Tom Brady: Potential NFL Return, Retirement, Fatherhood || DeepCut with VicBlends

Imagine being a kid from San mono California with dreams of making it as a professional athlete one day you pick up the football in high school and eventually make it to the University of Michigan only to land seventh on the death chart not getting a chance to start until your senior year here's where the chip on the shoulder starts the 2000 NFL Draft is year you land in the sixth round pick 199 to the New England Patriots people thought you would never make it to the NFL let alone being a starting quarterback after Decades of

early mornings late nights and sacrifices LED you not only to be a starter in the NFL but the greatest quarterback to ever played the game seven Super Bowls five Super Bowl MVPs and three NFL MVPs there's only one goat my name is Vic Blends and this is deep cut with Tom [Music] Brady what's up V all how you feeling I'm feeling like I need a cut man welcome to the shop let's do it thank you how you doing everything good everything blessed man all right so how you going to do this start getting any inspiration

images come on or you just going to do your thing tell me what you like man how do you like your haircut how do I like my haircut I've gone different styles over a lot of years depends what mood I'm in right now I'm trying to grow it out a little bit so how how how short do you usually go on the sides problem is the shorter I go the more gray it gets and I don't like seeing all those Grays Grays is just wisdom that's all it is gray you get smarter when you see

the Grays Grays is definitely some years of wisdom do you you like it not to be over the ears yeah is it is it behind the ears a little bit behind the ears a little bit um see your ears is super Tight like that I don't like military cut so I don't know I kind of like it a little longer yeah and what about the top just triming the top teeny trim teeny bit little bit on the top teeny trim you style it how do you do it I'm pretty lazy yeah pretty lazy with my

hair you kind of just kind of go a little yeah just kind of keep it a little messy and when it's too messy I wear a hat yeah so if you mess it up then I'm wearing a hat for a long time We're not going to do that today be you keep that stubble keep the stubble for the most part you like it you want me to take it down any bit pretty good leave the stubble got you yeah that feels pretty good and then uh I don't know let you do your thing got you

yeah just little slight box right there on on the bottom of the Sideburn that's nice I like that got you all right man let's do it yeah let's do it man so so how old are you me I'm 24 I'm actually going to Be 25 on April April 9th so next week I'm going to be 25 when did you start cutting hair 7 years ago I picked up clippers for the first time I was in my senior year of high school and I was looking for a side hustle thinking that college was going to be

my route and that I had to get a degree to pretty much be successful in I just knew that I always was going to have I always just had hustle I always just had Drive I always had this entrepreneur mind and I Had no idea what I would do would do if I went to college so just trying to find a way to make money if I went and I remember my barber telling me that if I learn how to cut hair I'll make money for the rest of my life yeah so when I heard

that I was like man rest of my life and money in the same sense I got to see what I could do so you know I picked it up as a passion and you know I heard God tell me my senior year of high school that if I took it serious it Would open doors for me and you know that was all I needed to hear to go ahead and take that all the way as far as I can and you know when I started I just looked at it as I could be 18 19

and do something with barbering that we've never seen before and take a bet on that for myself or I can go to college and you know still a great opportunity but you know I'll be kind of fing in Tradition and and going that direction so I wanted to do something That can Inspire kids you know not only you know go and chase a dream but whatever it is that you can do or you want to do you can be celebrated for it I took a traditional job as a barber and try to show the world

how you can make a Major Impact in a positive way yeah right so today it's no [ __ ] all right that's what it's all about it's no [ __ ] today man so tell me about your new partnership with Noble and how you guys are kind of fighting the same Mission you know I've been through a lot in this second part of my life part of my career professional career you know I found an amazing partner in Noble my friend Mike rooi Mike and I have had a lot of conversations over the years and

how we're going to impact people and the way you do that is through a mindset and the mindset is me versus me it's no [ __ ] and I think what I felt when I had an opportunity to go to college and had an opportunity to go and play pro Sports and I wanted to leave no stone on turn I always wanted to think you know what do I need to do better what where do I need to put more emphasis and it was all about not making excuses and it was really no [ __

] it was about how do we go and get it done where are my priorities and how do I want to go create actions around what my priorities are and still trying to take that mentality though that I had as an athlete into other parts of my life into Other parts of uh you know still ways to touch people in a positive way and impact people in a positive way and I still get to be involved in a lot of sports and sports businesses and so I think Sports does a great job bringing people together

bringing communities together communities full of people that can really cheer for a common team a common dream a common Mission and um there's a lot of great things ahead and try to wake up Every day with something to do a great purpose and try to go out there and live you know a different dream that I've had in the past but still go out there and be a positive influence on a lot of people sure no Sports is universal language spoken anywhere yeah same for cutting hair it's like no matter where you go hair's not

going to change even though I can't speak the language there hair is not going to change something you can take around the World and just brings culture together yeah you know so and I love the word you said earlier about intention because as I've watched you over the years everything that you've done had intention between it it was all about I'm going here for a specific Mission it's not just blindly walking into trying to hope that something happens so I love the word intention I think it fits great with everything that you're doing now coming

into retire and you Know as you know today is very special to me you know I got my dad here you know which was you know the start of my journey trying to convince him I was going to be able to do something with barbarin and you know I'm only able to be here because of the way that he raised me the things he's taught me and I feel like I'm nothing short of a great man because of him so what was some of your favorite lessons that you've been able to learn from your dad

over your Life amazing you know I I talk about my family I get very emotional you know there's very few people that have seen you through every part of your journey life and really your family your immediate family myself with my parents and my sisters that you know I just grew up in the Bay Area California and I was just such an American kid you know I was just loved going to school and love being around with my friends and we had a neighborhood we didn't have a much of A backyard so we just played

in the street till 6 7:00 at night when you could do that I know you just played on the street and you stop the game when the cars would come you know that's where I grew up just loving being around my friends and and I had the most amazing parents that supported me in every single thing that I did and they they love the the fact that um you know I was into sports we had a very kind of sports Centric family but my dad was my Hero he was someone I looked up to every

single day of my life someone I always tried to be like he is the most caring loving man as a father as a grandparent as a husband and he was a great role model for me and I think through all that support all all the years gave me a great Foundation and it's easy that you know when people are around you and meeting your dad you know he he said that you know he wants to see you do better than him and I Think when you become a parent you realize man you want to see

your kids succeed and when they're doing better than you there's no Greater Joy and feeling in the world and uh my dad felt that way for me he was always there to support me when things didn't go well and believe me they didn't go well for a long time through high school had a lot of challenges through college a lot of challenges early parts of my pro career challenges different parts of my pro Career challenges but you know your parents stick with you every step of the way and I think you learn from them and

