For a high-performing athlete, the decision of when to call it quits is fraught: Would you rather go out on top, or go out knowing you have nothing left to give?
This is an excerpt from BuzzFeed News' culture newsletter,The middle of winter brings that annual ritual of aging football players contemplating their futures. Around this time last year, Tom Brady announced that he was retiring so that he could spend more time with his. Then, 40 days later, he announced that he’d changed his mind and was, in fact, returning to the field, a decision that apparently contributed to his divorce from Gisele Bündchen in October.
For an athlete who obsessively pursues such heights, the decision of when to call it quits is fraught: Would you rather go out on top, or go out knowing you have nothing left to give? Last season, Brady had the chance to go out as a hero. In the semifinals of the playoffs, he orchestrated a nearly miraculous comeback that fell just short against the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Los Angeles Rams. If he never played another snap after that, he would have left us with an iconic finale fitting for the greatest quarterback of all time.
He did return, and it didn’t go well. His Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a debacle of a season, losing more games than they won, before getting eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in an embarrassing blowout defeat to the Dallas Cowboys. Brady didn’t look horrible but he did look old, stiff, angry, grasping for magic he couldn’t quite conjure.
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