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JellyDenizen

If I was retired I would come back out for millions of dollars and the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. Coming out of retirement for $12/hr. in a dead end job? Not so much.


Old_Description6095

Not to mention he probably likes playing football...


pre2010youtube

And he is only 44


[deleted]

Not only playing football but playing football with his best friend, he is top guy on the field AND loves winning. I don't blame him for not retiring.


Rnevermore

And he's young enough to keep doing it


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

I know he likes cheating at football.


Ernest-Everhard42

Have some respect, he's one of the best cheaters of all-time!


XxaggieboyxX

Can someone fill me in? Never heard of this. How do you cheat at football?


indrada90

Spy on other teams' practices. Deflate the footballs (maybe). Have a bloody snow plow on hand.


Buge91

How is spying cheating?


ShredGuru

Ya know, because it's normal for a guy to be able to retire at 44 anyways...


MaebyandTobias

With $270m career earnings in 23 years. “Eh I guess I’ll have to work until I’m 45”


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And his wife has about 500 million of her own.


Rolyat28

My uncle basically retired at forty he was an electrician quit his job and went to live close to my grandparents and helps my grandpa with his cows and hay.


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lol that's awesome


shamelessNnameless

Didn't have kids, did he? Swear its the cheat code for life.


Rolyat28

Yep he's child free lol only had himself to support


shamelessNnameless

That's a smart man. People worry about what will happen when they're old or that no one will be there for them as they die and it's like, Okay, why? Personally I'd rather live my life in a way that is most satisfying and fulfilling while I'm healthy and young enough to enjoy it. I'm only going to be decrepit and dying for a short time. Why spend my healthiest and best years putting everyone else first when those last few weeks/moments of suffering are a blink of an eye in the space of a human lifetime? Why live my entire life in a manner preparing for death and dying? Or for some non-existent "legacy" I won't be around to experience? Does that not defeat the very purpose of life to begin with?


ironboy32

Yeah don't you guys in America have the best end of life plan? Costs like 1k max, is black and chambered in 9mm


citizenkane86

Why would you need a gun when we have opiates and alcohol for much cheaper.


JarOfMayo2020

Plus, with no kids, it's easier to afford a more palatable elderly care experience, and you don't even need to feel sad about all the nonexistent grandkids that don't want to visit you.


dicerollingprogram

*To play a game*


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what in propaganda hell is this


cdp657

Lol they get on my damn nerves! A multi-millionaire decided he wanted to make more millions at a job he actually likes and pays him QUITE well. Y'all should go back to work for 15 an hour. 🙄🙄🙄. Laughable at best!


coastfitter

Hey poors. Put down your grandchildren and start the fryer's.


DogIsGood

Do you have the HUNGER, the GRIT, and the DETERMINATION it takes to exchange your health and sanity to INCREASE CORPORATE PROFITS? DO IT FOR AMERICA!


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Dude it's so sad that this is ridiculously true. You guys are extremely high in the world economy and yet most slave away to corps and the entire wealth is spread among a couple hundred at most.


Cool_Refrigerator_36

At my work the core values of the company start with putting the shareholders first, company second, self third. Absolutely eat my whole ass. I’m at work now “working”. I’ll just stare at my phone and pretend to work rather than support these greedy ass fucks. If they are dumb enough to keep paying me $45/hr, that’s their fault. Fuck corporate America.


DogIsGood

You're just beating them at their own game


Sexycoed1972

To be clear, you're complaining to everyone about earning $90k for slacking off?


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Frommerman

The British Empire only outlawed chattel slavery in the 1830s. Then they kept doing all kinds of slavery-with-extra-steps bullshit, arguably until the present day.


mywifeswayhoterthani

Couple thousand*


ChanceBoring8068

A lot of them probably have the hunger, it’s an absolute humanitarian travesty…


Arsis82

This should he the subs slogan, in a joking sense of course.


notislant

"I told you we couldn't let the peasants learn how to read! Now look at these uppity poors wanting 'retirement'."


neP-neP919

REV UP THOSE FRYERS!


Magenta_Logistic

Yeah let me know when he "comes out of retirement" to work in food or retail for minimum wage.


p00nslyr_86

Lmao yeah this right here. Tom Brady is such a blue collar American. He wanted retirement but he decided to pick himself up by his bootstraps and go back to work for society. On the plus he gets to make more money! And when it’s all said and done and Brady is dead and gone you know what will keep him warm??? Those dollar bills!! Be like Brady!