they help you grow in ways that you couldn't have grown had they not been there and um I feel like it was the biggest blessing in my life was having a mom and a dad that were there to support me every single step of the way and really helped me build a great foundation for the success that I was going to have but also for the failures That I was going to have cuz life isn't about the successes you know life is about the challenges too and cuz we're all going to go through challenges nothing's

a straight line in life you know there's there's nothing that just goes exactly the way you plan it sometimes there's a lot of adversity along the way and you need people there that are support you when things get rough too and you know my parents have been there like your dad your mom have Been I'm sure every step of their way as well it's unconditional yeah what was it like growing up with a dad that was in the military was he tough on it man you know my dad's like my mom's actually the toughest my

mom's from Russia so she's full Russian immigrant man she is to the bone as tough as it can get my dad's also tough but my dad always had like a softer side to him but if there was anything that we can do ourselves we did it ourselves we would never call for Help we're not hiring anybody like we're going to figure it out with whatever we have so I feel like my dad you know maybe not always having the right tools in the toolbox took what he was given in life and made the best out

of it you know took the cards he was dealt and just went ahead and and did what he could so that was like the biggest thing that I could learn looking at my dad is that I will figure it out like no matter what I have to do you know and for you Like now you're a father right father of three you know two boys one girl man and you're stepping into that that role now being a dad and you know for me I'm young right 24 I ain't got no kids yet but yeah good

take your time take my time with it but what are some of your favorite lessons you've learned now being the position of being dad you know there's nothing more I love than being a dad and seeing the kids um you know find the things they like I love being out There seeing them try to accomplish something and commit their time and attention to it and then go go actually after it and get it done and I think you know my parents gave me a great Foundation a great modeling for how to be a parent too

like your dad has like your mom has um so for me it's not always trying to repeat exactly the way things are I think one thing as I've kind of become a parent over the last 16 years with my Oldest son and then as it kind of transitioned to my daughter who's 11 I think I've gotten a little obviously you get better as a parent I think because you know when you're when you're a young parent you don't really know what you're doing you don't know it's your fir it's your first time yeah you're winging

it trying to figure it out yeah you're trying to wing it so I think when you become a parent you're trying new things for the first time you Don't going through all these things for the first time so you don't exactly know always the right thing to say as you go you get a little bit better at it you get a little more understanding of it you try to just continue to kind of refresh your skills you know as a parent my really am I listening or am I talking am I am I mentoring or

am I disciplining am I you know holding them accountable or am I let them get away with things or do I want them to win the Argument or lose the argument you know sometimes you want your kids to win the argument yeah you know cuz you want them to say okay if you really believe in it you know you can really convince me then [ __ ] yeah I that's kind of where like cuz again me and my dad butting heads about the barberin thing you know it's just different generation and you know we said

it earlier it's unconditional love so I know that my parents never wanted to see me fail it's just there's A there's just a risk there this is just they're trying to push you towards what they think is going to be the best situation so I remember the last thing my dad told me he was like Hey man if you're going to do it just do it make a plan stick to it and do it yeah I was like all right my chance to prove to you man so it's kind of just how they told me

to go about it and and I love what you're saying about them just having to win the argument and really prove that You believe in what you're doing you know I think you always want to there's Les lesson I've always talked to a lot of parents I asked a lot you know what do your parents do for you and what advice would you give parents and you know obviously to be a professional athlete is very difficult there's long odds you know a lot of kids want to be that and the one thing my parents always

did for me was they never they were they were never less Than 100% supportive of what I wanted to do do you feel do they have any expectations on you like when you start hey if you're going to do this you got to go here you know was their expectation on in the beginning I think they never wanted to they never wanted to temper my expectations for myself you know I was always pretty ambitious kid even when I wanted to go to Michigan to play they were like they were all in on even though Michigan

was a one of the Great college football programs and you know I was probably not the highest recruit coming out of of um of high school but it wasn't like they said no like I think we should think about going to another school that may be a little easier for you you know I think the reality is when you do things that are easy in life you don't value them as much when you do things that are difficult and that require you to dig really deep in yourself then you value Them more it's easy to

quit it's easy to try the easier path it's it's easier to try something that's already been done before it's easier to to do something knowing what the ex what the what the end result ultimately be it's harder when you don't know what the end result would be it's harder when you when you face the uphill Challenge and you deal with it and you go through the iers and you face it head on and you you that's where you build confidence in yourself That's where you you build your own self-esteem you know things are given to

you you never have a sense of how difficult it is to actually earn it you know so I think I had a lot of challenging experiences you know going through my young Sports career where things weren't really easy for me you know they were I started in high school I was it was a challenge to to to get to be a starting quarterback and high school and I had to Work really hard to do that and by my third year in high school okay now you could be the starting quarterback we weren't even that good

I went to Michigan and I was a seventh quarterback on the depth chart when I started at Michigan I had to work really hard to even play there so when I I did that I was oh [ __ ] okay if I have a good work ethic and I have a good team kind of attitude team first attitude then the coaches respect that and they all the Players respect that okay if I can be a good team player then my teammates will really understand that I'm there to support them and I'm trying to do my

best for them and all those lessons I learned helped me develop even when I became a professional you most I see a lot of like young pro athletes are given so much through high school and through college CU they're the best athletes and naturally the coaches favor them give them attention tell them how good they Are they don't deal with maybe some adversities in their sporting career and then by the time they start to face them they don't know how to deal with them because a lot of it's come pretty easy in natural form and

I think for me a lot of things were very difficult early on and there was a lot of challenges through high school and college so by the time I got to my professional career with the Patriots whatever challenges there were I felt like oh [ __ ] I've Dealt with this in the past I know how to deal with this I'm just going to work harder I'm going to care more I'm going to put more time and I'm going to show up earlier I'm going to work later I'm going to study more and I'm going

to do things that other people aren't willing to do cuz that's how I had to do it through high school and college and I was lucky to learn those lessons at a young age yeah when the Limelight wasn't on me a lot of kids you know they're not Prepared let's say for for all the attention and they're doing really well and next you know their first bit of adversity comes when they're professional and the and the lights are on and then oh man I don't know how to quite deal with it and then you know

you end up having a really short career because you don't know how to deal with it when things don't go your way yeah so I guess you know looking at your story not having maybe the physical gift of Having the greatest build ever and being the fastest what does it take to be great outside of just physicality so I always felt like in this where Noble really comes into play too is you know for all of us to actualize our true potential there's many components to it and there's a physical component a mental component and

an emotional component got my ferocious guard dog right over here yeah plus you going to get a haircut later big and scary give The same cut your dad got I know so I think there's a physical component a mental component and an emotional component and I think when I was being evaluated to be a professional quarterback the only thing they looked at was the physical component and maybe I wasn't the I was pretty tall I was always tall obviously but I wasn't the biggest build I didn't surprised me I didn't he look shorter on TV

