Brady, the seemingly ageless superstar quarterback, is fully intending to suit up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this coming season at age 45.
“These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady wrote.
Players, and especially quarterbacks, have been courted for decades to transition to the broadcast booth at the end of their playing careers.
Once upon a time former players had to at least feign at learning the new job — the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman spent a year on Fox’s No.
Romo immediately teamed up with Jim Nantz on CBS’s top broadcast in 2017 and was a revelation with his play predicting abilities.
Television networks that show football typically speak with head coaches, quarterbacks and sometimes other players before games to garner material for their broadcasts, and they are constantly interviewing players.
Brady was long seen as having a fairly wooden personality, and for years in New England he probably would not have been a top candidate for a stellar media career, despite his success on the field.
After several years of cycling through uninspiring broadcast teams for “Monday Night Football,” ESPN finally spent big this year to lure both Joe Buck and Aikman away from Fox, where they had called games for 20 years.
Amazon, which expanded the number of games it will broadcast under the new N.F.L.
