Background

Ethnicity: His father is of Irish descent, while his mother has German, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish ancestry.

Brady was born in San Mateo, California on August 3, 1977, the only son and fourth child of Galynn Patricia (née Johnson) and Thomas Brady, Sr. He has three older sisters, named Nancy, Julie, and Maureen.

A set of Brady's great-great-grandparents on his father's side, John and Bridget Brady, were Irish refugees from the Great Famine who moved to San Francisco from Boston prior to the American Civil War. They were accompanied by Bridget's sister Ann and her husband Lawrence Meegan, the parents of the 19th Century American Major League Baseball player "Steady" Pete Meegan. Brady's great uncle, Michael Buckley Jr. was, also, the first American prisoner of war during World War II.

Education

At the age of four, Brady attended the 1981 NFC Championship against the Dallas Cowboys, in which Montana threw The Catch to Dwight Clark. As a child, Brady attended football camp at the College of San Mateo where he learned to throw the football from camp counselor and future NFL/AFL quarterback Tony Graziani.

Brady attended Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo, where he graduated in 1995; the ceremony was held at St. Mary's Cathedral.

He entered the Major League Baseball draft in 1995 and was picked by the Montreal Expos, but he decided instead to attend the University of Michigan and play football.

Career

Brady, who did not start until his junior year, led Michigan to victory in the 1999 Orange Bowl and gained a reputation as a determined and intelligent player but one who lacked any exceptional physical skills. In 2000 he was chosen in the sixth round of the NFL draft by New England, and he worked diligently during his first season to bulk up physically and improve his strength and technique.

In the second game of the 2001 season, the Patriots’ starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, was injured, and Brady was chosen to fill the position. His play was not spectacular, but he was consistent, making simple plays and minimizing mistakes. With Brady as their starting quarterback, the Patriots went on to post an 11–3 record in the regular season and to upset the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI; Brady was named the Super Bowl MVP. The Patriots became one of the NFL’s elite teams, posting an incredible 40–12 record during Brady’s first three seasons. In 2004 the team returned to the Super Bowl, defeating the Carolina Panthers and earning Brady another Super Bowl MVP award. The momentum carried through to the next season, as the Patriots extended their consecutive win streak to 21, breaking the record of 18 set by the Miami Dolphins in 1972–73. Brady and the Patriots capped off the season with their third Super Bowl in four years, this time against the Philadelphia Eagles.

In the 2007 season Brady threw an unprecedented 50 touchdown passes (the record was broken by Brady’s longtime rival Peyton Manning in 2013), and he led New England to the first 16–0 regular season in NFL history, earning NFL MVP honours in the process. However, the Patriots lost to the underdog New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII. In the first game of the 2008 NFL schedule, Brady suffered a severe knee injury that required season-ending surgery. He returned to form the next season, earning a Pro Bowl selection after guiding the Patriots to another play-off berth. Brady led the NFL with 36 touchdown passes in 2010 and helped the Patriots to a league-best 14–2 record. Despite the Patriots getting upset in their first play-off game the following postseason, he was named league MVP a second time, becoming the first player to capture the award unanimously.

During the 2011 season Brady passed for 5,235 yards to become—along with new record holder Drew Brees—one of two quarterbacks to surpass Dan Marino’s single-season passing yardage record (which was also broken by Manning in 2013), and he led the Patriots to another Super Bowl loss to the Giants in February 2012. Brady continued playing at a Pro-Bowl level in 2012 and 2013, guiding the Patriots to losses in the AFC championship game in each season. Following the 2014 regular season, he helped the team get over its recent hump as New England routed the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game to earn Brady his record sixth Super Bowl start. However, that victory was soon awash in controversy, as it was found that 11 of the 12 footballs that the Patriots had used in the game were markedly underinflated, which can make them easier to grip and travel farther when thrown. The NFL looked into the incident, but no action was taken before the Super Bowl, where Brady led a fourth-quarter rally in a 28–24 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Brady passed for 328 yards and four touchdowns in the contest to earn his third Super Bowl MVP trophy.

In May 2015 Brady was suspended for four games of the upcoming season for his role in the ball deflations during the AFC championship game and for not fully cooperating with the NFL’s investigation into the matter. Brady and his lawyers appealed the suspension, arguing that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had overstepped the bounds of the collective-bargaining agreement between the league and the players’ union in handing down the punishment, and the suspension was overturned by a U.S. federal judge shortly before the start of the 2015 NFL season. The affair seemed to motivate Brady, as he led the Patriots to a blistering 10–0 start to the 2015 season that ultimately ended with yet another division title for New England. He passed for 4,770 yards and an NFL-high 36 touchdowns that year, but his team’s season ended in the AFC championship game with a loss to Manning and the Denver Broncos. During the off-season, however, his suspension from the previous year was reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals and applied to the first four games of the 2016 season. On December 4 of that year, Brady set a new NFL record for wins as a starting quarterback when he led the Patriots to the 201st win of his tenure. His strong postsuspension play (including a career-low two interceptions over the season) helped the Patriots win a league-best 14 games and capture another AFC title. In the following Super Bowl, Brady tallied a then-record 466 passing yards as well as two touchdowns as he led the Patriots to the largest comeback ever in that game (overcoming a 25-point third-quarter deficit in overtime) to win an unprecedented fifth title as an NFL starting quarterback. In 2017 Brady led the NFL with 4,577 passing yards and also threw 32 touchdown passes and just eight interceptions, earning him a third league MVP award. The Patriots again had the best record in the AFC that season and advanced to the Super Bowl for the eighth time in Brady’s career. There, despite Brady breaking his own Super Bowl record with 505 passing yards, the Patriots were upset by the Eagles.