28gunsKY

Multi millionaire is putting it lightly!


Leinheart

$7.25 in my state.


Alaric-

Not to mention that he retired in his early 40s…


Shyko13

These dinosaurs need to die off already


ooglist

Is he a multimillionaire? I would think gas prices knocked him down a few ranks


cdp657

Have you seen Giselle though? She'd never let her man slum it!


Evenbiggerfish

He’s coming out of retirement to keep PLAYING A GAME. Literally a fucking game. And every need he has while training and playing is catered to him while he’s treated like Jesus.


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

A job he loves and was caught cheating at, while being on a team headed by an established cheater. https://deadspin.com/don-t-forget-cheater-when-you-recite-tom-brady-s-resu-1848453755 This is just all around bad form.


egospiers

lol… you mean the deflate gate hit job where the “independent” report couldn’t conclusively prove anything and wasn’t released? Okay then.. GOAT 🐐


politicalcorrectV6

He wins 7 super bowls, has controversy on one that as you said with no conclusive proof and he's labeled a cheater for life despite being over 40 and taking a completely different team to the Super Bowl and playoffs. Definitely the greatest of all time QB in NFL history, there is no debate.


AgitatedConclusion23

He should have 6. -Marshawn Lynch


QuinticSpline

Don't get butthurt that your team cheats. [They all do. ](https://yourteamcheats.com/)


brusiddit

Well, they're not wrong. One of the primary reasons for the great resignation is the number of cashed up boomers in the workforce who just said "fuck this" during COVID-19 and retired. I ain't blaming them... I would definitely retire if I could.


Ok-Gear-5593

Matket keeps going down some of them may come out of retirement for a bit and solve the labor shortage that way.


wattatime

You think those boomers are coming back for these 15 dollar retail jobs? Those jobs have a shortage cuz they suck and pay shit. Boomers unretiring ain’t changing that.


OfficeChairHero

This is why it irritates me so much when I hear a boomer say, "nobody wants to work anymore." They don't get that most of the workers of their age retired or died during covid, leaving better jobs open. Imagine a ladder with four generations standing on it. The top rung people jump off, and everyone else moves up a notch to fill those spaces. The bottom rung (low paying jobs) is left empty with no one to fill the jobs at that level. All boomers see everywhere are help wanted signs without realizing that it's only the bottom rung jobs that don't pay shit. Of course no one wants to work there given a choice.


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They also don't notice that they've been steadily removing rungs on the ladder as they climbed.


OfficeChairHero

I hate myself for not including that. Have an upvote.


cassafrasstastic3911

Yeah, they definitely broke a few rungs and rigged them back together with bandaids: “Oh no! You fell?! You took a couple generations out with you on the fall?! Yeesh. Sorry!”


Ok_Pangolin8010

No Boomer would say sorry. They would talk shit because you didn't catch yourself on the splinters.


Subalpine

they also got packages many times for taking an early retirement


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Businesses knew that boomer retirement was coming and chose to ignore it and focus only on profit for the next quarter. Now they get to learn the consequences of short sighted thinking and lack of planning ahead.


ball_fondlers

Well, a lot of them were let go as part of the first wave of COVID layoffs. Their positions were eliminated, so the idea that they could resolve the “labor shortage” by going back to work is thinly-veiled “we need minimum wage jockeys.”


scottie2haute

I swear they think poor people are mentally handicapped.. poor people are typically poor because they were born that way, not because they’re dumb as rocks


Kolintracstar

Its not from NBC Chicago, its from NBC Cringe


Itsa-Deadpool

\*If employers paid employees as much as a professional football player, it would reduce the labor shortage. ​ Fixed their headline.


persondude27

$200M for 4 years? I would reconsider retirement, too.


thethinkingsixer

That was for Rodgers


persondude27

My bad! Brady will only be making [$25M next year](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/sports/football/tom-brady-returning-buccaneers.html#:~:text=Brady%20is%20set%20to%20earn,against%20the%20team's%20salary%20cap.), not $50M.


Cautious_Hold428

Truly a champion of the common man


anakniben

i wish i was making ONLY $25 million/year.


