Gisele Bündchen Claims She Did Not Order Tom Brady To Retire From Bucs
March 22nd, 2023
Don’t blame her.
While some folks believe the beginning of the end of the Tom Brady Era was when Cooper Kupp caught a bomb in the final seconds of a home loss to the Rams in the 2021 playoffs, others point to Brady’s then-wife, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
It is believed Bündchen gave Brady a direct edict that once the 2021 season was over, so was his career.
Like a deity who stayed in his grave for 40 days only to rise again, 40 days after announcing his retirement, Brady, the greatest quarterback who ever lived, rose from football death to return to Tampa Bay.
Many believe Brady’s head wasn’t fully in the game as it was later learned Brady and Bündchen would split, ending their fairy tale union.
In a sitdown with Michelle Ruiz for Vanity Fair, Bündchen calls that charge complete nonsense.
Yet the tabloids “made me somebody who is against football,” she said of the headlines. “Are you kidding me? I learned about it! I used to joke that I was going to be able to be the ref because I’ve watched so many games. And I loved it.” The winking conspiracy about Bündchen’s magical powers escalated when Brady divulged in 2019 that Bündchen built him pregame altars and gifted him special “healing stones.” She confirms that she drew homeopathic floral baths for Brady—“whenever he was going through difficult times, you know, he has a lot of intensity, to help him calm his nerves”—and gave him onyx, “a stone of protection,” and a statue of the Hindu deity Ganesha, the remover of obstacles.
When I ask Bündchen if there were stories written about their split that simply weren’t true, she flatly replies, “Everything.”
“Like, I would give up my dream because of…” Bündchen trails off.
“One more season?” I attempt to fill in.
“Wow, people really made it about that,” she says. …
“When you love someone, you don’t put them in a jail and say, ‘You have to live this life.’ You set them free to be who they are, and if you want to fly the same direction, then that’s amazing.”
It seems Bündchen wasn’t conning Ruiz. Bündchen claimed she and the children she bore with Brady remained hardcore Bucs fans right through to the bitter end. That end was the Bucs’ embarrassing loss to the Cowboys in the wild card round in January.
And she sounded just like a Bucs fan when she called out an element of the Bucs that fans habitually holler about.
“It was tough,” Bündchen said of the playoff loss ending the Brady Era. “But you know what? Let’s just be honest. It’s a team sport and you can’t play alone.
“I think he did great under the circumstances that he had. I mean, he had no offensive line.”
Some Bucs observers claim Brady’s focus was elsewhere last season. They point to his 10-day sabbatical in training camp where he reportedly went with Bündchen somewhere tropical as a last-ditch chance to save their marriage.
Joe thinks Brady was locked in, as always. Did he look distracted when he pulled off those late-game heroics and had the Bucs on the march against the Browns until the ball was pulled out of his hands?
So the moral of this story is, don’t blame Bündchen for the Bucs crumbling. At least, that is what Bündchen wants you to believe.
Also in the story, Bündchen claims the very first time she stepped foot in Tampa was when she and Brady moved to Derek Jeter’s compound.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:24 am
I’ve seen so many people blast her, blame her for trying to hold back to GOAT from living his dream. It’s misogyny, pure and simple.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:36 am
No, she just passive-aggressively antagonized, gaslighted, and nagged him to.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:37 am
Love misogyny, repeal the 19th yall.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:42 am
Honestly, who cares ?
Brady is not our QB anymore.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:46 am
Bunchen is like , I didn’t want him to retire, I was having my fun with the Jiu-jizitu instructor.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:47 am
And the reason for that is… ?
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:48 am
@YucBall,
What’s your evidence? We’re you hanging with the family and witnessed it? Or did you just buy all the remarks made by people like you?
