Tom Brady’s father says he and his wife struggled with COVID-19 last year, which the star quarterback “emphasized” when he began his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tom Brady Sr., in an interview with #Greeny of ESPN Radio on Monday, said he was hospitalized for three weeks at one point last year and that he and his wife, Galynn, were ‘sick as a dog’ wash.
Brady Sr. noted that the couple, both 76 years old, did not watch the Bucs’ first two games this season due to hospitalization, saying it was the first time in their son’s football career that they had missed any games.
“We’ve never missed a game in Michigan or New England or anywhere,” he told ESPN. “For the first two games when I was in the hospital, I did not even care if they would play – much less miss the game. It was a matter of life and death, just like everyone who goes to the hospital. things. ‘
Tom sr. Said that Galynn, who is a surviving breast cancer, does not need hospitalization due to the virus. Their daughter, who is a nurse, cared for Galynn while Tom Sr. was in the hospital.
“We are just a representative of 25 million Americans who have had this stuff so far, so it’s nothing to shake a stick at,” he said.
Elder Brady also described how difficult it was for his son to balance football with his concerns about his parents, saying that the six-time Super Bowl champion would ‘be and’ my FaceTime every day on the way to and from practice. stressed ‘was worrying about them.
“Tommy fought through it, and now it’s in the rearview mirror,” he said. “We are healthy, we are happy and everything is fine.”
Brady Sr. made the remark a day after his son led the Buccaneers to an upset by the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game and the team’s first Super Bowl appearance since the 2002 season.
Brady, 43, will play for the tenth time in his Super Bowl in a Super Bowl on Feb. 7 when the Bucs face the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa.
“This year has been incredible,” Brady Sr. said. Not knowing where we are going to start the season, and being where we are at the end of the season, is just a wonderful development for me. … Getting to the 10th Super Bowl in 19 years of play is beautiful – in fact, it’s incomprehensible. It goes beyond anything we could have ever imagined. ‘