I know everyone always says that then they get Around me like damn you're big you look a little shorter on TV I know I'm around like old linen that are 6' s 6'8 so those are big boys but um you know I didn't naturally I'd say have the biggest build coming out of high school you know and then in college even though I worked at it you know it just wasn't the way that my body would develop I was kind of born with what I was born with and I was going to make the most

of but where did I really exceed expectations Was my ability mentally to understand what I needed to do to be better to learn the game to learn the tactics of the game to learn the disciplines of the game to learn the strategies of the games then emotionally how could I bring a positive team first attitude every single day not self-focused not self serving and I think the biggest problem with a lot of [ __ ] kids these days it's all about them it's all about them their brand their social media and then When it's about

me and then not about us well there's no way to succeed as a team if all you're doing is thinking about how selfish it is for you to get the attention cool to show the world how great you are but the most inspiring thing is how great you can make others that's the point of life is what we could do how do you help other people finish the race not just you but when people are looking for self- glorification and very self-serving Attit udes very selfish attitudes well it's hard to have a team first attitude

if all you do is concern about how you're doing or your stats or your you know the the glory you're getting the gratification you're getting so I feel like the physical mental emotional for all of us is so important we have to evaluate ourselves every day what do we need to do physically to be better what do we need to do mentally to be better emotionally how can I be more stable More consistent how can I be more present how can I be a more inspiration for the people that I'm around every day yeah you

know so that's where I think people miss the boat and they evaluated me coming out of college it was like fluffy chill out fluffy big girl how old is she I don't know she's 8 years old oh man my my boy I got a dog to he's eight Pitbull boxing mix I like it yeah what's the name Russ Russ Russ that's my that's my guy really Where' you get Russ from shelter I I adopted him in fville so he's been with me every step yeah yeah so I hear you talking about just finding the inspiration

mentally to keep going and you're at a very different point of your career now where are you drawing inspiration at now I'm always looking for people that are a little bit different you know I think one thing that Drew me to get to speak to you is I saw some of the things you were doing And I love the way that you're trying to make your mark and the way you're trying to create you know your own way of communicating to people in a positive way and how you're trying to make a difference and um

those are the types of people I'm drawing to I you know people who see 99% of the world sees things one way and I think there's 1% that sees a little bit differently and naturally I always kind of gravitate to those people cuz I Feel like there's still so much for me to learn and there's still so much for me to grow from and yeah I've had some certain experiences playing sports and and that's been great I mean really my joy comes from people my joy comes from the relationships that I have I and I

think my closest relationships the most meaningful ones are the ones where I get the most gratification from that's yeah whether it's my children my parents my sisters my great friends um people that Are with you that through through all these important times in your life and you can really be yourself around now I think for me naturally my guard's always a little bit up when I meet people cuz I'm not quite sure uh you know at first what they're looking for and I think for me to to be around people that I can learn from

that's that's the best part of my life and I've been very fortunate to be around some amazing People that are have taught me grow grow in a lot of ways they taught me to think differently taught me to approach things differently and um you know hopefully you create relationships where you're learning from people and they're learning from you and then together what you can do as teammates and even my Noble family you know like how can we how can we impact the world in this amazing way through our brand through you know this mindset Of

whatever comes your way you're going to figure out how to deal with it and you're not going to make excuses you're not going to be a victim you're not going to always blame other people you know how can you look at yourself every day and say how can I be a little bit better for the people that are counting on me how can I be better for my teammates and whether your teammates not just a metaphor you know your teammates could be your business people could be Your family could be your kids you know how

can I be better for them every day so you know that's what we're trying to accomplish and I guess my thought is you know like as we've seen you just over your career at football you've always been coachable I from my perspective I don't know if you ever got into your own head like oh on the Gres I'm doing this I got these Rings it's like I feel like you had number six and you still coached to number seven and you're staying a Student to life just how do you continue to do that how do

you not let things get to your head and it's like all right I got to sit back and and listen more because in the end I never really gave a [ __ ] about you know people saying you're great is [ __ ] you know they say You're great and then they'll say you suck and then they'll say you're terrible and they say you're you know you're overrated and they'll say you're You know the coolest and they say you're the worst so it's not about what other people think it's really about how you think about

yourself how it's it's you know who you look at in the mirror every day you know saying am I proud of the person that I'm looking at in the mirror am I trying to do the right thing for people am I trying to to be the right person uh you know for myself first you know am I proud of the person that's in the mirror What what changes do I do I need to make Michael Jackson song Man in the Mirror mhm you know that's really what life's about and if you could live up to

the expectation you have for yourself then things are pretty good you know especially if you care about other people and if you care about the people that you're working with and the people that care about you you know I want to deliver for the people that believe in Me I want to care about the people that are you know trying to to make it the way you made it you know to make it the way I made it through hard work through a lot of great support and and I feel like the people that I

look up to still are the people that are lifelong Learners people that are curious knowing that you don't know [ __ ] you know what you what you know is is very limited my I have a guy that I love uh you know he said what you know is very limited and What we what you don't know is Limitless you know so man go in there and listen go in there and try to learn go in there and try to open your ears up and say what can I take from this and apply to my

life so that I can be a little bit better every day for myself and my family and the people that I'm closest with yes I mean so with all the things that you've learned you know cuz it feels like you probably lived a couple of different Lifestyles over your career How has it been just passing that down to your kids and allowing them still to learn through experience but not trying to overdo it with just feeling like you know parents kind of have it figured out from their perspective you know so how are you teaching

that down to your kids and and parents certainly as all parents know we don't have't figured out either you know I think there's this natural thought that you know as a child you the parents adults that's how we see it man We see yall as superheroes this my dad got the right answer to everything he said it was going to go one way it's going that way my mom said it was going that way it's going that way so you know you're getting older and I'm just realizing you guys are just trying to figure it

out same way that we are yeah you know you grow a different relationship as they get older so yeah we're just trying to you know you try to do my dad always tells me Tommy all you Can do is the best you can do with the opportunities that are presented in front of you and I think what it means is just do your best do the very best you could do and look whatever the outcome is [ __ ] the outcome is it's not like you can control the outcome you can't in life you just

can control your attitud ude you can control your effort you can control what you put into it and sometimes you have to be okay with that the process of of self-improvement the Process of trying to win a Super Bowl the process of trying to be a parent is doing the best you could do and you know what sometimes I could play the best game in the world and sometimes you get unlucky bounce and it doesn't go your way I could be totally prepared for the for a game and go out there and just not play

well that's the reality and you got to deal with it and I think where I felt the worst and this didn't happen that much fortunately for me in my sporting Career was I was fully prepared I just didn't have a great game mhm and it still doesn't feel great but it's better than saying you know what I I I [ __ ] off in my preparation I wasn't prepared I wasn't ready and prepared to go out there and do the job I always felt like there's one thing I could control would be my preparation you