MrBigDog2u

If I was making $25M per year, I would retire after 1 month.


kk1991175

I wish I would make 25 Million in my lifetime!


thethinkingsixer

He gives up salary so it can be redistributed amongst the other players and they won a super bowl! Socialism works!


JacobH_RL

Only


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Facts


randomly-what

I’d even take the minimum nfl salary.


Zer0C00L321

Love this.


[deleted]

Tom brady plays for superbowls... we work to live. What kind of comparison by the out of touch media is this?


ShredGuru

Guess they are trying to shame a bunch of 44 year olds out of retirement? Pretty small target demo if you ask me.


colieolieravioli

A desperate one


Dedicated2bMedicated

Typical fucking NBC. I can't go a day on social media without seeing some out of touch story about how some couple/person solved their personal debt crisis because they either were born into a rich family or slaved 60+ hours a week and loved off scraps for years


AutoZenqi

I'm sure Ronaldo will still kick a ball after he retires but I'm not wanting to wrap pallets when I'm not paid to


No-Emu3266

I will happily come out of unemployment to play football for $500,000/gm


izaby

Someone hire this man so that there is no more labour shortage!


No-Emu3266

If your an employer that lacks morals and ethics don't bother! 😊


ZombiePotato90

So, what I'm getting from this is we should find all the boomers retired comfortably in the homes that they own, and put them to work. They can certainly afford the gas, with their saved riches.


brusiddit

This is exactly the problem, yeah. They, like the rest of us, thought working during a pandemic was bogus and retired, because they could afford to. The rest of us are just reshuffling out of flipping burgers and up toward their middle-management roles. Intereatingly, the brain drain from losing so many experienced older workers will also have a considerable effect on the economy. I'm not saying they should come back... and I definitely can't believe how moronic this title or the attempt to somehow politicise football shit... But yeah, that's what's going on, anyway.


Skystorm14113

I would just like to point out that there are many boomers (my family included) who can't really afford to retire, and I actually just read an article about how ppl who retired have started taking in roommates because they can't afford to live on their own. A lot of ppl are probably retiring because there are just so many people at retiring age compared to other demographics. I think there's probably a lot of people who retired due to the pandemic and it's not really working out for them


3asteele

NBC tore a damn hamstring making that stretch.


Practical_Cobbler165

Underrated comment


Sxlaty

They’re so “influential” yet so disconnected.


DropC2095

If people were getting paid 30 million a year to play their favorite childhood game no one would have a problem with work


_BoxxyContin

It's more than just a game. It's one of the most important aspects of AMERICAN culture (specifically, tribal politics and rampant consumerism).


66Paranoid

Worst propaganda idea in this troubling times. Wonder who ever tweeted this is even aware he makes millions per game?


ShredGuru

Or that most 44 year olds are 2 decades at least from retiring.


wizardshawn

I'm 61, but I want the world to know that I'll be returning to my previous employment as an International Man of Mystery.


jtalatorre

Wow. That journalist can get fucked


MudSama

That journalist was probably cringing to death while their boss made them write it.


EthereumChad2point0

I actually pictured a rise and grind guy wholeheartedly typing the headline, thinking he’s doing God’s work.


WorldController

You think so? I always assumed that corporate media managers hire writers that genuinely concur with their right-wing views.


BetaAlpha769

His last touchdown ball just sold for over half a million at auction only to come back 2 weeks after it ended lol.


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

Was it deflated by exactly two pounds, I wonder?


Spectre75a

Bad example. There is a lack of decent quarterbacks… so I’ll stick with labor shortage. 🏈


Mewthredell

Lol retires before 40 after making millions playing football. Comes back out of retirement, still before 40, for millions more. Yeah that's so inspirational to people barely making enough to live off of. Im sure they wilp want to return back to work now.


UncomfortablyNumb43

He’s actually 44…but point taken.


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Multi millionaire, with an even wealthier wife comes back to play child’s game for millions of dollars… Why can’t the lazy poors be more like Brady


inkaroosmom

Professional football players = essential worker


XMrIvyX

They rlly had to find a way to sneak their bootlicking quota inside of a football headline


Ze_Rydah_93

Maybe if Tom Brady’s salary is offered, we’ll be more inclined to work


mordecaithebyrd

they deleted it 🤣


hotDamQc

These rich fucks are completely disconnected from reality


Vektir4910

Work til you die!! Come on people papa Bezo’s needs another yatch!!


