Is Tom Brady Returning To The Patriots? Team Confirms We’ll See The GOAT Again
12.05.2023 - 16:07
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He famously (or rather infamously, if you’re his ex-wife Gisele Bundchen) retired from the NFL only to unretire 40 days later. But news Tom Brady is returning to the Patriots, the team where he spent most of his career, sent the NFL community into a frenzy on May 11, 2023.
Picked up by New England in the 2000 NFL Draft in 199th overall in round six, Brady was selected with an underwhelming scout report. But just two years into his starting career at the Pats, he’d be the league’s top passing touchdown leader and would lead his team to their first Super Bowl victory—defeating the St. Louis Rams by three points. Brady would take his team to nine Super Bowls and they’d win six of them.
After 20 years with the Patriots, Brady announced in March 2020 that he had signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and took them to his seventh Super Bowl win in 2021 against the Kansas City Chiefs. A year later, in February 2022, Brady announced his retirement from the game but 40 days later, he revealed he would return to the Buccs for 2022. After a lackluster season, Brady announced he was retiring “for good”. But did he, once again, speak too soon?
Is Tom Brady returning to the Patriots?
Calm down, sports fans, Tom Brady isn’t returning to the Patriots to play, and yes, he’s still retired. At his ‘unofficial’ retirement party in South Florida, hosted by Autograph, in March 2023, Brady said: “There is nothing I love more than football, but I have young children and they watched enough of their dad’s games and it’s time for me to watch their games.”
Tom Brady at Super Bowl 51 in 2017. Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
But team owner Robert Kraft confirmed the NFL GOAT will be honored at New England’s season opener against the Miami