know and how I put myself in front of my teammates and how I prepared during the week and if I Could do that then whatever the outcome was not that I was totally okay with it if we lost but it would soften the blow yeah you know even like I look at some of you know the biggest losses you know my in my football career I you know I'm okay with those games you know I know we didn't play the best and I know but you know what I it wasn't because I wasn't trying to

be my best and it wasn't cuz I didn't prepare to be my best even losing you know these big Super Bowl games Which you know everyone's watching The Whole World's watching it was cuz they just played better than we did on that day and it wasn't cuz I was out prepared yeah so how are you taking losses in life and then turning them into a positive experience sometimes you get a loss and it beats you down yeah it's hard to move past them but you've been through tough losses we've all seen it how are you

taking those things and turning them into something positive you Know it's a challenge and and again at different parts of your life you you deal with different things you different parts of your life you're dealing with different adversities and challenges and again like the parents whether it's my age or people older than me you know they don't have it all figured out nobody's life's perfect my friend said in a in a graduation speech my friend Jimmy said you know perfect leaves you know right when you leave high school And you go to college you know

you think life's pretty perfect at that point because you didn't have a lot of responsib now you got a little freedom and life gets challenging you have responsibilities you have things you got to live up to you got things you got to show up for so you know as as I've gotten older I realized that I'm just I count my blessings and I'm I realize how blessed I am for the life I have for the people That are in my life for all the different things that I've been able to experience and and I and

I appreciate the good things and you know sometimes you get dealt things in life that aren't exactly the way you wanted or the way you plann but you know you just got to learn from it and you got to try to you got to really sit back and try to take inventory about understanding okay why didn't that go the way I wanted it to go why didn't That end result finish exactly the way I wanted and how if I am in a situation again like that how what can I do to make it the best

I possibly can and I think that's how I've tried to approach my life as I've gotten older too you know and I'm sure as I go on in life things are going to be challenging with different parts of life business family personal situations you know life is just it's never we're never finished products man I have a guy that I I talk To and he says if you wake up in the morning everything else is manageable you know and and life is manageable if you wake up in the morning if you don't wake up in

the morning then it's over anyway so what's the difference one of the most underrated blessings yeah just getting up getting up and then saying heck all right how can I approach today go look at that man in the mirror and say what do I got to do today to try to make my Life a little bit better for myself and for the people around me yeah so what is it now that you're excited to learn like what are you currently learning you know I'm sure you know how to be a great quarterback we see it

but yeah what is what what is exciting you right now to learn about so I have a lot of you know I would say trying to trying to um there's a lot of different things I mean how long we got here today how much hair are you going to cut not much not much So I uh tell me I got I got a lot of say work things I like doing I there's a lot of sports business I'm interested in I'm going to be a broadcaster for Fox next year and we ready I know ready

and the war was ready I know I love that I love having this challenge to try something different in my life that's going to challenge me in a lot of different ways um I'm involved in a lot of sports businesses um involved in the NFL quite a bit and involved in soccer team a car Racing team a boat racing team women's basketball um pickleball team and I have some other uh businesses involved I love being involved in nobble and again trying to trying to change people's lives through this amazing mentality that has allowed me to

reach my potential again I think it is for everyone it's you know whatever people choose to do in their life how do they approach it and and maximize it that's really what is you don't need To be an athlete you don't need to be a businessman you don't need to be whatever you find that you love to do you know what where is the blessing in my life I found something I love to do and that was to I'm sure a lot like what you're doing now these are days you look forward to you wake

up and you jump out of bed and you're thinking man I get to go do something I love to do I mean that's that's the blessing of life it's to to have these these days where it Doesn't feel like work feels like what you want to where you want to be at any anyway yeah true yeah that's how I that's that's I've had a lot of years like that you know and that's what I want my that's what I want for my kids too I want them to find something they love to do and I

always tell them that I give [ __ ] what you do just make sure you love it so that you're going to work harder if you work harder you're going to be good at it if you're good at it I'm sure you're going to find someone that's going to pay you for it and you know that's rather than slave away at something you don't really don't love doing or you have a backup plan or you have something that you're committed to that maybe you don't love quite as much so I uh you know I love

being around people that are like you that are are down for the hustle that are down to make it happen thank you bro we're going to take a quick break From this episode to thank Noble my name is Vic blend and today I'm shooting deep cut with Tom Brady but I'm also rocking my Noble all days they keep up with me while I'm in the gym getting my workout in but they also keep up with me while I'm doing my work and doing what I love to do so remember show up for yourself so you

can show up for others Noble all day show up all day day so what what have you been seeing your kids pick up from you like how are and how are they Different oh they're all different they're all different they're way better than me I mean my my my oldest son jack is he's an amazing young man straight a uh handles himself so well and groups of people I see him and I'm like God he's 16 I'm like how are you so mature lives in New York City um puts his heart and soul into everything

he does I mean he's just he blows me away with his who he is and um my son Benny is really coming into his own at 14 years old started out You know and and and you know since he's been in school this year in 8th grade I've seen him flourish with his with his friends and seeing him flourish in school with his with his um with his counselors and seeing him kind of develop into this young man Sports he's starting to play sports which has been really fun to watch him and come out there

at night and do a lot of things I would say my dad did with me where my dad would say hey Tommy you know you Want to be a better baseball let's go up and I'll hit you ground balls you know and I think for now I'm like all right Benny come on he wants to go outside and play catch you know and we run routes and he catches the ball and he play tight end this year and um just seeing him grow into the young man that he is and he blows me away with

his heart he's a boy that has the most beautiful heart comes in gives everyone the biggest hug so grateful and appreciative of everyone Um just the most amazing young man then my daughter Vivie who's 11 who's I always tell her she's number one and uh sweetest little girl and she's just left yesterday to to uh to go on a trip with her mom and just gave me a big hug and told me she loved me and that's all you need from a dad right there when your do when your daughter does that so yeah she's

something special so anyway these kids teach me a lot and they've you know when I'm sure your dad would say this to You but it's not as a parent what you can teach your kids is really what they teach you and you know the different things that look at the experiences your dad is seeing and probably learning from you just by you doing something you love to do it's not what you can learn from your parents it's what your parents can learn from you and the things they bring out in you that they didn't even

know they saw and I think that's why they love their children so much cuz you know Parents get to see their children and they see them and they love them so much and they go wow I I never had any idea that life could be like this but my children brought that out of me amazing you to be a dad someday now you got to find a a young beautiful woman that's going to hey man I'm I'm open I'm out here I'm out here man so you know I'm waiting on it man but now I

can't wait to be a dad I honestly think it's going to be the highlight of my Life I could wait a little bit but I can't wait like it it my dad is my hero he's my inspiration so like I can't wait just to get my own chance to do so yeah so I mean how does it feel I mean not only for your kids man but you're in retirement now kind of but you got more time for everybody in your life you know you got sisters you got nieces nephews you're also Uncle Tom I'm

