OT - Tom Brady Football

[Tyruscobb]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Seems very selfish and egotistical of him.

I don’t think it’s ego or selfishness. He doesn’t need the fame or fortune, so it’s probably not those. What then is it?

Football is in his DNA. It is his identity. Brady has played the game for over 40 years. It’s hard to walk away from who you are, especially when you are still playing at a high level. You should know this, Peter.

How many old multi-millionaire lawyers do you see still practicing? They obviously don’t need the money or notoriety. The law flows through their veins. It’s giving something up which you’ve done your entire life that is hard.

[Snapolit1]

Needing to do something that’s in your dna or running through your veins is very close to ego. I’ve known a lot of 80 year old law partners who can’t enjoy a vacation with their families because they have a view that everything will come crashing down if they are not pulling all the strings all the time. That is ego, and it makes for a surprisingly number of lawyers at that age who don’t talk to their kids, are hated by their grandchildren, and can’t remember the last time they sat on a beach and had a drink. Believe me. Ive know a lot of them. A real danger of the profession.

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

I don’t think it’s ego or selfishness. He doesn’t need


the fame or fortune, so it’s probably not those. What then is it?

Football is in his DNA. It is his identity. Brady has played the game for over 40 years. It’s hard to walk away from who you are, especially when you are still playing at a high level. You should know this, Peter.

How many old multi-millionaire lawyers do you see still practicing? They obviously don’t need the money or notoriety. The law flows through their veins. It’s giving something up which you’ve done your entire life that is hard.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

I don’t think it’s ego or selfishness. He doesn’t need the fame or fortune, so it’s probably not those. What then is it?

Football is in his DNA. It is his identity. Brady has played the game for over 40 years. It’s hard to walk away from who you are, especially when you are still playing at a high level. You should know this, Peter.

How many old multi-millionaire lawyers do you see still practicing? They obviously don’t need the money or notoriety. The law flows through their veins. It’s giving something up which you’ve done your entire life that is hard.

Brent, not saying I don't understand it, but when his wife has been pleading with him for years to stop risking his health, and it's obviously very hard on her, vis a vis her it does become selfish IMO. He clearly is not putting his family/marriage first. Honestly, and this is just pure speculation, I think given an ultimatum by her he would choose football. Hope I am wrong.

[Jewish-collector]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

How many old multi-millionaire lawyers do you see still practicing? They obviously don’t need the money or notoriety. The law flows through their veins. It’s giving something up which you’ve done your entire life that is hard.

I know a lot of wealthy a-hole lawyers who don't get along with any of their family members.

[chriskim]

Lelands has been trying so hard to hype that ball as the most discussed football ever but it seems like no one really care.

[Peter_Spaeth]

He just threw a TD.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Brady looks fine to me..funny someone can bet best ever for 20 years...then how he 'looks' suddenly 20 years is discounted....yeah if you say whats wrong with him every week for the next 4 years...sooner or later you will right...a broken clock is right as well sometimes.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

Brady looks fine to me..funny someone can bet best ever for 20 years...then how he 'looks' suddenly 20 years is discounted....yeah if you say whats wrong with him every week for the next 4 years...sooner or later you will right...a broken clock is right as well sometimes.

He is 45. This is beyond absurd.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

I don’t think it’s ego or selfishness. He doesn’t need the fame or fortune, so it’s probably not those. What then is it?

Football is in his DNA. It is his identity. Brady has played the game for over 40 years. It’s hard to walk away from who you are, especially when you are still playing at a high level. You should know this, Peter.

How many old multi-millionaire lawyers do you see still practicing? They obviously don’t need the money or notoriety. The law flows through their veins. It’s giving something up which you’ve done your entire life that is hard.

as people get up in years, society is younger and younger relatively to them. To young kids, you are just someone to get out of the way at the grocery store, however the job you have can still give you that significance...thats why aging multimillionaires professionals still want the accolades and attention from the mini world society, but once they no longer doing that professin they are just another person to get out of the way at the grocery store...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

as people get up in years, society is younger and younger relatively to them. To young kids, you are just someone to get out of the way at the grocery store, however the job you have can still give you that significance...thats why aging multimillionaires professionals still want the accolades and attention from the mini world society, but once they no longer doing that professin they are just another person to get out of the way at the grocery store...

My two favorite lines on aging.

"Though much is taken, much abides."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,"