{"id":562889,"date":"2026-03-26T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562889\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:20:12","slug":"tom-brady-says-hes-weighed-coming-out-of-retirement-but-the-nfl-doesnt-like-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562889\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady says he&#8217;s weighed coming out of retirement, but the NFL doesn&#8217;t like the idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady revealed in an interview released on Thursday that he considered coming out of retirement, but the National Football League wasn\u2019t particularly receptive to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion and minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, was asked in a recent interview with CNBC if he\u2019s looked into the rules regarding a minority owner returning to NFL play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually have inquired, and they (the NFL) don\u2019t like that idea very much, so I\u2019m going to leave it at that,\u201d Brady said. \u201cWe explored a lot of different things, and I\u2019m very happily retired. Let me say that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t have been Brady\u2019s first time coming out of retirement. The three-time league MVP briefly retired during the 2022 offseason after two seasons with the Buccaneers. He had a change of heart 40 days later and went on to play for one more year before retiring \u201cfor good\u201d in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Brady recently turned heads in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tom-brady-flag-football-olympics-fe952ea5176b5f13a5ccba91ccc0b1cd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fanatics Flag Football Classic<\/a>, where he played alongside Jalen Hurts, Devonta Smith, Stefon Diggs and Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty. He also reunited on the field with his teammate of 11 seasons and four-time time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady revealed in an interview released on Thursday that he considered coming out of retirement, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-562889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}