Star Tom Brady, seven-time Super Bowl winner and considered the best quarterback in the history of American football, will retire at the age of 44 after twenty-two seasons in the NFL, several media reported on Saturday January 29. Americans.
The forties had been crowned champion last year with Tampa Bay, after six coronations in twenty years with the New England Patriots, will hang up his crampons and store his helmet, say ESPN and NFL Network, while the player has not yet formalized his decision.
Interviewed by ESPN, her agent Don Yee, Brady’s agent said the star herself “will be the only person to express his plans with total accuracy. He knows the realities of the American football world and the timing that entails better than anyone, so it will be soon.”.
In the meantime, the tributes began to rain. “Thanks Tom”, accompanied by the initials “GOAT”, the initials of “The Greatest of All Times” (best of all time), thus tweeted the NFL. “Thank you for everything big brother, it was an honor”, wrote on this same social network mike evans, his teammate with the Bucs.
Record passing yards
In 2020, the quarterback left the Patriots, after twenty years of an already sensational career, to join the Buccaneers, then one of the weakest teams in the NFL, which had not qualified for the play-offs since 2007. Against all odds, he took them to the top, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs, Brady then collecting his seventh title for his tenth final.
In search of an eighth ring – a second with the Buccaneers – he saw his dream crumble last Sunday in the 30-27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, despite an incredible comeback as his team trailed 27-3 in the third quarter.
Brady was named five times MVP (best player) of the Super Bowl, three times of the regular season and has among many other records, that of the number of yards covered in the pass.