Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is still celebrating Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. A few weeks after the game and the parade, we are now finding out more about what was going on in his mind when he threw the Lombardi Trophy from a boat and whether there were more stumbles in it than just legs from the sea. QB went to the CBS program “The Late Late Show with James Corden” to discuss the matter throughout Tuesday night.
Brady started by talking about the off-season, saying that his life is totally different when the football field is not his number one focus. He returns to concentrating on being a father and doing housework when there are no NFL games to play. On the subject of NFL games, Brady said that his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, had been asking for some time when he would finally finish football so he could help with father chores and household chores throughout the year.
The 43-year-old QB doesn’t seem close to hanging up his boots, however.
Even after winning his seventh Super Bowl – the maximum not just for a quarterback, but for any team in NFL history – he still wants to play … and Bundchen is wondering what else he could check on his wish list. football. Brady told the story of the first moments after his victory in the Super bowl LV, joking about his wife’s immediate reaction.
“Suddenly, I see my eldest son running up to me, ‘Dad!’ and I gave him a big hug and I saw my two little kids and suddenly I saw my wife and I gave him a big hug and, the moment I did, she said, ‘What else do you have to prove?’ Brady explained.
When asked what he did, Brady said he gave her a hug and tried to change the subject quickly.
After the Super Bowl victory, of course, there is a parade and Brady, uh well, looked a little different in this one. To begin with, it was the first parade of the championship where he threw the Lombardi Trophy from one boat to another, with the risk of falling 24 meters into the water.
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Brady is usually quite calculating before making a pass. He reads the defense, assesses the coverage, keeps his eyes on the quick pass while also looking at the field, and has to remember and consult his preparation and study of the film to decide what to do with the ball.
Let’s say that less attention was paid to the passage to the Lombardi Trophy.
“I don’t remember it that well,” said Brady. “I wasn’t thinking at that time, there was no thought. It was, ‘this looks like a lot of fun to do’.”
In the video of that now iconic, pass, you can hear his eight-year-old daughter Vivian shouting, “Daddy, no!”
“Who would have guessed that an eight-year-old girl would have more common sense than anyone,” said Brady. “She is the voice of reason.”
Another iconic moment of the parade came when the Super Bowl MVP seemed to be struggling to walk as soon as he returned to earth. After cringing at the video of himself, he admitted that it was a little bit of sea legs and a little bit of tequila that contributed to the viral moment.
“This was definitely a moment of celebration. I am happy to be on the ground at that moment,” he said.
Reflecting on the season, Brady said the 2020 season was very different from his two decades with the New England Patriots, where at the beginning of the season everyone was already asking who they were playing in the championship.
“People jumped ahead of all the intense competition,” he said, adding that in Tampa no one was asking that. “It was really fun to see a team (the Bucs) coming together the way it did.”
Before the end of the interview, Brady spoke like a real ex-Patriots player, despite not being with the team anymore.
When Corden jokingly asked if he could do this in the NFL, Brady said no, but then agreed that, with Corden’s lack of experience and athletic talent, he would fit perfectly into a private New York team.
“You may be able to play for the Jets, in fact you are right about that,” said Brady.