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NFL: Tom Brady admits concussions, vows not to be forced from NFL

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/04/08/tombrady.jpg"/><figcaption>Tom Brady has notably not been diagnosed with concussions, although his wife -- supermodel Gisele Bundchen -- said in May 2017 he had suffered concussions. Winslow Townson, USA Today Sports, Reuters/File</figcaption></figure></div>Tom Brady admitted Wednesday he has suffered concussions during 20 NFL seasons with the New England Patriots but says that won&#x27;t stop him from chasing a seventh Super Bowl crown.The 42-year-old quarterback, who signed a two-year contract last month with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said on &quot;The Howard Stern Show&quot; on Sirius XM radio he has sustained major head injuries but rejected the notion he needs to quit playing because of it.&quot;I&#x27;ve definitely had concussions, yeah,&quot; Brady admitted.&quot;I could sit here and stop playing football so I could worry about what&#x27;s going to happen or worry about this or that instead of saying, &#x27;Why don&#x27;t I live my life the way that I want to and enjoy it?&#x27;&quot;For me, it&#x27;s doing what I love to do. You don&#x27;t tell a musician to stop singing at age 42. You don&#x27;t tell a great painter to stop painting at 42.&quot;But those artists generally don&#x27;t suffer severe head injuries in their creative outlets.&quot;If you want to stop, stop, go ahead,&quot; Brady said. &quot;But for me, because I feel like I can still play, doesn&#x27;t mean I should just stop playing because that&#x27;s what everyone tells me I should do.&quot;The NFL has tightened rules to protect players who might have head injuries, but Brady has notably not been diagnosed with concussions, although his wife -- supermodel Gisele Bundchen -- said in May 2017 he had suffered concussions.&quot;He has concussions pretty much every, I mean, we don&#x27;t talk about, but he does have concussions,&quot; she said. &quot;I don&#x27;t really think it&#x27;s a healthy thing for anybody to go through.&quot;An NFL statement said all reports from unaffiliated neurotrauma consultants and certified athletic trainer spotters at 2016 Patriots games showed &quot;there are no records that indicate that Mr. Brady suffered a head injury or concussion, or exhibited or complained of concussion symptoms.&quot;Brady told Stern that while he didn&#x27;t make a &quot;final, final decision&quot; until March 16, he was fairly certain the 2019 season would be his last with the Patriots even though he wanted to continue his career.&quot;I would say I probably knew before the start of last season that it was my last year,&quot; Brady said. &quot;I knew that our time was coming to an end.&quot;Brady said he realized &quot;it was just time&quot; to find another club.&quot;I don&#x27;t know what to say other than that,&quot; Brady said. &quot;I accomplished everything I could in two decades with an incredible organization... no one can ever take those experiences or Super Bowl championships away from us.&quot;<div>No Belichick resentment</div>Brady said he had no resentment toward Patriots coach Bill Belichick at not keeping him after winning an NFL record six titles under his guidance.&quot;I think he has a lot of loyalty,&quot; Brady said. &quot;So many wrong assumptions were made about our relationship or about how he felt about me. I know genuinely how he feels about me.&quot;What his responsibility as coach is to get the best player for the team, not only in the short term but in the long term as well. So what I could control is trying to be the best I could be in both of those situations.&quot;I got into uncharted territory as an athlete because I started to break the mold of what so many other athletes had experienced, so I got to the point where I was an older athlete and he&#x27;s starting to plan for the future, which is what his responsibility is.&quot;I don&#x27;t fault him for that. That&#x27;s what he should be doing.&quot;(For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="https://sports.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>).

Brady has notably not been diagnosed with concussions, although his wife -- supermodel Gisele Bundchen -- said in May 2017 he had suffered concussions.

Brady has notably not been diagnosed with concussions, although his wife -- supermodel Gisele Bundchen -- said in May 2017 he had suffered concussions.