There are NFL players who spend their entire careers trying to reach the Super Bowl and never get there. Tom Brady is not one of those players.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback will make his 10th Super Bowl appearance on Sunday when the Bucs take on the defending-champion Kansas City Chiefs. But while Brady is chasing his seventh ring, that same familiarity with football’s biggest stage wasn’t prevalent around the Tampa Bay locker room.
That was when Brady apparently had to step in and remind one emotional player of the goal at hand.
In an appearance on the All Things Covered podcast with Patrick Peterson and Bryant McFadden, Lavonte David said that Brady told a Bucs player to stop crying after noticing the teammate overcome with emotion for merely reaching a Super Bowl.
Lavonte David says Tom Brady saw one of his teammates crying after they won the NFC Championship Game. Brady went right up to him and said: "What the f*** are you crying for? We're not done yet." 🐐
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David said:
“When I realized that it was real — when I realized all other stuff don’t really matter unless it’s the Super Bowl was like after we won the NFC Championship … I’m geeked up and I guess somebody was crying, and I heard him (Tom Brady), just like, ‘What the (expletive) you crying for? We’re not done yet.'”
David said he didn’t remember exactly who was crying — he named either Chris Godwin or Jaydon Mickens — but he did say that he was sure to wipe away a tear before Brady noticed.
It really is all about the Super Bowl for Brady.
