Tom Brady might be in the news because he is or is not at odds with other members of the New England Patriots dynasty, but one thing that is certain is that you’ll see a lot more of him on Facebook very soon.
Brady let documentary filmmaker Gotham Chopra get an in-depth look at his life, the result of which is ‘Tom vs. Time.’ The show focuses on Brady’s race against time, which is to say the ability to play quarterback well into your 40s. It’s clearly a passion of his, as the 40-year-old has reportedly said he’d like to play into his mid-40s, and thus far he’s performed pretty well as an athlete in his fourth decade on the planet.
Gotham, Deepak Chopra’s son, created the six-part series that will air on Facebook’s Watch video platform. Here’s the trailer, while the rest of the series is set to come out later this month.
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Mark Leibovich of the New York Times got an early look at the rest of the series, and it certainly seems to have some interesting moments in it. Here’s a scene where Brady relives his failures in the Super Bowl against the New York Giants, apparently again and again.
One of the more fascinating scenes involves Brady’s staring like a zombie at a computer screen, intense and serene. It is as if he is neutrally linked to the game film he is watching.
“I could literally watch football all day,” Brady says. “I could go four or five hours without getting up from this chair.” He begins watching plays from what might be the most difficult loss of his career, the Giants’ victory over the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2008, New England’s only loss that season.
“You’re becoming a failure in front of everybody else,” Brady says, using an odd second-person construction while reliving the dormant nightmare in real time. “It’s a talent show you did when you were a kid. And you’re a failure.”
No athlete has so publicly fought against the concept of aging quite like Brady, so it will be fascinating to see what the series looks like in full. But it sounds like there’s a lot there if you’re looking for Brady schadenfreude just as much as you’re looking for insight into his life.
