A month after losing Super Bowl LII to the Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is opening up about the defeat and how he’s using it as a lesson for his children.
‘That was the first time I had seen my kids really react in that way,’ he said in an upcoming episode of his Facebook series, ‘Tom vs. Time,’ that will air Monday. ‘Benny was crying. Vivi [Vivian] was crying. They were sad for me and sad for the Patriots.’
Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen’s eight-year-old son Benjamin and five-year-old daughter Vivian are featured prominently on his Facebook series, which was previewed by ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ on Wednesday.
Tom Brady’s Facebook series ‘Tom vs. Time’ will air a new episode on Monday
A disappointed Tom Brady hugs wife Gisele Bundchen and their children Benjamin and Vivian following the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl LII loss to the underdog Philadelphia Eagles
‘I just said to them, I said look, this is a great lesson,’ said Brady, who is 5-3 in eight career Super Bowl appearances. ‘We don’t always win. We try our best and sometimes it doesn’t go the way we want.’
GMA co-host and legendary New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan chimed in after a clip of the interview ran on Friday’s show, reminding the audience of Brady’s unparalleled success.
‘He has three kids and he has five rings,’ said Strahan. ‘He needs one more so each of them can have two.’
Of course, Strahan is one reason Brady isn’t a six-time Super Bowl champion, having sacked him during the Giants’ historic upset of an undefeated Patriots team in Super Bowl XLII.
Brady’s Super Bowl performance was a bit of a mixed bag. He completed 28 of 48 passing attempts for three touchdowns and a Super Bowl-record 505 yards without yielding an interception. However, he failed to haul in an easy catch on a trick play – something his Eagles counterpart Nick Foles did for a touchdown – and he fumbled on the Patriots’ penultimate drive, which effectively sealed the win for Philadelphia.
Bundchen rushed to her husband’s side after the disappointing loss.
The former Victoria’s Secret model sipped red wine while she watched the game with their three children from a box at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota Sunday night.
But when a fumble by Brady in the final seconds of the game ended all chances of a Patriots comeback, Bundchen brought the kids downstairs to meet their father the second he came off the field.
Tom Brady talks Super Bowl loss and how he’s using defeat as a lesson for his kids: “We don’t always win. We try our best and sometimes it doesn’t go the way we want.” pic.twitter.com/5sqJIdb49h
— Good Morning America (@GMA) March 7, 2018
The former model congratulated the winning Eagles squad in her caption for the photo, written in both English and Portuguese
A USA Today Sports reporter who was in the tunnel when the losing Patriots team came off the field says the couple’s two youngest kids – five-year-old Vivian and eight-year-old Benjamin – were so distraught at their father’s loss that they started to cry.
Bundchen used the moment to try and teach her kids a lesson about being a good sport.
When Vivian cried out that the Eagles had won, her mother responded: ‘Just this time. Daddy won five times. They never won before.’
‘Their whole life, they never won a Super Bowl. You have to let someone else win sometimes,’ Bundchen said.
‘Sometimes you have to let other people win…We have to share. Sharing is caring,’ she added.
Brady’s eldest child, 10-year-old John, stood stoically next to his step-mom.
A few minutes later, Brady walked off the field to cheers of ‘Daddy!’ from his three kids.
Brady then walked over to his family and got down on one knee to speak to his kids.
On Monday, Bundchen posted a picture of the moment she and an emotional Brady embraced when he walked off the field.
Following the New England Patriots’ loss to the New York Giants in 2012, Gisele Bundchen had angrily defended her husband. ‘My husband cannot f****** throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time,’ she had said after the game
‘Congratulations Eagles for winning the Super bowl, what a game that was! Congratulations Patriots for giving your best and to my love, we are incredibly proud of you because we are able to see ever day all the commitment, sacrifice and hard work that you have devoted to become the best in what you do. We love you!’ she captioned the photo.
Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel tweeted that Bundchen congratulated every Eagles player she came across as she walked through the stadium Sunday night.
‘Gisele, walking a back hallway to leave the stadium, took time to personally congratulate every Eagles player she ran into. They looked star struck,’ Wetzel wrote.
Bundchen’s gracious display was a change from the last time the Patriots lost a Super Bowl.
After the 2012 loss to the New York Giants, Bundchen was recorded blaming the Patriots receivers for dropping so many of her husband’s passes.
‘My husband cannot f****** throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times,’ she said at the time.
Tom Brady fumbled a catch during the Super Bowl – and Twitter users were quick to mock the quarterback using an infamous remark made by his wife
Those comments came back to bite Bundchen on Sunday, when her husband dropped a pass in a trick play in the second quarter.
Social media exploded with posts referencing Bunchen’s comments.
‘Gisele is right…apparently her husband can’t catch the ball,’ a Twitter user named Ralph wrote.
While Gisele is being lauded for her graceful reaction to the loss this year, the same cannot be said for her husband, who rushed off the field before going and shake the hand of rival quarterback Nick Foles, as is tradition.
He was also criticized for his post-game press conference, where he attributed the Eagles’ win to ‘a good play at the right time’.
As anyone who watched the game can attest to, the Eagles win had a lot moer to do with one simple play.
DailyMail.com Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan found Brady’s comments lacking in sportsmanship.
‘That was it, the full staggeringly churlish scale of his appreciation of his opponents’ thrilling win,’ Morgan wrote.
Brady rushed off the field but did eventually congratulate at least one Eagles player in person.
One journalist snapped a picture of Brady shaking the hand of Eagles defensive end Derek Barnett outside the teams’ locker rooms.