Brady started his 19th professional season with 277 passing yards, three touchdowns, and one interception in a 27–20 victory over the Houston Texans in the season opener. After losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions over the next two games, Brady had 274 passing yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions in a 38–7 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 4. In the following game, a 38–24 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, he had 341 passing yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions to go with a rushing touchdown. One of his touchdown passes went to Josh Gordon, who became the NFL-record 71st different player to catch a touchdown from Brady. In Week 6, a 43–40 victory over the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football, Brady had 340 passing yards and a passing touchdown to go with a four-yard rushing touchdown. In Week 7, a 38–31 victory over the Chicago Bears, he had 277 passing yards, three passing touchdowns, and one interception. In week 12, against the New York Jets, Brady passed for 283 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions and a 115.4 passer rating in a 27-13 victory. In Week 15, Brady reached 70,000 passing yards, becoming only the fourth quarterback in NFL history to accomplish the feat. He finished with 279 passing yards as the Patriots lost 10-17 to the Steelers. During Week 16 against the Bills, Brady was limited to 126 passing yards, but the Patriots combined for 273 rushing yards and won 24-12, clinching the AFC East pennant for the 10th consecutive season and 16th time in 18 years. In Week 17 against the Jets, Brady completed 24 of 33 passes for 250 yards, and 4 touchdowns in a win. Brady finished the season completing 375 of 570 passes (65.8), 4,355 yards, 29 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

Brady has been featured as a guest star on some popular television programs, hosting Saturday Night Live in 2005 and voicing himself on The Simpsons in 2005 ("Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass") and Family Guy in 2006 ("Patriot Games"); both football-themed episodes were broadcast within a week of that year's Super Bowl. In 2009, he appeared as himself in a sixth season episode of Entourage. In 2015, he had cameo appearances as fictionalized versions of himself in the Entourage movie and Ted 2.

In 2007, Brady was a model for the Stetson cologne. Brady has endorsed brands including Uggs, Under Armour, Movado, Aston Martin and Glaceau Smartwater. According to Forbes, he earned about $7 million from endorsements alone in 2014. In 2016, he began appearing in a Beautyrest Black commercial campaign for Simmons Bedding Company.

On January 20, 2016, Brady announced the launch of his peak performance website TB12Sports.com. The site features information on Brady's training regimen and includes a store to purchase TB12 equipment and merchandise. Later in the year, on August 23, 2016, the TB12 brand then expanded to offer a snack line. The snacks contain raw, vegan, and organic ingredients that are also free of gluten and dairy. The following month, Brady, alongside Boston Private and Robert Paul Properties, announced the formation of the TB12 Foundation. The purpose of the nonprofit foundation is to provide free post-injury rehabilitation care and training to underprivileged, young athletes. In March 2017, Brady moved beyond his snack line and partnered with meal-kit startup Purple Carrot to offer his own line of TB12 Performance Meals. The meals utilize whole foods and focus on providing nutrients for workout recovery. On September 19, 2017, Simon & Schuster published Brady's first book, The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance. Within 48 hours, it had become a number one best-seller on Amazon.com. The book also reached #1 on the New York Times' weekly Best Sellers list, to be featured in the edition of October 8, 2017.

Filmmaker Gotham Chopra filmed Brady during the 2017 offseason and regular season for a Facebook Watch documentary series entitled Tom vs Time. According to The New York Times, the documentary follows Brady as he "conducts his ongoing subversion campaign against the actuarial tables of quarterback longevity."

Achievements

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  Tom Brady is one of only two players in NFL history to have won five Super Bowls (along with defensive player Charles Haley), and he is the only player to have won them all with a single franchise. Because of his numerous accomplishments and accolades, many analysts and sportswriters consider Brady to be among the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
  
  Brady has been honored with four Super Bowl MVP awards (Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX, and LI), the most ever by a single player, has won three league MVP awards (2007, 2010, 2017), has been selected to 14 Pro Bowls, and has led his team to more division titles (15) than any other quarterback in NFL history. Brady is fourth all-time in total career passing yards in regular season play, is tied for third in career touchdown passes, and fourth in career passer rating. He is first all-time in career passing yards (regular season and postseason combined). His career postseason record is 27–10, winning more playoff games than any other quarterback, and he has appeared in more playoff games than any player at any position. Brady has never had a losing season as a starting quarterback in the NFL. His combined regular-season and postseason wins are also the most of any quarterback in NFL history. Brady is the first and only quarterback to reach 200 regular season wins. Brady also holds the record of being the oldest player to win the Super Bowl MVP at 39 years of age, and the oldest player to win the regular season MVP at the age of 40.
  
