Tom Brady’s father said he and his wife fought COVID-19 last year, which “stressed” the star quarterback when he was starting his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tom Brady Sr., in an interview on Monday with #Greeny on ESPN Radio, said he was hospitalized for three weeks at one point last year and that he and his wife, Galynn, were “sick as a dog”.
Brady Sr. noted that the couple, both 76, did not watch the Bucs’ first two games this season because of their hospitalization, saying it was the first time in their son’s football career that they missed a game.
“We never lost a game in Michigan, New England or anywhere else,” he told ESPN. “In the first two games, when I was in the hospital, I didn’t even care if they were playing – let alone losing the game. It was a matter of life and death, like anyone going to the hospital. serious thing.”
Tom Sr. said Galynn, who survived breast cancer, did not need to be hospitalized because of the virus. Their daughter, who is a nurse, took care of Galynn while Tom Senior was in the hospital.
“We are just representatives of 25 million Americans who have had this kind of thing so far, so there is nothing to worry about,” he said.
The older Brady also described how difficult it was for his son to balance football with his concern for his parents, saying that the six-time Super Bowl champion would “face me every day on the way to and from training” and was “stressed” worrying about them.
“Tommy fought it, and now he’s in the rearview mirror,” he said. “We are healthy, happy and everything is fine.”
Brady Sr. made the comments the day after his son led the Buccaneers to a defeat by the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game and the team’s first Super Bowl appearance since the 2002 season.
Brady, 43, will play in the Super Bowl for the tenth time in his career on February 7, when the Bucs face Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa.
“This year has been unbelievable,” said Brady Sr .. “Not knowing where we are going to start the season, and being where we are going to end the season is just an impressive development as far as I’m concerned. … Reaching the 10th Super Bowl in 19 years of playing is beautiful – it is incomprehensible, in fact. It is beyond anything we can imagine. “