Tom Brady’s son has a new football icon to look up to — Gronk!
On Monday’s SiriusXM podcast season opener Let’s go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim GrayBrady, 46, opened up about his retirement, revealing he coped by playing football with his younger son Benjamin, 13.
“I’ll always love throwing that ball,” Brady began. “My son is going to play football this year, Benny, so I was throwing him the ball in the yard.”
“And he wants to be tough like Gronk [Rob Gronkowski], and he will be a little beast. He is an amazing kid and has many talents. He’s a really talented musician and artist.”
“And then this year he told me: ‘Dad, I play football’. And I said, ‘What do you want to play?’ And he said, ‘Tight end. I want to be like Gronk!'” the former NFL player said.
“So I actually texted Gronk and I said, ‘Yo, my boy wants to be like you!’ And he loved it,” Brady added.
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Tom Brady enjoys a beach vacation with all three of his kids — check out the cute photos!
Brady shares Benjamin and daVivian, 10, with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen, 43, and son Jack, 16, with ex Bridget Moynahan, 52.
This summer, the Super Bowl champion shared several vacation photos with his three children. On a trip to the beach, Brady posted a picture of his sons Jack and Benjamin as they walked side-by-side down the boardwalk toward the beach.
The proud father simply captioned the photo, “❤️️❤️️.”
In another photo from the same trip, Brady’s daughter Vivian is petting a horse while standing in a barn. Similar to the first photo, the footballer captioned the picture with a red heart emoji.
A few weeks before that, the proud dad shared photos and videos of his kids jumping into the river. In one video, Jack jumped into the water with a friend while Benjamin watched from the dock. Vivian quickly followed her older brother into the water.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE earlier this summer, Brady opened up about how his kids love listening to music. “Although I would definitely say I’m not into music at all, my kids are, which I love,” he said. “I sure love all the different arts, I’m just not good at many.”
“It’s interesting, my son plays by ear too. He doesn’t like looking at notes, so he hears something and tries to play it,” shared Brady. “He’s very talented. It’s really fun for me to see.”
“And I think so much of what these kids are doing is bringing out parts of us that we don’t even know. You think, ‘God, what are we here to teach our kids in the end? What are they here to teach us?’ And bring out parts of us that we just haven’t been exposed to,” he continued. “So when I see them exposed to those things, I enjoy it more.”
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