{"id":801503,"date":"2026-08-03T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:05:09","slug":"tom-brady-turns-49-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801503\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady turns 49 today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, the arrival of August 3 was a reminder that Tom Brady was stretching the quarterback rubber band farther than anyone has.<\/p>\n

Four years removed from what was his final NFL season, the boyhood 49ers fan<\/a> (that changed<\/a> after they picked Giovanni Carmazzi instead) is now 49.<\/p>\n

Brady still has the arm, as anyone who watched the flag-football thing in March saw. It was enough to get him to drop a hint or two about returning to play, even if he\u2019d have to sell the piece of the Raiders he purchased at a well-below-market rate.<\/p>\n

Obviously, Brady isn\u2019t coming back to play. He\u2019s now flirting with a potential pro-wrestling run<\/a>, regardless of whether it\u2019s a mid-life crisis run amok or a strategic effort to fashion a base for a turn to presidential politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brady has spread himself very thin in his post-football life, even as he has lamented in a newsletter the importance of \u201cbalance<\/a>.\u201d The sooner he finds one thing on which he can focus his attention \u2014 broadcasting or ownership \u2014 the better off he\u2019ll be.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s impossible to be the best he can be at both by actively doing both. He nevertheless seems to be intent on continuing to do both, and plenty more, indefinitely.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s his prerogative. And it\u2019s our prerogative to say he would seem to be less tormented if he found the one thing that gives him maximum satisfaction.<\/p>\n

The simple answer could be that it was playing football, and that nothing else comes close to filling that void. And so it could be that Brady isn\u2019t doing a bunch of different things for the sake of doing a bunch of different things. He could be simply turning over rocks in an effort to find something that resonates with him the way that playing did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long ago, the arrival of August 3 was a reminder that Tom Brady was stretching the quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-801503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}