On Nov. 15, the retired NFL fable brought John "Jack" Edward Thomas, 17, to the New York Knicks' crippled against the Brooklyn Nets during the 2nd yearly Emirates NBA Cup tourney successful Madison Square Garden successful New York City.
Tom shared a selfie of himself with his son, who helium shares with ex Bridget Moynahan. He captioned the pic, which helium posted connected his Instagram Stories, "The luckiest Dad successful the world," adding 3 reddish bosom emojis.
The 47-year-old was shown connected the jumbotron during the event, during which helium autographed a football, threw it into the crowd, and past tossed another.
"I person a lad who's 6-foot-5 and wants to play basketball," the seven-time Super Bowl champion said astatine the Fortune Global Forum successful New York City Nov. 12. "Unfortunately, helium jumps arsenic precocious arsenic I do, but I archer him, 'Dude, you’re gonna beryllium a stud.'"
The erstwhile New England Patriots quarterback, who is 6 feet, 4 inches tall, added erstwhile Jack hits his maturation spurt, he'll beryllium jumping higher and dunking.
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"Whether helium does oregon not, who cares?" helium added. "But I privation him to cognize that his dad's got his back."
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Tom said he'll beryllium determination to enactment each his kids erstwhile it comes to their ain challenges and aspirations, conscionable similar his ain parents Galynn Brady and Thomas Brady did.
"When I was that agelong changeable arsenic a kid, who was the backup backmost connected a freshman team," Tom recalled, "they ne'er said, ‘Man, don't bash that. It's gonna beryllium excessively hard. Let's bash thing different. Let's deliberation astir different backup plan.'"
The erstwhile Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost continued, "They kinda said, ‘You cognize what? Go for it. Whatever you wanna be, spell for it.'"
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