  

Works

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Religion

Tom was raised Catholic.

Politics

Brady attended the 2004 State of the Union Address as a special guest of then-President George W. Bush. In 2004, he told ESPN The Magazine that being a U.S. Senator would be his "craziest ambition".

Brady is a friend of President Donald Trump; in 2017, Brady indicated he had known Trump "for 16 years". At a political event in New Hampshire on the day before the 2016 presidential election, Trump said he had received a call from Brady, and that Brady told him "Donald, I support you, you're my friend, and I voted for you." However, after Gisele Bündchen was asked directly on Instagram whether she and Brady backed Trump, Bündchen answered "NO!". After a Trump campaign "Make America Great Again" cap was photographed in Brady's locker, Brady said that Bündchen told him not to discuss politics anymore, which he thought was a "good decision". Brady did not join most of his teammates from the New England Patriots in visiting Trump and the White House in April 2017, citing "personal family matters".

While there has been speculation that Brady would run for political office in the future, in a 2015 interview he stated he had no interest in doing so.

Views

Brady practices transcendental meditation.

Quotations: "I could talk food all day. I love good food."

"Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts."

"When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web."

Personality

While not the strongest or quickest quarterback in the NFL, Brady established himself among the game’s greats for his tenacity, his intelligent playmaking abilities, and the remarkable leadership he provided under pressure.

Brady and his family adhere to a controversial, strict diet, the TB12 Method, that has attracted much media attention. He advocates drinking "half" of one's body weight in ounces of water daily. He doesn't eat or drink the majority of fruits, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, coffee, Gatorade, white sugar or flour, gluten, dairy, soda, cereal, white rice, potatoes, and bread.

Tom Brady can speak some Mandarin Chinese.

Physical Characteristics: Height - 6 ft 4 in or 193 cm

Weight - 102 kg or 225 lbs

Hair Color - Light Brown

Eye Color - Blue

Distinctive Features - Tall and muscular stature

Chest – 46 in or 117 cm

Arms / Biceps – 16 in or 41 cm

Waist – 37 in or 94 cm

Interests

• Tom Brady is also known for his approach to fitness.

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• Politicians

  Donald Trump

• Writers

  “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” by don Miguel Ruiz

• Sport & Clubs

  Tom Brady grew up as a Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics fan.
  
  Brady practices yoga regularly.

• Athletes

  In the 1980s, Brady regularly attended San Francisco 49ers games at Candlestick Park, where he was a fan of quarterback Joe Montana; since then, Brady mentioned Montana as his idol and one of his inspirations.

• Music & Bands

  Jay-Z, Coldplay, U2, Pearl Jam, Kendrick Lamar

Connections

Brady dated actress Bridget Moynahan from 2004 until late 2006. On February 18, 2007, Moynahan confirmed to People magazine that she was more than three months pregnant with Brady's child. Brady and Moynahan ended their relationship sometime in early December 2006, around the time Moynahan became pregnant. John Edward Thomas Moynahan was born on August 22, 2007, at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. John's middle names are Brady's own first and middle names in reverse order, while Moynahan's father's first name is Edward.

Brady began dating Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen in December 2006. In 2009, Brady revealed they had been set up on a blind date by a mutual friend. Brady and Bündchen married on February 26, 2009, in an intimate Catholic ceremony in Santa Monica, California. Together, they have two children: a son named Benjamin Rein was born December 8, 2009, and a daughter named Vivian Lake was born December 5, 2012.

Brady and baseball player Kevin Youkilis became brothers-in-law in 2012, when Youkilis married Brady's sister Julie.

Brady and his family live in Brookline, Massachusetts and New York City.

Father:

Thomas Brady, Sr.

Mother:

Galynn Patricia Brady

Spouse:

Gisele Caroline Bundchen

(born 20 July 1980)

She is a Brazilian model and actress.

Sister:

Julie Brady

Sister:

Maureen Brady

Sister:

Nancy Brady

Daughter:

Vivian Lake Brady

(born 2012)

Son:

Benjamin Brady

(born 2009)

Son:

John Edward Thomas Moynahan

(born 2007)

Partner:

Bridget Moynahan

(born April 28, 1971)

She is an American actress and model, best known for her role in the police drama Blue Bloods. She graduated from Longmeadow High School in Massachusetts in 1989, and began pursuing a career in modeling.

Friend:

Donald Trump

(born June 14, 1946)

He is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

colleague:

Colin Kaepernick

(born November 3, 1987)

He is an American political activist and professional American football quarterback who is currently a free agent.

References

• 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption
• Tom Brady: The Inspiring Story of One of Football's Greatest Quarterbacks (Football Biography Books)
• Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football
• On the Field with...Tom Brady
• Who is Tom Brady?: Get your feet on the ground and play football (J.D. Rockefeller's Book Club)
• Tom Brady: The Incredible Story of Tom Brady – One of Football’s Greatest Players!
• Tom Brady (Sports All-Stars)