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Goodbye forever, announces Brady

Ap y Afp

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday February 2, 2023, p. a10

Tampa. This time it is final. Tom Brady, the man who broke many records in the NFL, is leaving professional football. A year ago he announced in a long message on social networks that he was leaving him, but a few weeks later he repented and returned to play what was his last season with the Buccaneers. Therefore, he woke up yesterday morning and thought that he had to do it immediately and concisely.

With a field in the background and buildings in the distance, at 45 years old, Brady made an effort not to break down and was direct with his message: I retire. Forever.

He did it this way because a year ago he was shocked by the announcement that he was leaving the NFL. Six weeks later he would shake the news hornet’s nest again, as he returned to play with the argument that he had thought better of it and that his place was still on the court and with a ball about to be sent. That is why yesterday he was concise, he said that the time he could use to say goodbye had exhausted him in February 2022.

“I am not going to extend. In life one must have only one long essay to announce retirement and I already used mine last year.

I really appreciate so much, each one of you for supporting me. To my family, my friends, my teammates, my competitors. This could go on endlessly, there are too many people. Thank you all for allowing me to realize my total dream. I would not change anything. I love you allhe expressed with a broken voice in a video.

All sports discuss in each era who is the best. Each generation raises its idols that it considers incomparable, but with Brady the opinion is unanimous: he is the best of all time and the numbers back him up.

In 23 seasons in the NFL, 20 with New England and three with Tampa Bay, Brady established himself as the best quarterback in league history. He won seven championship rings, six with the Patriots and one in his debut season with the Buccaneers; he was the most valuable player of the Super Bowl five times and three times of the season.

Reviewing Brady’s numbers is like rummaging through Chinese boxes that inside each one awaits another new surprise and so on. For example, no one has been in the Super Bowl more times than Brady, in his career he played in the league final 10 times. Talking about longevity also involves the record for the oldest player to win a Vince Lombardi trophy, he achieved it in 2021 with Tampa Bay at age 43. Also, he is the only one who has played in an NFL final in three different decades.

Brady still had time to make marks in his final season. A few months ago, he became the first to reach 100,000 passing yards, as well as being the leader in the highest number of completions (7,753) and touchdowns (649).

Memorable moments

The last season was not the best. However, it had memorable moments. He set a pair of regular season records completing 490 passes on 733 attempts and finished third in the NFL with 4,694 passing yards. Besides that he took the Bucs to their second straight NFC South title despite their losing record.

Thank you all for allowing me to realize my total dreamexpressed the 45-year-old passer in his farewell video.Ap’s photo

The legendary marshal was born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo (California). The rise of his career to the Olympus of American sports was impossible to predict when he landed in the NFL in 2000 as a total unknown.

Unlike those who would later be their great rivals, such as the Peyton brothers and Eli Manning, no one expected in the Draft Brady and was underappreciated to the point that six quarterbacks were taken before him.

He was selected in the distant 199th place by the New England Patriots of coach Bill Belichick, also a newcomer to the franchise.

At the time, the gangly young man’s biggest expectation was to be the backup to Drew Bledsoe, one of the first NFL stars to receive a contract worth more than $100 million.

But Belichick knew how to understand Brady’s development and decipher it to discover that he had a special player on his hands, with a work ethic and competitive spirit that would become his hallmarks.

The big break came in September 2001, when an injury to Bledsoe allowed him to start and surprisingly lead the Patriots to victory in the Super Bowl.

That victory marked the start of a two-decade reign in which Brady and the Patriots became the dominant force in the NFL, with eight more trips to the Super Bowl, five of them winning.

After 20 seasons with the Massachusetts franchise, he surprised by leaving to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team with a long history of failure and just one league championship.

Brady, as he demonstrated in that first season, is amassed with another clay. He led that Florida team to the conquest of the Super Bowl in 2021.

Commentator, your future

Tom’s legacy is unmatched in sports history. All the Super Bowl titles, the record stats speak for themselves, but the impact he had on so many people over the years is why we appreciate him the most.highlighted the general manager of the Bucs, Jason Lichet. “His imprint of him on this team helped us reach the top. We will certainly miss him as our quarterbackbut we will also miss him as a leader and friend.”

The splendor of the legendary marshal is so powerful that not even scandal could overshadow it. In 2015, when he was with the Patriots, he was involved in the deflated football case known as the Deflategate, a devious manipulation of the balls that is suspected of allowing New England to win over Indianapolis on January 18 of that year and which allowed them to advance and win the Super Bowl. Brady was banned by the NFL for four games in the 2016 season.

Brady’s future is uncertain, although it is suspected that he will continue to be associated with American football. It was announced last year that when he retired from the sport he would join Fox Sports as an analyst on a $375 million, 10-year contract.

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