Now it's official: Brady hanging up the cleats

By adamg on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 9:53am

Straight from the Goat's mouth, with much love for the Bucs and their fans.

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Not a single breath of the

By oddjob60 on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:11am.

Not a single breath of the words Patriots or Belichick. Cold.

Or maybe not

By flutieflake on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:26am.

Allegedly Kraft has allegedly leaked that Brady will allegedly come back to the Patriots for his alleged actual final alleged retirement. So maybe he is giving this moment to the Bucs.
Or maybe rumors are fake and he is cold as ice.

Here's what he should do:

By uhub-fan on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:27pm.

Wait until the 2022 season, come back to Foxboro, sign a one-day contract, drop kick a point-after, and "officially" retire.

Only a true legend ends on a

By flutieflake on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 2:07pm.

Only a true legend ends on a dropkick.

Abso-Flutie!!!

By MassMouse on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 6:14pm.

n/t

He's actually moving in

By anon on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 2:09pm.

with Alex Guerrero. The couple is asking for privacy.

Yeah...

By statler on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:58am.

I don't think he is going to do the one-day contract thing. :(

no need

By hux on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:02am.

This was pretty short nor did he thank anyone at all, including his family. This isn't his hall of fame speech, it's a brief retirement announcement. Some fans need to get over themselves.

Did you see there was a whole

By oddjob60 on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:09am.

Did you see there was a whole set of tweets? (They're all included here.) He thanked everyone, including Alex Guerrero, but not the Pats.

Brief?

By brianjdamico on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:12am.

I don't really care either way, never been too interested in football myself, but statistics always interest me.

His announcement was posted as 8 panels of text, about 3 full pages related to his last two years of playing in Tampa... That's almost 40% of his message. Feels a bit odd to dedicate 40% to less than 10% of his career, and 0% of his message about 91% of his career...

What more do we want?

By tblade on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:31am.

Brady won 5 Super Bowls and gave us 20 years. Who cares what he said leaving the Bucs.

Let’s not be needy.

Six

By StillFromDorchester on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:38am.

And one with the bucs... but who is counting. Lol

Indeed

By tblade on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:44am.

I meant 5 Super Bowls in New England. My overall point is that TB could say “Rot in Hell, New England. Dunkin’ sucks. You all talk like rejected Departed extras. Go choke on a lobster” for all I care. The fan base got more than it could realistically hope for, yet some still need more.

Still wrong

By robo on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:56am.

You’re still wrong. He won a total of 7 SBs and 6 with the Pats.

Ok.

By tblade on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:09pm.

Maybe sit this one out?

By anon on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:30pm.

Instead of doubling down.

He won a bunch

By StillFromDorchester on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:53pm.

Let's leave it at that. :)

Whom?

By JayF on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:19am.

So I'm guessing he's not thinking about running for office here in the Bay State?

Given that he sold his pied-a-terre in Brookline ...

By adamg on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:43am.

I'm guessing not.

Tampa

By robo on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 1:25pm.

When he initially moved down to Tampa he said he’ll never live somewhere cold again. Can’t blame him.

My wife and I are in the same boat. However, we both love to ski so we have numerous Park City trips already planned to scratch that itch.

This just in:

By Rob on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:23am.

This just in:

Traffic Alert!
All snow removal operations - roads, sidewalks, crosswalks, bus stops, school drop off zones, and bike lanes - in Boston will be suspended effective 11 AM today. All equipment and personnel will be prioritized, mandatory overtime, to clear Boylston Street for the Tom Brady rolling rally on Thursday! Tune up the duck boats!
This parade CAN NOT wait until a more convenient day when the kids aren't supposed to be in school - Tom has a plane to catch to a tropical climate on Friday!!

Bradys come and go.

By Lee on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:23am.

But space savers are forever.

Now that he is retired

By SamWack on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 9:54pm.

Tom Brady could be used as a space saver.

22 years...

By StillFromDorchester on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:27am.

That is amazing even without all his success.
What is the average NFL career?

Indeed

By BobGoblin on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:02am.

Hope he has a great retirement and that his brain is okay.

Not For Long

By anon on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:03am.

Something like 4 years, I

By Rob on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:27am.

Something like 4 years, I think I read once.

Okay, did a little more

By Rob on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 9:27pm.

Okay, did a little more looking...
Average is apparently less than 4 years - maybe 3.3 or less. Not surprising that average differs depending on position played - QB and kickers are a lot more protected.
A few articles also point out that the figure is for all players - landmarks in achievement tend to mean longer careers. According to one...

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Players who make a team’s opening day roster in his rookie season average a six-year career.
A player on a team’s roster for at least three games in at least three seasons plays for an average of 7.1 years.
First-round draft picks have average careers of 9.3 years.
The average career length skyrockets to 11.7 years for a player who is chosen for or plays in a Pro Bowl at least once in his career.

Teams might have 90 players at start of training camp, trimmed to 53-man roster by opening day. Some of those cut stay on practice squads, get picked up as injury replacements....

Rookie Year

By John Costello on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:43am.

Funny thing is, even though I watched nearly every one of his Michigan games, no one knew who he was his rookie year. (Full disclosure - My friends and I sent emails to each other on how psyched we were when they drafted him. No lie. This texting thing had not caught on yet).

He would hang out in Adams Corner and eat at Blasi's and have some beers. He was living over in Marina Bay. After the first Super Bowl win he had to move because women were randomly yelling up to the building in which he lived stating their sexual objectives with him.

Based on what he has turned into physically and his nutritional m.o., I think his intestines would explode today if Blasi's was still around and he scarfed one of their Chicken Parms. The three beers he had at the Tampa parade last year were testimony to that.

Thanks for the memories. I still can't believe the third world inter island ferry known as The New England Patriots turned into yacht the Sultan of Brunei would be proud of.

Half the Patriots games in the 80s weren’t televised…

By tblade on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:38am.

…because of the stupid NFL rule that stations couldn’t broadcast the market’s home team if games weren’t sold out. Hell of a way to build a fan base.

Smuggling A Radio Into Christmas Carol Singing As A Kid

By John Costello on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:04pm.

Even when they were bad, really bad, you wanted to know the score.

I still miss Jim Nance

By anon on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 2:30pm.

nevermind John Hannah, Stanley Morgan, Russ Francis, Andre Tippet, Raymond Clayborn ...

Bobby Orr never thought he was the center of the universe, and he had every bit as much influence on the game of hockey as Brady did with football. Tommy Boy can stay in Florida.

https://twitter.com/conoryunits/status/1488556864698826755

Buh bye

By MassMouse on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 6:11pm.

Don’t let the door hit ya….

Now, BASEBALL!!!!

Now it's official: Brady hanging up the cleats

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