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:49 am
Sasquatch, misogyny? If Brady had a husband who was trying to get him off the field “What else do you have to prove!!!” I would have not been happy with him either….. just because she is a woman and someone says something bad about her does not auto equal Misogyny.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:52 am
She is literally on video after the super bowl win extorting him to retire because now he’s done it all
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:53 am
Brady’s a big boy. He made his own decisions. He has a family and had a wife whose opinion was important to him. That’s his life. He makes his decisions, and I’m betting if you asked him, he wouldn’t blame her. So what’s with the blame? It’s like little boys complaining that their mommy won’t let them play. It’s bitterness towards women, this Gisele blaming. I have no opinion on her as a person because I know nothing of her, and I don’t care.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:54 am
If Brady was distracted at all, it’s not Giselle‘s fault. I would put more blame on all the different media outlets that decided to turn a private decision into a public spectacle.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:56 am
You guys are funny, defending this blaming nonsense. The lack of awareness is amusing.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:56 am
After she whispered in his ear “is this finally enough after they won the Super Bowl” after they won the Super Bowl, I’m not sure I believe everything she’s saying. Lol.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:58 am
We’ll never really know, because it isn’t really any of our business tbh. There so many other factors to consider, but people were using the Brady divorce to fill in blanks of “why” Bradys’ play was spotty in 2022. Hope both the best, and hope they spare us from the media campaign that comes with book deals.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:02 am
I believe her
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:04 am
Ok sasquatch, where exactly did you receive your brainwashing from? All men are evil! Belive all women! Lol you are a joke.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:08 am
Mike C,
You have no funking clue what you’re talking about. I said nothing about “all men are evil”… That sounds like your projection, which means it’s actually you who are a joke… Nice goin’ Champ!
#FunkingD0uchebag
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:09 am
Mike C,
You have no ph0uecking clue what you’re talking about. I said nothing about “all men are evil”… That sounds like your projection, which means it’s actually you who are a joke… Nice goin’ Champ!
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:13 am
Bottom line is Brady is responsible for his decisions, regardless of who was whispering in his ear. Blaming the wife is an old-school, wife as a “ball and chain”, women-resenting pattern. It’s total BS.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:14 am
Yeah, yeah.
But did she take her shirt off?
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:18 am
“@YucBall,
What’s your evidence?”
Here is one piece of evidence he was henpecked. What was the very first thing she said to him after the Bucs won the Super Bowl? She nagged about him quitting.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:19 am
sasquatch is a true White Knight, Giselle isn’t going to sleep with you bro.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:19 am
It doesn’t really matter, does it?
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:19 am
Load.of.absolute.rubbish
The Hag was on tv after SB55 saying “what more do you have to prove?” She couldn’t let him enjoy it without her haggish henpecking. She’s a hypocrite and an entitled biotch.
Good riddance to the Ghag, Tommy.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:21 am
She can say what she wants today. The years of nagging have already shown her cards. Women lie too, simps
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:22 am
I mean it could be a self-serving story she’s putting out to not look bad. No way I believe she didn’t want him to retire. She had all kinds of stuff planned and was quoted as saying “now is my time”. Then TB12 did a fumblerooski and went back to the Bucs. Then suddenly he’s getting a divorce.
Regardless he probably lost his wife for one more year with a team that imploded after all the injuries and having the wrong head coach. Had he stayed retired they’re probably still together. My 3 cents anyway.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:22 am
“What more do you have to prove?”
We all heard it on the Super Bowl broadcast. If that isn’t a request to retire, I don’t know what is.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:25 am
Interesting quote from Giselle, ““I think he did great under the circumstances that he had. I mean, he had no offensive line.” I wonder if Brady thought this too?
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:31 am
She is a good mom, supporting her kids love for their Dad, & cheering on the Bucs last season and being a great Mom to not talk crap about their Dad; but she definitely was telling him to make a decision whether directly or in a passive aggressive manner.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:36 am
She’s probably just doing damage control. She’s non-news without Brady.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:39 am
I don’t blame her. She is a celebrity too and she wants to do her stuff and be a mom but she needs help but Brady was busy being the GOAT which no one can blame him. I do think it effected Brady but I also think just the whole team situation did with him retiring to unretiring but finding out he wanted out to Miami I think that made some teammates lose trust in him a bit. All I know is I am great full for Brady coming to the BUCS and giving us hope and something to be proud of.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:40 am
I have no issues with her telling him to retire. She’s within her rights and correctly stated he needed to spend more time with his kids. She shouldn’t deny it though
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:40 am
Brady escaped The Bowles Curse.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:52 am
The offensive line falls on the GM, personnel, and the HC.