Uncle Vic got no kids I got a couple of beautiful nieces man so just how's the family Environment Ben it's amazing you know because you have you know the we we're on a family chat every day where we share messages and share you know from my all the different things I have a niece who's my oldest niece who's a one of the best college softball players in the country plays for UCLA they they're having a great season but she's just an amazing young woman I have niece and nephews my niece Hannah Maya sister and Jordan

and Zach and Jeremy and then uh Ryan and Jake and then my kids so we have a great tight family group that shares things all the time you know cuz families they're you know family's always there you know it's if you're blessed to be a great family it's provide you so much um grounding so I try to be uh you know the funkle you know the fun Uncle so I try to have a good time with with my nieces and nephews I don't know what they'd say about that but uh probably the best Funcle out

there I know we have a good time you know and I feel like you know again going back to sports a little bit all the amazing experiences that our families have because of sports you know and I don't give a [ __ ] I'm not talking about just as a professional I was when I was a kid man we we' [ __ ] go to softball games with my nieces we'd be down there on the field and I was 10 years old out there at the Ballpark you know eating you know malts and you know

Toaster pizzas you know that was my child who grown up and then after the games we'd win and go out there and follow my sisters around and I mean man from from you of course like we're Patriots fans we grew a Patriots fan so some of my best memories in the world has been watching you light it up on the field with my Dad yeah like no matter what was going on no matter how hard life could have been in that moment we could always look forward a Sunday Seeing Tom Brady play and I'll never

forget when you beat the Falcons you know we were down and a half dad is in the back you know going through it and I'm you know just sitting there I got Patriots everything on hat shoes pants everything and I remember my dad saying like man if they win you know [ __ ] it we'll drive to Boston the next day for the parade 9 10 hours straight wow so I'm like ah damn man that would be cool to go see my grandma and my uncles and You know hey God made it happen and you

came through and and won so it's like the best one of the best memories we ever had was driving the next day to Boston to come see you guys in that ra it was rainy snowy that day so man yeah football brought a lot of great memories to just with my family man yeah you know so it's amazing man of course I did so just that experience you had I had that experience when I was young too cuz I I was a 49er fan yeah and I love the San Francisco 49ers and they were the

team to beat when I was your age yep and and young you know when I was growing up like you were growing up and my my love for football came because of 49ers and Steve Young Joe Montana these guys were my idols you know they were yeah they were the guys I looked up to and everyone they had Ronnie lot and they had Roger Craig and they had Tom wrathman and Dwight Clark and Ken Norton and Dion Sanders and uh it was just so Much fun because when they won I did the same I was

going to the parades too now it wasn't snowing and icy and cold like it was in Boston we did itough but we I was banging my pots and pan on the El Camino and my my mom would take me out of school and we drive up and see the the parade and see all the guys on the floats and what a great tradition that is is but again it just speaks to how do we change communities you know how do you change you know it's a lot of common Interests common goals and I think one

thing that's challenging is there's not a lot of other things that bring people together the way that I wish it would you know Sports does it I think music does it in a way but we got to find other things that bring us all together cuz we're all trying to just live a healthy happy life and find people that can support us and love us and we just serve the needs of other people that's it it's the mission to Life yeah I agree I mean man you've done so much accomplished a lot you know it's

it's impressive to see but why are you still going because I think that if you're not going then you're dying because what I've learned about my body is if I unless I stress my body my body doesn't grow unless I stress my mind my mind doesn't grow unless I stress my emotions my emotions never change or evolve you know unless you stress your imun system It gets doesn't get stronger my goal for my life is to continue to be very active for a long time I love being very active because I've think about my physical

body has been so important to me over my life because it's allowed me to have these cool experiences so I want to stay in really good shape and I want to be able to move when I'm older and I want to you know I've been very fortunate to live a healthy lifestyle too so I try to live as healthy lifestyle as I can and And and express to others the benefits of a healthy lifestyle without being overly preachy too cuz a lot of people don't want to hear that [ __ ] you know so I

don't try to overdo it but if people ask me for advice then I try to give them a little bit what really just worked for me yeah shout out to Alex man my boy alex he's he's what I mean one of the biggest blessings in my life was having Alex coming to my life and he's like my brother that I never had and um Man taught me so much just spoke to him literally as I was walking on the set today he's over in England working on this uh soccer team that we own and we're

a part of and and and again we're trying to help others athletes reach their potential and I want to do that in pro football with um you know a team that I'm going to try to be involved in here um not the Patriots even though I would do anything for the Patriots really I do anything for any of these Athletes I'd do anything anyone that wants to come and ask me for advice I love doing that because you know if I can impart any bits of wisdom on people through things that I've learned in my

life then I I love being able to pass don't be that guy man don't don't Gat keep the knowledge leave it all out there man I try to get you know the hard part for me is people don't want to listen all the time you know it's like I literally try to give them you know as Much information as possible and it's up to those people whether they want to adopt that information or not but you know that's Again part of it again is not becoming attached to whether they do it or not it's just

was I there and available I gave them I gave them the best that I had and they choose to take the information I met a guy earlier today that he said the most amazing thing to me he's he was U didn't have a father growing up he and his brother um Worked four jobs and he found a poster of me when he was 14 and it was his inspiration he said he kept on his wall his entire life and um used me and my story as motivation for him to make his life the way that

he wanted to and he he had very now he's married he's got a 9-year-old he's got a 9-month-old and and got a beautiful wife he said very tight with his mom bought her a house and he's making it you know I think those are the stories to me that I'm Like [ __ ] you think I'm your an inspiration you're an inspiration to me yeah you know and and I I hear stories like that I just makes me want to feel like I want to get up every day and do a little bit better myself

yeah I mean man we've seen you tackle on everything in your life whether it was Sports was competition now it's the business world was there anything that you were procrastinating to face head on hm I'm not a procrastinator so I think In general the answer would be no I feel like I have another good friend and again I gu like he says the fish just don't jump in the boat you know meaning you better go out there and do it yourself you know don't [ __ ] wait around and wait for someone to hand deliver

something go make it happen you know the fish don't just jump in the boat if you want to go catch him go catch him you know throw that line in the water and go do some work and if it Doesn't work that day do it again the the next day so now I think the procrastination that's probably not good for any of us you know I think we want to go out there and do it go out there and make it happen some days some days it gets tough it does some days it get tough

