Tom Brady Announces His Retirement, for Good This Time

Brady also runs several businesses. He founded the health and wellness company TB12 Sports with his longtime trainer Alex Guerrero. He also has Religion of Sports, which is a media company, and the Brady Brand clothing line.

Brady, 45, exits his football career as the most accomplished player in the sport. He won seven Super Bowls and was named the most valuable player of five of those games, both N.F.L. records. He sits atop the list for almost every major passing statistical category, including career completions (7,753), passing yards (89,214) and passing touchdowns (649), but distinguished himself most in the postseason, where he set records for game-winning drives (14) and fourth-quarter comebacks (9).

The oldest active player in the N.F.L. this season, Brady’s late-game heroics helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reach the playoffs again despite their 8-9 record. But the team lost in the wild-card round of the playoffs to the Dallas Cowboys by a 31-14 margin, which could not be surmounted even by Brady, whose last N.F.L. pass was an incompletion aimed at Julio Jones.

This season was his worst as a professional but still elite by comparison. Brady threw for 4,694 passing yards, the third most in the league, while completing 66.8 percent of his passes.

He retired after his third season with the Buccaneers, a campaign that at one point looked as if it wouldn’t happen: Brady first announced his retirement on Feb. 1, 2022, but reversed that decision after less than six weeks.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/sports/football/tom-brady-retires.html