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The goat, Tom Brady, has officially hung up his cleats and called it a career.
After 22 glorious seasons in the NFL, Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has announced his NFL career is over. Brady hasn’t made the announcement himself yet. Still, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that “multiple sources” told him and Jeff Darlington that Brady would indeed step away from the National Football League.
Tom Brady is retiring from football after 22 extraordinary seasons, multiple sources tell @JeffDarlington and me.
More coming on https://t.co/rDZaVFhcDQ. pic.twitter.com/6CHWmMlyXg
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 29, 2022
The 44-year-old 7-time Super Bowl champion is leaving the game as the league leader in wins, passing attempts and completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns in the quarterback position, firmly solidifying his GOAT status. Brady built his legendary status as a member of the New England Patriots, where he played from 2001 to 2019, winning an astonishing 6 Super Bowls with the franchise.
Brady would defy the odds and defeat father time, proving he wasn’t a “system quarterback” when he won his 7th and final Super Bowl championship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bucs looked like they were heading right back to the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, finishing with a 13-4 record and running away with the NFC South division. In the playoffs, they would ultimately fall short of that goal losing to the Los Angeles Rams. The Bucs also were banged up, losing star wide receiver Chris Godwin to a season-ending injury and Antonio Brown disgracefully quitting on them and throwing Tom Brady and his head coach under a bus.
Following the loss, Brady didn’t say he was retiring, but his most recent Instagram post gave indications he was considering retirement.
Tom Brady threw for 84,520 yards and 624 TDs over his 22 season career.
Love him or hate him. You have to salute him. Those are some phenomenal numbers that will surely make him a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Enjoy retirement. You earned it.
You can peep reactions to the big news in the gallery below.
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1. Who knew that would be his last.
The Last Touchdown pass of Tom Brady’s career pic.twitter.com/PAjMWHr9LS
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) January 29, 2022
2. Salute.
Tom Brady. Greatest Ever.
— Barstool Sportsbook (@BSSportsbook) January 29, 2022
3. The greatest.
Salute to Tom Brady
pic.twitter.com/VAZL74maS8
— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) January 29, 2022
4.
What a career for Tom Brady
pic.twitter.com/ym8UZEySRB
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 29, 2022
5. Sheesh
Tom Brady’s 22-year career:
* 7X Super Bowl champion
* 5X Super Bowl MVP
* 3X NFL MVP
* 15X Pro Bowl
* 6X All Pro
* NFL’s all time passing TD leader (624)
* NFL’s all passing yard leader (85,520)
* Most career wins: 243
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) January 29, 2022
6.
Tom Brady should be eligible to go into the Hall of Fame THIS YEAR. That’s how great he was. No doubt the greatest of all time.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 29, 2022
7.
Football without Tom Brady for the rest of my life pic.twitter.com/IzN5LnQX7N
— Overtime (@overtime) January 29, 2022
8.
So long Tom Brady pic.twitter.com/eJoC8MaiAv
— Pardon My Take (@PardonMyTake) January 29, 2022
9.
We are all so incredibly lucky to have watched Tom Brady play football.
— Taylor Rooks (@TaylorRooks) January 29, 2022
10.
Tom Brady dominated football for this long.
pic.twitter.com/kpeQzQuGdp
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) January 29, 2022
11.
Tom Brady was a starter for 20 seasons in the NFL.
He reached the Super Bowl in 10(!!!) of those seasons.
Just think about that.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) January 29, 2022
12.
When Tom Brady began speaking on his podcast about putting family first, you knew it was time. No retirement tour. Just walking away.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 29, 2022
13.
Skip Bayless after he finds out Tom Brady retired from the NFL pic.twitter.com/gjKJGTZp19
— AuxGod (@AuxGod_) January 29, 2022
14.
When I signed w/ the Patriots & met Tom Brady for the first time at practice I said “Its a true honor to meet you Tom.”
He took a drink, looked at me & gave a little grin in only a way he could & said…
“This aint no f%&$n meet & greet. beat it.”
Wow.. we’ll miss you Legend.
— Andrew Hawkins (@Hawk) January 29, 2022
15.
We’ll always have Tom Brady throwing passes to Daniel Ricciardo across the Monaco harbour
pic.twitter.com/tPLWZMdXcf
— ESPN F1 (@ESPNF1) January 29, 2022