and I think the part of it that Noble mentality is you know [ __ ] your tired body [ __ ] that unmotivated mind and get out there and do it anyway you know you better fight yourself cuz You're not only winning when things are going your way you got to figure out how to win when things aren't going your way you got to figure out when your body's fighting you when your mind's fighting you how do you still you know just say [ __ ] it I'm going to I'm going to beat my mind

today or do you just give into your mind and say I'm tired today I'm lazy I don't want to do it it's too hard no one else is doing it's a weekend it's too late there's already off hours oh Exactly what I want isn't happening right now like okay great you know who that's great for your competition you want that attitude to permeate the people that you're competing against you want them to give in to their mind you want them to say oh it's too hard I can't do it but you want to be the

one that says [ __ ] it I'm going to do it anyway I know I don't feel good today but I'm going to go out there and I'm going to prove to myself That even on days that it doesn't feel right I push myself the only way to gain confidence in yourself is to build something it's not to wait for it to happen hey Vic your life just happened in front of you just show up today and make it happening Tom no you had to do a lot of [ __ ] today to get to

this day that no one really knows except you so that's why you appreciate it because you had to go through a lot of stuff to get to this day now only you know what it Took to get here and that's why you value it so other people from the outside in may say oh Vic you're so lucky you get to do this and you get to be you know you have all these followers you these people that pay attention to you you get to do these cool things well yeah but in your mind you're probably

still the same kid you know with your brother and your other brother and your sister and your dad and your mom you're like no no no you guys don't know Remember where I came from and this is why I value this cuz I have perspective yeah I knew where I came from I knew where I started now I appreciate it where I'm at and that's the beauty of life to continue to appreciate where you're at yeah me and my friend we God this saying we always say when somebody be like oh man this is crazy

and I'm like man it's not crazy I would never use the word crazy to describe my life because crazy isn't supposed to happen Crazy is saying this is not real nothing's crazy when you made every decision that you had to do to be where you're at yeah so I can't look at you like oh man it's crazy you got seven oh now you're doing this oh you got Noble oh you're doing Fox it's crazy but you're sitting there like man I made every sacrifice possible to be here I made the decisions needed to be here

it's like you're looking at like how could it possibly be crazy yeah that's How you feel like you said when you create the story and you go through it and you have created something for yourself you value it a lot differently yeah do you still feel like an underdog like is there still a sixth round 199 pick back there in your mind like do you still feel like you got something to prove maybe not to the world but even to yourself I think for me it is about proven uh that that 199 mentality it's a

good mentality to have I don't think I Feel like I'm the underdog like I used to um I feel like if I was still playing football I'd still feel like I was the underdog yeah um but I think in probably my professional life I don't feel obviously I don't feel like the underdog but that doesn't make me approach things any differently um I still feel like I want to take that approach that uh there's another great saying you know if you're the smartest person in The room you're probably in the wrong room wrong room you

know so I'm trying to surround myself with people that are smarter than me in a lot of areas that are smarter than me physically they know more about their body how to take care of it how to how to nurture their body that mentally that they are more talented and they have better approach to let's say being a businessman entrepreneur and then emotionally how can I continue to grow emotionally you Know I don't want an emot you know to to stunt my myself emotionally where I'm not detached from my feelings or emotions or or certainly

detached uh from other people's emotions you know I want to be connected to the people that I have relationships with I want to help them be emotionally mature be emotionally stable lose that emotional volatility so that you can show up every day with a good attitude how are you navigating those emotions it's a lot It's a lot to take in sometimes life is really heavy and maybe emotional awareness is something that I think this generation is starting to pick up and learn like how did you learn okay mentally there's things I got to work on

what is not going my way how you navigating those emotions a lot of older people that I learned from they just they care less about what other people think as you get older so the younger you can care less About what other people think I think your life could be a little more emotionally less volatile because you don't have to give in to what you know other people may think of you you don't have to give into what these other expectations might be you said get your own expectations and then you you got to be

willing to work toward that expectations you're the one that has to be willing to put the work in so I think it's just a uh naturally it's a It's an evolution but you know when you're young and you're on a schoolyard and you're trying to fit in and you're trying to figure out what the other kids are doing and you don't want to be the not the cool kid and you don't want to be you try to fit in you try to do what other people want you try to not stand out so people make

fun of you you know but then you get to a point where you're like [ __ ] I'm I I want to be a people pleaser I was I Tred to be a People pleaser in college early part of my Crow career and then I realized I couldn't be all things to all people all the time you know and I had to learn some tough lessons through that and create some healthy boundaries and then with those healthy boundaries I said okay this is how I'm going to approach this part of my life not everyone gets

to come inside the ropes with me you know I got to build some ropes for myself and make sure that I have enough Time for myself that I could be centered in certain ways even though sometimes I feel like like I get outside of those boundaries myself and I have to recalibrate too I'm try to be all things to all people and I go okay God that didn't work you know I'm exhausted you know how do I find some peace and quiet in my own home to you know get to a better place where I

can approach the world with you know less volatility yeah so I guess with all that going on and You know for me 2023 was the biggest wakeup call I could have had for myself mentally um start of the Year very ill I got diagnosed with bipolar one disorder very early and I had to learn a lot about my body and just how I would care for myself going forward and you know when you're young and ambitious I'm sprinting to the Finish Line it feels like I need to get it all now and that's kind of

my generation it's like instant gratification I'm trying to get it but Had this idea to just make it and do whatever I had to and it got me got the best of me I completely burned myself out took it all the way down to the to the to the stub and I had to relearn just how I'm going to care for myself what am I going to do for me and I made it a a thing made it a a point to give myself a little bit of time every single day just for me just

to do something that's going to bring me happiness and that self love has been important like What does self L look like for you what are you doing for yourself that's just for you what are the types of things you're doing tell me that's probably more important to me um skateboarding like and that was a passion that I had when I was young and I let it go because I mean originally I'm like man I'm going to run track cuz that's the easiest way to get a scholarship to go to college and what I learned

is that man like you I can't please everybody yeah I'm trying To follow what people are telling me and I'm losing pieces of myself that I feel like were most important things that I knew I was passionate about so I now I just won't sacrifice the things that bring me happiness yeah I Journal also and I always write my emotions down so putting that somewhere matters to me um I've been in therapy I started therapy over a year ago now so that's been awesome and I think there's a stigma around therapy being this thing that

you Only go to when you're really [ __ ] up but it's not the case man successful people go to therapy is a tool in life to navigate things when you feel like you don't know where to put them therapy has been a part um working out you I think you see it I think you see it think you see little your brother's a little jealous I think yeah n yeah he needs to keep working man he'll get there one day you know just be great man but I've been in the gym you know I