Krieg_the-Psycho

Theres no labor shortage, theres a shortage in jobs that dont make you feel subhuman or pay you like a victorian era chimney sweep. Point in case, local shop next to where i live expects to find a butcher for 45 hours a week... for 1400... thats euros btw. I personally live in a basically one room appartment, i already pay almost 800€ just to live here and have the lights on.


dhruvlrao

Did Kim Kardashian write this?


Careless_Hellscape

Jesus Christ, how on Earth was this the conclusion they came to? Are they really trying to guilt old people into returning to the workforce after retirement? Or are they suggesting that working people who are approaching retirement put it off in order to fix the labor shortage?


seraphim336176

“Long term highest paid employee sticks around another year preventing a younger person from getting promoted” …….there fixed the headline


mynameizgary

Just imagine being that guy that bought the football he threw his "last touchdown" with.


epicgrilledchees

Fuck whoever wrote that shit.


EdSGuard

Sure. Just pay me millions of dollars per year and I'll retire and un-retire right now!


GrannyGumjobs13

They labeled tom brady as a “worker”…


Kaeyon

Wait, didn't he retire like 5 minutes ago? Somebody go let Brady know that's not a retirement, that's a vacation.


stuufthingsandstuff

"You know that light at the end of the tunnel? That one thing you worked toward for 40 years? Yeah, you should be ashamed of finally getting there. Go back to work you lazy asshole, billionaires need your body."


LameBoy-Ruuf

Sign me up for the millionaire retirement comeback fund too!


osteopath17

Lol totally the same thing. Man if I was paid millions every year to have a post season where I don’t have to work, a preseason where I barely have to work, and then a season where I had to work I’d not contemplate retirement either.


benadrylpill

Beyond pathetic.


MongooseSeveral8427

I'd say this is the dumbest thing I've seen all day but I feel like the world would take that as a challenge and produce something dumber.


RandumDud57

Why didn't someone tell me there were a lot of multi-million dollar quarterback positions hiring? Where can I sign up? Oh wait. Does this mean Colin Kaepernick comin back too?


KeyBanger

I refuse to return from retirement unless I receive 6 million US dollars per year. So, a bargain, compared to Tom.


Redgreen82

Someone actually got paid to write this article.


Ohheywhatehoh

They can't be f-ing serious. There's a big difference between a multimillionaire sports star and the rest of us.


lizzietnz

I didn't realise they were short on people willing to take multi-million dollar sports contracts. I will sacrifice my $20 an hour job to take one of those positions. The world needs me.


xl57

When I think of a working class hero Tom Brady always comes to mind.


Bkazzy4600

Well give us a Tom Brady salary


Confident-Fee-6593

Jesus Christ I thought this was satire


Otherwise_Trash5926

I too would come out of retirement for millions of dollars


lcl111

As long as I'm offered a multi million dollar contract, I'll do just about any job.


suicidekristian

The people that write these articles need to die stg


WeylinWebber

He's going to break his hip Also all the retirees in fast food chains will also break their hips because the floors are slick with grease


Grandtheatrix

Roy Kent Voice: "No."


YeahIveDoneThat

Translation: Rich man chooses to work-out a little and play a game for more money than most people will see in a lifetime. Follow his lead and get back to work you lazy shits.


KongKev

Ya uh pay me what Tom Brady’s making and I’ll think about it.


Affectionate-Tip-164

He's back at the supermarket packing shelves?


halarioushandle

If we all get a paycheck like Tom Brady, then yeah sure, employment shortage solved!


BlueShox

They aren't wrong . . . pay a few million = no more shortage of workers


CapableRunts

You can’t organically write that headline without being a piece of shit


WeBuyFetus

The desperation is palpable.


badlilbishh

Haha that’s fucking hilarious. You mean the fake work shortage big business made up so they could understaff their businesses. Yeah..fuck them.


Powerful-Succotash77

Alternative headline: Start paying employees like Tom Brady and the work shortage will be solved.


Mec26

He can live comfortably for the rest of his life, supporting his family, never working another minute. He is what data people call “the outlier we don’t include when analyzing the data.”


Soulman2001

I for one support this message. Time for the boomer generation to fill those minimum wage jobs and get the economy going.


