Tom Brady Retiring From Football After Legendary Career

Tom Brady is retiring from the NFL after an unprecedented career in which he won seven Super Bowls and set numerous passing records, his company’s Twitter account said Saturday. ESPN first reported Brady’s retirement on Saturday, citing unidentified sources.

Tom Brady is retiring from football after 22 extraordinary seasons, multiple sources tell @JeffDarlington and me.

More coming on https://t.co/rDZaVFhcDQ. pic.twitter.com/6CHWmMlyXg

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 29, 2022

Brady’s TB12sports Twitter account wrote; “7 Super Bowl Rings. 5 Super Bowl MVPs. 3 League MVP Awards. 22 Incredible Seasons. Thank you for it all, @TomBrady”

The 44-year-old Brady goes out after leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title last season and NFC South championship this season. And, as stat freaks point out, Tom Brady has won 12.7% of all Super Bowls in history.

Tom Brady has won 12.7% of all Super Bowls in history. pic.twitter.com/EaXP9R4neG

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 29, 2022

Brady led the NFL in yards passing (5,316), touchdowns (43), completions (485) and attempts (719), but the Buccaneers lost at home to the Los Angeles Rams last Sunday in the divisional round. As the AP notes, Brady had cited a desire to spend more time with his wife and children despite still playing at the top of his game.

Brady won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots in 20 seasons playing for coach Bill Belichick. He joined the Buccaneers in 2020 and led them to the second Super Bowl title in franchise history.

Brady leaves the games as the career leader in yards passing (84,520) and TDs (624). He’s the only player to win more than five Super Bowls and was MVP of the game five times.

Widely considered the greatest quarterback to play the game, Brady won three NFL MVP awards, was a first-team All-Pro three times and was selected to the Pro Bowl 15 times. He was 243-73 in his career in the regular season and 35-12 in the playoffs.

In recent years, Tom Brady emerged as one of the more prominent crypto-evangelists, taking an equity stake in cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. He then fully embraced the cryptocurrency bandwagon, from his “laser eyes” tweet to his recent commercial for FTX; in September 2021 he even discussed about getting paid in tokens for carving up NFL defenses. Appearing on SiriusXM’s “Let’s Go” podcast with Jim Gray, Brady acknowledged that other NFL players have requested to be paid a portion of their salaries in crypto, and it’s a trend he would love to join:

“I’d love to request that to get paid in some crypto and, you know, to get paid in some Bitcoin or Ethereum or Solana tokens,” Brady said. “I think it’s an amazing thing that’s happening in the world with the way the world is becoming more digital. And these digital currencies, along with a lot of, if you look how the way the world is going, with all these different digital mediums and how they’re impacting currencies.”

It’s unclear if Brady plans on focusing more on his crypto cheerleading now that he will have much more free time or if, as some have speculated, he will turn toward politics. Or he may just pull a Michael Jordan…

Tom Brady in three years pic.twitter.com/hPcVrUs0Ok

— Chase Hughes (@ChaseHughesNBCS) January 29, 2022