Tom Brady Wants to Balance Football, Fatherhood
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Three weeks into fatherhood and two weeks into football season, Tom Brady has a personal problem to tackle: balancing his schedule between playing with the New England Patriots and seeing his infant son, who is home in Los Angeles with his mom, Bridget Moynahan.
“I kind of cuddled him like a football,” the 6′4″ triple Super-Bowl-winning quarterback, 30, tells the new issue of Sports Illustrated about John Edward Thomas Moynahan, who was born Aug. 22.
“I’d love to be out there all the time, year-round, but it’s hard to make that a reality,” the Boston-based Brady says about L.A., where the baby’s mom (and Brady’s ex-girlfriend) lives and works.
“I live here,” explains the athlete. “But I’ll start lobbying for off days throughout the year.”
And while SI columnist Rick Reilly harps on Brady’s hunky good looks that make him such a babe magnet (who just happens to be dating the $33-million-a-year Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen), the quarterback does confess to the magazine, “I was the little sports nerd in high school who hardly had a girlfriend!”
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He was generously given a week off to bond with the new baby but only stayed one day - then went back to his enabling supermodel girlfriend and her doggie. He spends more time with her dog and carrying it around than his own son. When he had more time to go back and be with the baby, he again chose the girlfriend and NY. He also TOTALLY ignored the mother-to-be who was carrying his son for nine months. Didn’t help with anything to do with his son’s arrival or was never at any prenatal visits. I think this statement is just trying to revamp his image - if he has to choose between the vamp or his son - the vamp will win!
I understand the challenge of distance, but when I look at my own child’s face, it’s hard for me to fathom not being here every single day. I wouldn’t lobby for time off to see the child during the season – I would demand it.