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After an incredible, record-breaking career, former Patriots and Buccaneers QB Tom Brady is retiring from the NFL, as confirmed on his Instagram this morning. “This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes,” he wrote. “I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention.” And we have a pretty good idea of what those “other things” are, not least from Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen’s own comments in recent years: his family, whom he’s eager to spend quality time with while his kids are still young and living at home. Brady’s biggest fans have always known how much his kids Jack, Benjamin, and Vivian mean to him — he brings with him to big games whenever he can, and all three have stolen the post-game show in the past as Tom picked them up for a victory lap after a big win. As we look back on Brady’s long career, we’re also looking back at the family devotion he’s shown throughout, perhaps best exemplified by all these photos of Tom hugging his kids on the football field over the years.
Tom shares two kids with wife Bündchen: daughter Vivian Lake Brady and son Benjamin Brady. He shares his oldest son, John “Jack” Edward Moynahan, with ex Bridget Moynahan (otherwise known as Natasha from Sex and the City), and he sees all the kids together as often as he can. This is one family we know for sure will be feeling the love on game day, and you know what that means: a Brady-Moynahan cuddle puddle in the making.
Read on for our favorite pics of Tom hugging his kids out on the field.
A version of this story was originally published in 2021.
Family huddle
At Patriots training camp, Brady needed a quick huddle with Vivian to regain his strength.
Super Bowl hugs
After Brady defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2021 Super Bowl, Benjamin and Jack rushed onto the field to congratulate their dad.
Tom’s mini-me
With his NFL career behind him, Brady has many more father-son moments like this to look forward to with young Benjamin.
Jack and Benjamin run in for a group hug
Incoming! Brady fields his two sons coming at him on the field in 2013.
Ben welcomes his victorious dad
The 2019 Super Bowl, won 13-3 by the New England Patriots, ended with Tom giving son Ben a big hug on camera.
Vivian celebrates a big win
Vivian’s delight in these streamers was too much fun to handle, and definitely distracted us from Tom’s post-game interview.
Hugs all around
Vivian doesn’t cede her prime confetti viewing spot as Tom pulls in his son for a hug.
Tom finds Jack for a hug
After winning a championship game against the Green Bay Packers, Brady headed right into the stands to find his son and celebrate the win.
Ben admires dad’s trophy
At a football parade honoring the Patriots’ win over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, Ben was a little mesmerized by dad’s trophy.
Daddy-daughter love
Even mid-sentence, we can tell dad Tom is smiling here.
Ben & Jack watch yet another win
In 2017, Tom treated his kids to yet another Super Bowl win — here he is with Jack and Ben after the game.
Ben & Jack get some hands-on training
Welcome to football camp, boys! Ben and Jack are getting a front-row seat to the best football training in the world courtesy of dad Tom Brady.
Tom holds Ben like a football
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen with their son Benjamin Brady after a joint workout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at NFL football training camp, in Foxborough, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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