have Never been in the gym I weighed 120 my whole life you know very small I didn't really care I didn't really think that you know it's going to take Mind Body Soul to get there you can't lack one or the other Gym's been there skateboarding has been there just for fun Journal has been there to navigate and and put something somewhere you know my therapy's been there to help me kind of push forward and learn as things are happening to me um and then connecting More my family and making memories that have nothing to

do with what I'm actually doing like spending time and making it like all right my birthday's coming up yeah I know I'm sending away a cook out there all right there's something I want to go to in San Diego you know the end of April I'm booking the flight ahead of time because I know me I'm going to go ahead and work through everything I'm not going to give myself that break it's good for you you Got to keep keep that going now as you experience more levels of success there's only been more thrown at

you then it gets harder sometimes to take care of yourself cuz you feel like I can't pass up that opportunity I can't say no to that person I can't man that's my mom I can't say no to my mom oh that's my dad I can't say no to my oh it's my brother I can't say no my oh that's my high school teacher I can't say no to my high school oh it's my best Friend I can't say to my best oh it's my best friend's mom I'm that guy I can't I got to I

feel like I got to but if they really love you they'll understand if you said hey I'm overwhelmed right now and I'm sorry I just can't do it right now then people who really love you they do understand and they said you know what if they really love you they realize the most important is your happiness and where your mood and balance is so the people that love you And care about you always understand yeah you know the people that don't and you got to be weary of them cuz then it's just transactional and then

they get what they want and they leave you hanging yeah and you're like oh man that's not that didn't feel very good I heard a great great quote and they said uh stop making food for people that only want to go plates yeah if they only want to eat at to go plate and they're going to leave The table once it's ready like there not people you want to be cooking for you want to be doing things for transactional relationships is it sucks man yeah you know I mean over your life I mean you've accomplished

so much there's so much that we can see that you're probably proud about but what was something that you did for yourself that you're proud about that not a lot of people may know even with my career like it never felt like I was working so I Was having so much fun when I was playing it looked like man he's even though I know it's pretty intense in a cycle out there there was not one day that I didn't look forward to going to work there was not one day I didn't look forward to getting

in the gym to practice to to work on it it was just a true love of mine was to to find a career so you know I think for me it wasn't about like um you know giving things up or sacrificing or any of that It was for me it's about how do I you know how do I give myself to to my team how do I give my energy and my positivity to them I mean I I feel like I've tried to where do I need help I need to I need to be able

to slow down when I need to slow down my mind is always I think the how do you be ambitious and content you know I think that's the balance that I'm looking to to work at and I think this year I said Okay I want To be a little more mindful this year I've got to get to a place where I don't want to be so ambitious was it easy for I mean it's hard to be proud about yourself like that's a tough thing yeah have you taken moments have you taken moments just to sit

back and be like kind of proud of myself I've done this no I I don't do that no I don't I always I I don't really see that myself I think I always look at others to be kind of my inspiration for that yeah I love that Being around my kids they're very grounding for me it's my greatest joy is seeing them and yeah and being with them um um but you know my career and all that that's that's the thing of the past in my mind I was a gladiator out there now my time

moved on now it's like okay how can I deliver for my next group of teammates you know how can I deliver for my Noble family you know how can I deliver for Fox who who took a chance on Me in my broadcasting job how do how can I get up every day to be the best for them so those are the things I'm working at and again I don't know man you look back and reflect and all that I don't know there may be a time for all that but not at 46 6 years old

I'm I still feel like I'm young I still feel like there's a lot I want to accomplish there's a lot of places I want to see a lot of people I want to meet um a lot of things I want to do and and at the same Time a lot of again surround myself with people that helped me grow in ways that I could have grown had they not come into my life and yeah I'm fortunate to have the great network of people right now that have done that and they're going to continue to allow

me to do that yeah the last question that I really want to ask you before we get to some fun stuff is what advice would you give 16-year-old Tom from Sano I would say don't be so tough on Yourself man don't be so tough on yourself I there's one thing I'm I have this uh I just I get down I get down on myself if I feel like I didn't if I could have should have done better and um you know that's probably is my as of my CH growing up a little bit more over

the years I probably feel like I've been a little less tough on myself but through my 20s through my 30s early part of my 40s what could I could have should have Done better um so just chill out a little bit more you know and and smell the roses while you're going through it but I was so ambitious I wanted okay we'd win okay next day I was in the gym all right how do we do it again next year you know so that part for me was a that's a challenge I need help you're

doing better at it you know slow down a bit man little bit more present lot to be grateful even though you're not where You want to be at certain moments you places you want to get to you're right where God needs you to be and that's a lot to be grateful for like you said we woke up today yeah blessing right there yeah absolutely thank you man so I got some Quick Cuts for you what you these are presented by get joy we're going to take a quick break from this episode to thank one of

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the best way for me to start the day I look forward to it literally every day one thing you would change about the current state of quarterback play I think it's been dumbed down a lot I think it's they're just they're they're taking quarterback position where you Should have been the field General you should have had a real say on the field and contributed to the you know you always had the last swipe at the pencil and I feel like the coaches now are trying to make it more coaching focused and that just run what

I call and get out there and be a robot and you know then ad live if the play breaks down but I love being involved in the game plan I love designing plays I love designing schemes for our team I'd go in there With a list of ideas of all the things I wanted to do and I really got to the nuances of the game and okay it's cover one it's manto man how can I design plays to beat manto man and work with my coaches and work with the great minds that I've been around

to develop a [ __ ] game plan that would kill it every single game and that's those game plans were picassos you know we'd get ready for the game be like they have no [ __ ] chance of stopping us with this Plan so today I feel like the quarterback just shows up and they go what do you want me to do coach and it's we've dumbed the game down and we've we've we it's more Checkers now than it used to be chess wow and for me I think it needs to be much more time

on task I think people need to put more time into it I think coaches need to push themselves more I think players need to push themselves more um so that they can continue to evolve the game the athletes I mean people say oh the athletes are better these I don't know Lawrence Terry was a pretty [ __ ] good athlete yeah you know Barry Sanders was a pretty good athlete Eric Dickerson was a pretty good athlete Steve Young Rand Cunningham those are great athletes I me there's always been great athletes in football I think we

got to get the game mentally better yeah people need to understand exactly why they're doing what they're doing and I've been around A lot of really smart players and you know you got to play it's it's a it's that type of game you got to use your brain to get out there and give yourself an advantage I mean so we've seen the the game change a lot very quick it's almost every single week there's a there's a rule change what are your thoughts on the hip drop tackle being removed and just the physicality of the

game changing yeah it's again thing I don't like about it I feel like we're Trying to protect of people in a physical sport I don't think you go into a boxing match and say okay I think I I want you to beat your opponent but I don't want you to beat him bad don't hit him that hard yeah don't hit them hard just tap them and try to win on points I feel like if you could protect yourself in football then it's your responsibility to protect yourself I don't think it's your opponent's responsibility to protect

you no I'm not Saying if you are an unprotected player like a a someone kicking the ball quarterback in the pocket a receiver catching the ball a a a a linebacker you know who can't see someone to block him from the outside in you need to protect D lineman's knees but you can't say you have the 100% ability to protect yourself but this offensive player can't block you a certain way or you can't be physical there's there's going to be a lot of people that have been in the Hall Of Fame Ray Lewis um Rodney

