Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is still celebrating Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl home victory over the Kansas City Chiefs and now we are finding out more about what it was like to see his family after the big game, what was going on in his mind when he discarded the Lombardi Trophy out of a boat and if there was anything more stumbling over it than legs of the sea. Brady went to The Late Late Show with James Corden to discuss everything.
Brady started by talking about the off-season, saying that it is a totally different life and that he is back with more tasks from his father and the house. He joked that he is relearning where the dishwasher is.
His wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, has been asking for some time when he would finally finish football so he could help with dad chores and household chores throughout the year, but the 43-year-old man doesn’t seem close to hanging his boots. .
Even after winning his seventh Super Bowl, the maximum not only for a quarterback, but for any team in NFL history, he still wants to play and Bundchen is still wondering what else he could check on his football wish list.
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?’ “
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.
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, but less thought was devoted to the pass .
“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 this, now iconic, pass, you can hear your daughter Vivian, eight years old, screaming: “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 was when the Super Bowl MVP seemed to be struggling to walk. After cringing at the video of himself, he said it was a little sea legs and a little tequila that contributed. “This was definitely a moment of celebration. I am happy to be on the ground at that moment,” he said.
Reflecting on the season, he said it was very different from his two decades at the New England Patriots, where at the beginning of the season everyone asked 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 come together in this way.”
Jokingly, Corden asked if he could do that in the NFL. Brady said no, but said there was a team that someone with Corden’s lack of experience would fit in perfectly. “You may be able to play for the Jets, in fact you are right about that,” said Brady. He may be out of AFC East, but that rivalry is still deep.