Co-parenting, yachts, deals, talking football, parties galore: Tom Brady may have retired from the NFL but he’s as busy as ever and, true to form, trying to do the best he can no matter the situation.
This has been an extremely different kind of summer for Tom Brady.
For the first time since he embarked on his 23-season NFL career in 2000, Brady doesn’t have to be game-ready come September.
Not that he isn’t still in impressive shape, maintaining his 46-year-old temple still a top priority for the Aug. 3 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day boy and father of son Jack, 15, with former girlfriend Bridget Moynahan and Benjamin, 13, and daughter Vivian, 10, with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. But his schedule these days—almost 10 months since his divorce was finalized and only six since retiring from football for real—is more about squeezing in tee times and parties in the Hamptons while taking meetings and hanging out with his kids.
“I have not been bored, I would say that,” Brady told E! News from his Florida home in June, noting he’d just come back from attending a wedding in Europe. “There’s been a lot going on.”
In fact, he was admittedly “maybe a little bit busier than I would like.”
While the TB12 founder always had various irons in the fire, Brady’s so-called retirement looks to somehow be even more packed: He’s already purchased a piece of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces as well as invested in the E1 World Championship, an electric boat-racing circuit, and he wants a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders. The Bay Area native called the former Oakland team an “iconic NFL franchise,” telling the Associated Press it would be “a dream come true” to be involved and something he’d be “interested in doing for the rest of my life.”
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He also told E! at the Jan. 31 premiere of 80 for Brady, co-starring the 15-time Pro Bowl pick as himself, that he was “definitely” open to more acting and producing. And, while he was still playing, he signed a reported 10-year, $375 million deal to join Fox’s NFL broadcasting team. He’s planning to head into the booth in 2024 after he spends this upcoming season away from the game.
One of the few things not on the horizon for the empire-builder is a reality show—”I lived in reality TV for 23 years,” he told E! in June—and suiting up once again for an NFL team. Though try telling that to the players who aren’t entirely buying this whole retired-for-good business.
“I’m sure we’re still reaching out to him trying to see if he’s trying to come back to the team,” Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Antoine Winfield Jr., who won a Super Bowl with Brady in 2021, said on the July 12 episode of The Richard Sherman Podcast. “Hey, it could happen. Anything’s possible.”
But probably not this.
