on the pace while also looking down the field, and must remember and refer to his preparation and film study to decide what to do with the ball.
Suppose the Lombardi Trophy Pass thought less.
“I can not remember it so well,” Brady said. “I did not think at that moment, there was not a thought. It was: ‘it looks really fun to do’.”
In the video of the now iconic pass, you can hear his eight-year-old daughter Vivian shout, “Daddy, no!”
“Who would have thought that an eight-year-old girl would make the most sense of anyone,” Brady said. “She is the voice of reason.”
Another iconic moment of the parade came when the Super Bowl MVP apparently struggled to walk once he was back on the field. After shrinking to the video of himself, he admitted that it was a little seaweed and a little tequila that contributed to the viral moment.
“It was definitely a moment of celebration. I’m glad I’m on land at that point,” he said.
Over the season, Brady said the 2020 season was very different from his two decades with the New England Patriots, where everyone at the beginning of the season had already asked who they were playing in the championship.
“People jumped in front of all the intense competition,” he said, adding that no one in Tampa asked for it. “It was so much fun to see a team (the Bucs) come together in the same way.”
Before the interview ended, Brady did speak like a true former Patriots player, even though he was no longer with the team.
When Corden jokingly asked if he could make it to the NFL, Brady said no, but then agreed that, with Corden’s lack of experience and athletic talent, he would fit right into a specific team in New York.
“You might be able to play for the Jets, in fact you were right about that,” Brady said.