12/28/2023 0 Comments Tom brady press conference feb 6 2017![]() ![]() What's more, he has steered about half the team to Guerrero's care, to the consternation of NFL medical staff. He uses resistance bands and anti-gravity treadmills and focuses as much on pliability as strength. NFL weight-training was hurting his joints and robbing him of flexibility, and the food he was eating was inflammatory and making him stiff.īrady now consumes no dairy, white sugar or white flour. But much of what he and Brady have done makes nothing but sense. Brady has been mocked, and Guerrero has been called a quack and a fraud, because of a dicey past in which he made extravagant claims about unproven products. "When I was 25, I was hurting all the time, and I could never have imagined playing this long," he said.Ĭredit for his remarkable longevity goes, whether anyone likes it or not, to the fact that he sought out an unconventional Eastern-medicine masseuse-trainer, Alex Guerrero, at whom NFL doctors look askance. In 2008, he underwent knee surgery that was complicated by a staph infection that required a second surgery, six weeks of antibiotics and wound washes. Somewhere around a decade ago, Brady told the NFL doctors and trainers to get their hands off him, the same way he told Goodell to get his hands off his reputation. I've found a unique way, a little outside the box, that's really worked for me." I try to take care of myself with things I've learned through a lot of positive and negative experiences. "I hang out with a bunch of 20-year-olds, and that makes you feel young. "You know, I don't feel 39," Brady said Monday morning at a news conference to accept his fourth Super Bowl most valuable player trophy. Make fun of Brady's avocado ice cream if you want, but, on the cusp of 40, he has never looked or played better in his life, and he appears to have more years left in those strikingly limber arms and legs. Brady's far more revolutionary act has been to seize control of his own body from a league that specializes in ruining men with Mesozoic training methods and corrupt medical practices rife with painkiller abuses and MRSA infections. Forget the revenge and redemption narrative, the way he made a fool of Goodell over Deflategate. That is the most interesting and important aspect of his career trajectory. ![]() Among other things, Brady is the healthiest great champion the NFL has ever had, both physically and mentally. No player has given a greater lesson in how to use the game of football instead of being used by it, how to build yourself up instead of letting it break you down. You wait patiently for your chance, and you play "to the last whistle," Brady said as he put an arm around Hogan in the postgame locker room. His legacy is not just the record-tying five Super Bowl rings it's the lasting influence he will have on younger players, guys such as receiver Chris Hogan, who was all of 14 when Brady won his first title, in how to go about things in the face of reversal, and re-seize the narrative of your own life and career. He's still upright, having proved that there is no sneaky ball trick, no amount of air that can put the substance and composure in a man to come from 25 points down with 23 minutes to go in the biggest game and win. How about that? He has played this game better, for longer, than anyone in the annals of the game, outsmarted and outlasted not just the unscrupulous commissioner, Roger Goodell, but the hack doctors and the ham-fisted trainers and all of the locker-room scroungers who would use him, or sully him, or steal the jersey from his back, yet leave him crippled up for life. A 39-year-old man completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, and he walked off the field without a limp or a chip on his shoulder. ![]() Tom Brady's ultimate victory is over the whole dumb, stick-a-needle-in-it NFL culture. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady speaks during the Super Bowl LI most valuable player press conference flanked by the Lombardi Trophy at the George R. Updated: FebruPublished: February 7, 2017
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