Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is still celebrating Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, and we’re now finding out more about what it was like to see his family after the big game. Trophy from a boat and whether there are more obstacles to it than sea bones. Brady went with James Corden on The Late Late Show to discuss it all.
Brady started talking about the off-season, saying it’s a whole different life and that he’s back to more dad and homework. He joked that he had learned again where the dishwasher was.
His wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, had been asking him for a while when he would finally finish football so he could help with the dad duties and homework all year, but the 43-year-old does not look close. hanging up his clamps.
Even after winning his seventh Super Bowl, most not just by a quarterback, but by any team in NFL history, he still wants to play, and Bundchen still wonders what else he has on his list of soccer kids can 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?’ ‘
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.
Brady is usually fairly calculated before making a pass. He reads the defense, evaluates the cover, keeps his eye on the passing rush while also looking at the field and has to remember and refer to his preparation and film study to decide what to do with the ball, but there is less thought to this.
“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 it, now iconic, 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 for the parade was when the Super Bowl MVP struggled to walk. After shrinking to the video of himself, he said it’s a little seaweed and a little tequila that contribute. “It was definitely a moment of celebration. I’m glad I’m on land at that point,” he said.
Over the season, he said it 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 come together in the same way.”
Corden jokingly asked if he could make it to the NFL. Brady said no, but did say there is one team that would suit someone with Corden’s lack of experience right. “You might be able to play for the Jets, in fact you were right about that,” Brady said. He may not be in the AFC East, but the rivalry is still clearly deep.