Harrison some of the greatest players have ever been around great defenses the Steel Curtain uh the purple people eaters Denver's defense the the um what do they call them no fly zone you know all those guys I mean they won Super Bowls and were part of championship teams because their physicality offense is the only way to win games now it used to be offense defense special teams we've created a game now where only the Offense can really make an impact cuz defense every time you make a great defensive play there's a penalty and it advances

the ball 15 yards and they blame the defensive player for hitting an offensive player too hard so I don't like those things I'd like for it to to to to have a closer look at how we've affected the game in a negative way and I think that should be that should be seriously thought about for the future of the game all right top three Rappers I mean I was a Jay-Z fan always so yeah Jay-Z I loved um I love Snoop just cuz he's from California and I love Drake cuz I think he's just everything

he puts out is a hit yeah okay funniest guy you ever had in the locker room oh there's been a lot of those oh man I've been around the most fun guys depends what kind of fun you're looking for um that's right that's right I'd say fun loving like grank you know every day was positive he was just so much fun to be Around Wes Welker always had a positive attitude um funniest like Matt Light man he was so funny uh Mike Vel just the driest wittiest sense of humor so there's a lot more than

that but there's some comedians out there person you would trade places with for a day oh man what would I want to be if I one day if I could trade places let's come back to that one if you give me a minute or two that yeah Childhood celebrity crush oh man Pamela Anderson do you know who that is I think I I know her name I don't think I know what she looks like look her up it was Baywatch oh no I don't I know that name of the I I've never seen a movie

she got to be bad though if you're going to I she got be B she was nice um most you guys know who that is Dad Pamela Anderson don't tell me you don't know pops yes all right good show your son all right most underrated NFL player of all time that's really hard it's a lot of those um most underrated NFL player I'll say underrated teammate Rodney Harrison I mean to me he's one of the greatest football players the League's ever seen yeah and doesn't get the recognition I he should be in the Hall of

Fame he was as good as competitor defensive player Smart tough physical [ __ ] mean out there on the field and I loved it and I love playing with them man awesome yeah player you hated going against the most Ray Lewis yeah just because he was the baddest dude and he was so smart he knew where things were going before he he'd look for any tip on the o line he'd listen anything the quarterback said any formation he was so on top of it yeah um I just loved his I just loved his approach you

know how he how he played The game from a defensive standpoint wide receiver that you wish you could have got to play with Jerry Rice yeah because he was I just loved his production the way he loved the game the way he practiced um I heard stories about him as a and obviously his production what he ended up how how he ended up performing he was incredible next quarterback to win a Super Super Bowl that hasn't won yet I like Josh Allen a lot I think he's I' I pick Josh Josh yeah I like Josh

a lot as a guy as a leader um but you know he's got to get past the Chiefs and that's hard cuz Patrick's incredible in the way he leads that team yeah I'm a Lamar Jackson fan trying to see trying to see Lamar get his man I know if not football what Pro Sport what would I got drafted in baseball but I don't think that I could have been a great baseball player I'd say golf if I couldn't my you want a Green right now I'm not that good although I played a long time I

could be a lot better but I I love I've never played a real game of golf really no never golf is one of those things that's my selfcare like I like to get out there and I'm in nature I'm walking around it's very beautiful it's very calm and it's just you and yourself against that that green it's it's a hard sport there's a lot of little unique challenges maybe we hit the green Together one day let's go man you CH you you cut me up a little bit and now we get to go out there

and all right let's do that let's do that all the golf ball I'm cool with that look we get it you're 100% retired yes let's say one day there's a situation right maybe it's a 49ers maybe you know heading to the playoffs offense is great Patriots could Raiders could be you never know God forbid somebody goes down would you pick up that Phone I'm not opposed to it if they would I don't know if they're going to let me if I become an owner in the NFL team but I don't know if uh I don't

know I'm always going to be in good shape always be able to throw the ball so to come in for a little bit like MJ coming back um I don't know if they let me but I wouldn't be opposed to it all right man mik Dro right there thanks Vic bro thank you man let me get you this how's it look what do you think Come on you look like Tom Brady did you do much to it it feels pretty good I needed that we're going to show you a miror real quick clean this neck

up all right one person is switch for a day yeah that's a hard let me see dead or alive Dead or Alive like somebody you would have loved to live through I'd love to be the president for one day just because I'd love to just really see what the responsibilities are of the president yeah waking up every Day feeling like you have all these jobs to do that' be interesting president will be sick yeah that be be sick all right let me grab this let me see right come right over all right if you don't

like it just be honest with me man I'm I'm I'm a tough guy I like it see all them Grays in there I got come on just wisdom you like it I think you look great Tom already man good work I appreciate it thank you bro this means a lot man and Know just to tell you again bro the memories that you give my family man it's like con for the world man so thank you it means a lot man thanks Vic keep up the great work my man great to meet you you good luck

to man appreciate it man you got a long journey ahead you're going to do a lot of great things keep it up I will man yeah I see you on the green oh let's do it see you on the green [Music] Man what's up I'm spending a great day with Vick got to express a lot of things that came from the heart and hopefully you guys can take some of those things and learn from them from a little bit of wisdom a little bit of advice but most importantly we're all loved out there we're all

blessed and as we said today if we wake up every day everything else is manageable and wish you guys all the best of luck continued success and lots of love take care I just want to say Thank you to Tom for this moment that I'll never forget for the rest of my life growing up watching you play and the memories I was able to make my family already last for a lifetime but this is a moment that I'm always going to be grateful for to everybody else out there the easiest thing for me to say

stay planted and never quit not everybody's going to see it in the beginning but one day everybody is going to see what you've been determined to do Your whole life God has a plan for you stick to it and trust it we'll see y'all in the next episode what was up as as a child wow how much time do we got you know honestly I love him you know obviously you know as a parent you always want to see family move forward so um I'm just blessed so did VI grow up as like a past

fan everybody's going to be a boss in fan in my house who is your favorite player ah come on you put me on the spot Uh Tom Brady what's up Tom here for a haircut what's up Mance to meet you bro what's going on good to meet you too pleasure hey how you doing hey what's up my man my man my hero I'm Tom I I man you know how you doing man can we get a bro Hub absolutely oh what's up Pops it's pre haircut thank you you're welcome great to meet you man