And, he had a great playbook to build from in parents Galynn Brady and Thomas Brady, who supported his dream of heading to the NFL.
“When I was that long shot as a kid, who was the backup quarterback on a freshman team,” he recalled, “they never said, ‘Man, don’t do that. It’s gonna be too hard. Let’s do something different. Let’s think about another backup plan.’ They kinda said, ‘You know what? Go for it. Whatever you wanna be, go for it.'”
So when it comes to son Jack, who Tom says at 6-foot-5 has his sights set on basketball, the proud dad will never say it’s too high of a goal—even if Jack still has some skill building to do.
“Unfortunately he jumps as high as I do,” Tom joked of Jack. “But I tell him, ‘Dude, you’re gonna be a stud.’ I said, ‘Wait till you hit your growth spurt, you’re gonna be jumping higher, you’re gonna be dunkin’.’ And whether he does or not, who cares? But I want him to know that his dad’s got his back.”
