While Tom Brady began preparing for a tenth Super Bowl career, his parents had a bigger fight earlier in the season.
Tom Brady sr. Revealed Monday that he and his wife, Galynn, both contracted COVID-19 in the fall and that they were both ‘sick as a dog’.
“When the season started this year, I was in the hospital with COVID for almost three weeks, and my wife was sick with COVID at the same time,” Brady Sr. said. Said on ESPN’s “#Greeny” on Monday.
“We did not even see the first two games of the year. These were the first two games I ever missed in his career because I was sick as a dog and my wife was as sick as a dog.
‘We’ve never missed a game in Michigan or New England or anywhere. In the first two games, when I was in the hospital, I didn’t even care if they played, much less. It was a matter of life and death, just like everyone who goes to the hospital. These are serious things. ”
Brady Sr. said his son was ‘stressed’ while trying to make sure his parents recover in California as he begins the season with a new team in Tampa Bay. According to Brady Sr., Brady’s sister, a nurse, the Buccaneers fullback tried to take care of his father daily on his way to and from practice, FaceTime, to look after their mother, a cancer survivor.
“Tommy fought through it,” Brady Sr. said. ‘Well, it’s in the rearview mirror. We are healthy, we are happy and everything is fine.
‘We are just a representative of 25 million Americans who have had these things so far. It’s nothing to shake a stick at. It took the back seat after the football season. On the other hand, Tommy still had to show up, everyone had to show up. ”
Or is the Brady family planning to be in Tampa to see Tom chase a seventh Super Bowl ring?
“We certainly hope so,” said Brady Sr. said and noted that they would be ‘extra careful’ in the midst of the pandemic. “It’s just a matter of us putting together the travel plans.”