Tom Brady, biggest quarterback in history of American football, retires

A year after having announced, then gave up, to put an end to his career, the 45 -year -old, former star of the New England Patriots, derives his reverence.

by Clément Martel

This time, promised, “it’s for good”. A year after announcing his retirement, then backtracking a month and a half later to play a final season, Tom Brady announced on Wednesday 1 in February, put an end to his career. Without drums or trumpets. “We are only entitled to a single announcement of retirement full of emotion, and I used mine last year,” said the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a short message Disposed on his social networks.

With his wide shoulders, his frank smile and his career to make a novelist pale, the one who embodies the American Hero of Sport to the extreme has put an end to his capital career. If in 2014, Tom Brady explained that he would only consider retirement “when he] would be zero”, it was after a final season successful that the biggest quarterback in history is reverse.

In American football, sport with plethoric workforce (the NFL, the North American professional league, authorizes up to 53 players per team), the quarterback is the lighthouse towards whom all the eyes are turning. The head of an “Golgoths” orchestra leading to the wand his partners with ads and passes. And Tom Brady is, undoubtedly possible, the biggest quarterback in history. With ten participations in the Super Bowl (the NFL final), seven trophies, five MVP titles (best player) in the final and three of the best player in the regular season, the Californian leaves the Bardé trophies and records in all Genres – including that of the greatest number of Touchdown passes (649). However, at the end of the 1990s, very little would have imagined such a destiny.

Like the hero of Charles Aznavour’s song who “already saw himself at the top of the poster”, Tom Brady left his province at 18, determined to grab life. Far from his native California, the young man chooses the University of Michigan, which however has several players at his post. “I wanted to play against the best, he explains thereafter, interviewed by nbc sports . The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known to the unknown. But for anyone And courage, the danger disappears. “

the advent of the” Kid comeback “

At 45 years old, Tom Brady played a final season in 2022-2023, a year after having announced his retirement for the first time. Mike Ehrmann/AFP

selected only at the 199 E Position and in the Sixth Tour of the Draft 2000, the young Tom Brady joins the Massachusetts and the New England Patriots . In an interview in 2021, the player engages in lucid self -analysis: “There were reasons why I was drafted so late: I am still not the biggest, the strongest, the fastest.” But The physique does not do everything for quarterbacks, these generals of the armies of players. And from his university career, Brady won by his tireless desire to defeat, which quickly earned him the nickname “comeback kid” – for his propensity to tirelessly bring back his teams to the brand.

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