IMO – it was reckless to depend on a rookie from a small school to protect a 45 year old QB, which happened to be the GOAT.
Not really the recipe for contending. Losing Jensen was the death blow.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:58 am
Reputation rehab for a supermodel.
The fact is Brady finally ran low on young.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:01 pm
“What more do you have to prove?” sounds like a reasonable question to me. That’s not nagging. You neanderthals just wants yer wimmins to shut their mouths and not have an opinion on the family. That’s how families work dumbasses! It’s still Brady’s decision, and if you refer to that as “nagging”, you have issues with women and your wives are probably miserable.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:02 pm
I think he caught wind of her cheating and said screw this, Im going back. But Im sure it messed with him. Then all the issues we had with O line injuries, rooks not doing so well…then of course dumbwich and bowels running things.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:03 pm
So sas is a female….you had me fooled…nice
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:09 pm
MadMax Says:
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:03 pm
It’s funny that defending family and objecting to derogations like “hag” or “nagger” would make me female in your book. Being a man doesn’t mean you have to be a d!ck.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Tom Brady didn’t get divorced because he played football.
Tom Brady played football because he was getting divorced…
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Not saying anything about the defending part…thats your business. It just came across a certain way….sorry if i was wrong.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:17 pm
I think AT BEST, you’re somewhat sub-consciously distracted by all that he had going on in Life and his situation. That’s major stuff and it would affect any of us to some degree that way. If not in more ways. So I don’t agree with the, I believe he was fully locked in quote here. Maybe not a lot, but still a definite distraction.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:23 pm
AB really unraveled it all…
He melted down and then additional injuries destabilized the team which led to not beating Stafford and the Rams which led to Brady not retiring with a second Bucs SB which led to the wasted season and acceleration of the inevitable divorce with Gisele
Life happens
If we want to blame anyone, let’s blame AB — he was great and then he burned everything to the ground
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:29 pm
sasquatch! Wow. Do you take Midol for those specific “aches and pains?”
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:30 pm
“you have issues with women and your wives are probably miserable”
My wife would have congratulated me instead of making it about her first. That’s how families work, not the one sided you think happens.
March 22nd, 2023 at 12:42 pm
don’t blame Bündchen for the Bucs crumbling.
What Bundchen said- the OLine -plus injuries , inferior DLine and poor offensive game planning
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:03 pm
Y’all take it easy on Sasquatch. It’s that time of the month and he’s cranky. But we do salute him for being in touch with his feminine side.
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:03 pm
Sooo why did she leave him then? Guess she really wants to be a strong and independent woman having her hot girl summer..
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:03 pm
Their marriage was in trouble long before Brady unretired. I think it’s backwards. She told him it was over, so he said fine, Im playing. His first retirement was a last ditch effort to save the relationship. She wanted him to retire after Superbowl 53. That was 2019.
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:25 pm
Who cares?
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:50 pm
LMAO again there sure is alot of “I think” to fill in blanks to matters we aren’t privy to as football fans.
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:52 pm
AlabamaBucsFan … ‘Interesting quote from Giselle, ““I think he did great under the circumstances that he had. I mean, he had no offensive line.” I wonder if Brady thought this too?’
I can’t believe either that Joe & every one of the commenters passed on that ‘no offensive line’ dig. Your question is very appropriate Bama. My guess would be YES.
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:57 pm
Looks like most people see past your B.S. sas…
March 22nd, 2023 at 1:59 pm
And you didn’t say all “men are evil”, a good feminist bot would never say that out loud , I was just reading between the lines sorry.
