Tom Brady is a 45-year-old man who needs to retire from one of the most violent sports out there. I’m all for athletes deciding to use willpower and science to extend their careers, but when your sport is all about CTE and multiple concussions every year, maybe retire early? Football has already cost Tom his wife, and it will likely cost him his long-term health. Now, it’s not all brain damage and brutality though – Tom has made hundreds of millions of dollars as a player, not just from his salary and bonuses, but his lucrative sponsorships and side-hustles. None of that makes him heroic or a soldier serving his country. But Tom sees a parallel there, and he compared his NFL career to that of a military deployment. My god.

Tom Brady says he’s finding it nearly impossible to focus on his personal life half of the year … explaining he feels like NFL seasons are similar to “going away on deployment for the military.” The Tampa Bay Buccaneers star shed light on his struggle with work-life balance while talking with Kevin Durant on this week’s episode of the quarterback’s “Let’s Go” podcast.

The 45-year-old admitted even though he tries to place an emphasis on certain aspects of his off-field life during the football season … he always finds himself buried in his job instead.

“I almost look at like a football season like you’re going away on deployment for the military,” Brady said. “And it’s like, ‘Man, here I go again.'”

“The reality is,” he continued, “is you can really only be authentic to yourself. Right? Whatever you may say — ‘Ah, man, I want to, you know, make sure I spend a little more time doing this during the season,’ the reality is, is when it comes down to it, your competitiveness takes over and as much as you want to have this playful balance with the work balance — you’re going to end up doing exactly what you’ve always done, which is why you are who you are.”

The words appear to shed further light on the marital issues Brady is having with Gisele Bünchden. She’s wanted him to step away from football for years and be more of a hands-on family man. But he’s making it clear, he’s having a very hard time doing that. In fact, he said he straight up gets to the point where all he cares about in the fall and winter months is wins and losses.

“You’re going to go, ‘How the f*** do I get it done?'” he said. “‘What do I got to do for my teammates to get it done?'”

[From TMZ]

At this point, the question isn’t “why did Gisele leave Tom” it’s “what took Gisele so long to leave Tom?” He’s like “babe, I’m going off to my military deployment, see you in six months!” Gisele had every reason to be sick of his sh-t. And what a f–king insult to the military people who are genuinely DEPLOYED. Who don’t get to see their families in person for months, sometimes years at a time. There’s no comparison – Tom is making the choice to blank on his family for six months every year because of “football.”

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