Seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady agreed to buy a piece of the Raiders in May 2023, but it took until October 2024 for the NFL to approve his purchase. At some point, the longtime Patriot and short-term Buccaneer asked the league about playing quarterback for the Raiders while owning part of the franchise. The league shot it down.
“I actually have inquired, and they don’t like that idea very much,” Brady revealed to CNBC Sport this week. “We explored a lot of different things, and I’m very happily retired. Let me just say that, too.”
An NFL spokesperson confirmed to CNBC it does not allow such an arrangement, saying that Brady would have had to divest his 5% ownership stake before coming out of retirement.
“In addition, there would be salary cap issues involving a player/owner,” the spokesperson added.
The NFL put this policy in place in 2023, a year after it levied punishment against the Dolphins and owner Stephen Ross for tampering with Brady. The league found that the Dolphins engaged in “impermissible communications” with Brady late in his 20-year Patriots run and during his three-season stint in Tampa Bay. Ross wanted to bring Brady aboard as a player/part-owner, but former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores blew the whistle in a 2022 racial discrimination lawsuit that is still ongoing.
Six months after Flores filed his suit against the NFL, the Dolphins, the Giants and the Broncos, the league suspended and fined Ross and Dolphins vice chairman/TB12 board member Bruce Beal. It also docked the Dolphins a first-round pick in 2023 and a third-rounder in ’24.
Brady, who came out of retirement once during his illustrious career, last played in the NFL in 2022. The soon-to-be 49-year-old participated in last weekend’s Fanatics Flag Football Classic, but he told CNBC that doing so “reconfirmed to me that I’m very happy in my retirement.” Although he is done as a player, Brady will continue to serve a key role with the Raiders and work as Fox’s lead color commentator.
Player/Owner/Broadcaster is the better title.
Just give it up man. Enough already. Just go away.
My word, what a psychopath
The word you’re looking for is megalomaniac
Potato. Potahto
The guy has had work done, guess that’s helped him stay busy post-playing days
Flores went from a linebackers coach to a HC in Miami at 38. Seems like the opposite of discrimination.
He was the defensive coordinator in all but name for the Pats in his final season when they won the Super Bowl. He didn’t just jump from LB coach to HC as you’re implying.
Mark Cuban is that you?
Letting active players have ownership stakes is a change owners would fight extremely hard.
“Announcer.”
“What?”
“Player-Owner-Announcer.”
Awwww poor Brady bear awwww
Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft battling it out in the trenches would actually be pretty entertaining for 5 seconds… until they both suffered a heart attack 🙂
…at the strip club
This feels like fake news. It’s difficult to believe the NFL said ‘no’ to Brady about anything.
This guy NEEDS attention daily. Go away already
Who does he think he is? Rodgers?
Brady and Rodgers should just ride off into the sunset.
Just wondering why the league has no problem with Brady being a part owner and broadcaster with the league where as a broadcaster he can interview and get inside info on other teams? Possibly using that info for the Raiders.
But the league has a problem with Troy Aikman being a consultant for the Dolphins in their search for a head coach? Seems like a double standard, doesn’t it?
Hypocrisy and double standards are the NFL norm. Goodell screams that gambling is a threat to the integrity of the game while having partnerships with Fan Duel, Draft Kings and ESPN… which all have betting platforms.
When did this skeleton face look become a thing with celebrities? It’s disgusting.
Ozempic, but I don’t think Brady takes it. Probably just good old fashioned plastic surgery, unless someone can correct me.