March 22nd, 2023 at 2:00 pm
If she wanted TB12 to really quit the NFL, all she had to do was send the kids to a movie, put on something very skimpy, and pull TB12 into the bedroom!! You know like your wife does when she wants something special! t works about 95% of the time!!
March 22nd, 2023 at 3:07 pm
@Mike C
You are really on here talking like you’ve either been divorced more than once, cheated on, or are a born again virgin or a little bit of all of them. You 100% sound like a boomer
March 22nd, 2023 at 3:19 pm
The responses to my comments are boilerplate male insecurity. It’s funny.
March 22nd, 2023 at 3:46 pm
My take-away from this article is that even Brady’s wife knew he had no offensive line. Or WAS it an offensive line? I dunno, but I digress.
Even Mrs. D-Rok could point out the blocking flaws/fails last year…
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:01 pm
The goat and the scapegoat – who really knows what happens between a couple? Maybe she wanted him to retire on top after the Super Bowl, before the sinking pirate ship of 2022. Ganesh may have sent a vision.
Yeah, Sasquatch… she said he didn’t have an offensive line, but she has received plenty of offensive lines on this site and others. No reason to cast hate to his babe – it’s their business.
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:18 pm
Pretty sure I see the jui jitsu instructors reflection in her eyes.
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:18 pm
I remember on the field after superbowl win she said what else does he have left to prove. That was abuzz kill the way she said it i could tell it was an issue
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:33 pm
Haha this was a great read. Seems Sasquatch can find misogyny under a rock if they wanted to. Much like BucBoy can find Kyle Trask in any article The Joe’s write. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right fellas?
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:46 pm
Yep sas, ignore my valid points and throw out insults, good job!
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:58 pm
Hahaha, valid points? Which ones? I don’t think I read even one actual point.
March 22nd, 2023 at 7:28 pm
Well, I know that I for one believe that men shouldn’t be allowed to criticize rich, silver-spoon fed, highly entitled women. Men should only be allowed to criticize poor degenerate other men.
Leave Geezy alone!
March 22nd, 2023 at 7:50 pm
What I saw was a distracted Brady who missed open receivers despite having good pass blocking. I saw someone who was not in sync with his receivers. Brady to Evans was constantly on the fritz. Yeah. He still threw for a lot of yards, but Brady looked like a regular everyday Joe QB.
March 22nd, 2023 at 9:10 pm
‘I mean he had no offensive line’….BINGO!!!! She’s at least smarter that most of the so called experts saying it was TB12 who was the problem last season. Plus the Bozo of Bozos HC leading the Ship as it went down into the Abyss
March 22nd, 2023 at 9:51 pm
Sheesh. So many people who have opinions about a relationship they know nothing at all about. Sad. Many of you boys need to return to your daytime soap operas now that you don’t have Tom and Giselle speculation to titillate your days.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:00 pm
BRUTAL…he had no offensive line
OUCH! Brutal.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:40 pm
That if Brady had a HUSBAND that was tryingto stop him from playingfor the Bucs, I would not appreciate that either. Therefore it has NOTHING to do with misogyny…….
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:49 pm
You’re dumb.
March 23rd, 2023 at 12:08 am
I said that on day one. They didn’t suddenly get divorced because of one fight over retirement. That whole notion was ridiculous from the start.
There was obviously a lot behind the scenes building up. Anyone who is married or has been divorced knows this.
It’s common sense
March 23rd, 2023 at 12:24 am
Ill take Giselle’s football acumen over most of you neanderthal baby bois any day. Or her life, business, child-rearing… you name it acumen over all you neanderthal baby bois. And you think she’s a nag… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! She has a life idiots. You are the ones on here nagging.
March 23rd, 2023 at 3:06 am
Giselle who? So yesterday. How bout dem Shake & Bake Bucs! Go Baker! Go Bucs!
March 23rd, 2023 at 4:09 am
Good one sas
March 23rd, 2023 at 5:52 am
One true bit about life is that you can never know what is going on in someone elses house. Even if they tell you. That is their perception. Another true bit is even most regular “couples” have problems once you really get to know them.