
{"id":510298,"date":"2026-03-26T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510298"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:07:27","slug":"brady-reveals-nfl-didnt-like-the-idea-of-him-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brady-reveals-nfl-didnt-like-the-idea-of-him-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady reveals NFL didn\u2019t like the idea of him coming back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady shared he explored the chance of coming out of retirement and returning to the league, sharing that the NFL did not \u201clike very much that idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom, who last played in the league 4 years ago and is now a minority owner of the Raiders, claimed that he is happy to be retired.<\/p>\n<p>But the legend also revealed that he talked about his options with the league about his possibility of returning to the field while being an owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually discussed this topic with them, and they were not very fond of the idea of me coming back,\u201d Brady shared.<\/p>\n<p>Tom, who will turn 49 this summer, would need to divest his ownership stake in Las Vegas if he were to pursue a comeback in the NFL, according to the rules.<\/p>\n<p>The former Patriots superstar purchased a 5% share of the Raiders 2 years ago. Brady also shared with the media that he now enjoys playing flag football and that he enjoys not getting hit anymore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Brady told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sherman4949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sherman4949<\/a> that he asked the NFL about potentially returning as a player while still being a minority owner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually have inquired, and they don&#39;t like that idea very much. We explored a lot of different things, and I\u2019m very happily retired.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSiWwbGbGz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MSiWwbGbGz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/2037175103927046367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady shared he explored the chance of coming out of retirement and returning to the league, sharing that the NFL did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510299,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,16749],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,18414],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Tom talked about a potential comeback in the National Football League.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510300,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510298\/revisions\/510300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510298"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510298"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}