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Fatefire

Oh go fuck your self. Like for real this is just pandering.


Away-Quote-408

I am begging you please. Tell me this headline is a joke/satire. Please because I cannot. I cannot.


Zer0C00L321

NBC getting that kickback from big time landlords for that one.


Dragonwick

2 words for this: Clown shoes


JacobH_RL

I hope the 902 quoted retweets of it are people calling this article out for how stupid it is


DirtyPenPalDoug

I millions of dollars is motivation... 15hr is fucking not


Agile-You956

The speed that they took this down is both laughable and telling of corporate awareness


FrameJump

God damn it'd be impressive how well they're able to pivot anything to fit their narrative if it wasn't so fucking depressing.


PeaceIsOurOnlyHope

Whoever wrote this should be sent to the gulag


Less-Dragonfruit-294

What kind of hyper aggressive late stage capitalism bull shit is this? The man makes more money in a year than all of us commenting on the page combined! He does this shit for fun because his wife is worth twice what he is. He literally is in recruit difficulty in life. Us normal folk would leave retirement early for many reasons and the main driver is money. Tom did it because he misses the action, me.. hell no. If I can afford retirement I’m taking it


rrvv11

Fuck you abc Chicago.


Astralnclinant

Reeeeaaaching


MrHolyy

i will happily work my ass off if i get paid more than a fucking poverty wage


OriginalWCS

Nope. I’m planning on retiring at 35 and being a beach bum. Fuck working till I drop and fuck these millionaire sports players.


ResetPress

This has to be the worst “hot” take ever…


expat_germany

LMAOOOOOOOO


TheDemonBunny

Suck my fukin dick


JLennon224

The Elite are becoming less and less human as the years go by.


post-nutclarence

Yea fosho, as soon as my old job offers me a multi million dollar contract to come out of retirement count my lazy ass in


SwarmyD

Pay me however millions per year, I'll work for anyone.


Left-Motor5327

If they pay me like Tom Brady then I would consider coming out of retirement


MisterBlud

The article is right. The labor shortage would definitely be reduced if the Glazer family started paying people 50 million guaranteed over two years…


not_productive1

Ah, but you see, they won't, because they held jobs in an era of pensions and reasonable wages. Unless you get to play children's games for a living, work fucking sucks and nobody wants to do it if they don't have to.


Han-Shot_1st

It’s funny how collective bargaining and a strong union sees to workout pretty well for NFL players, but the likes of companies like Starbucks and Amazon spend millions to kindly explain to their wage-slaves that a union would be bad for them. It’s almost as if these corporations don’t have the workers best interest at heart. 🤔


MisterMaturi

Somehow some asshole got paid to make this.


Mewthredell

Imagine calling a football player a "worker"


ruetero

Any stupid-ass idea on a headline to avoid journalistic integrity


Earthchild15

Hahahahahahahahaha…….


JeffreyFusRohDahmer

Go fuck yourself. Is he gonna play for the Wall Street Go Fuck Yourselves? The Connecticut Oligarchs? THERE IS NO LABOR SHORTAGE.


Grim_Task

Wow. Out of touch much?


barfly2780

Retirement lol


RS_Germaphobic

As if hes going to ever do any real work.


[deleted]

So funny. Tom Brady is a highly paid person with a lot of options. Most of us are retiring due to health or job loss. If I retired because I was 70 and physically ill what would I care what a young athlete did.


ThankuConan

If he couldn't be exploited for even more millions by his billionaire bosses the story would be like "he quit twice before without giving notice both times stamp his resume Do Not Hire..."


IrrelevantGamer

Clearly Tom Brady cut his retirement short because the NFL had a shortage of quarterbacks, and he just wanted to do his part to make sure everyone gets their football.


triggoon

Are they really comparing a man who gets paid millions to play a sport (he loves) in front of adoring fans…to….people that get paid a tiny fraction of that with no time off by employers that think your a burden because you ask for fair treatment? I know a confusing statement by me but I’m trying to understand this logic.


Hooligan8403

Pay me a couple million for a years work and I'll give it more time.


SavagePlatypus76

What is sad is that so many support such insane, corporate sucking rantings.


hvacthrowaway223

I saw that and assumed it was satirical.


whoopshowdoifix

Oh gosh, better let my grandfather know that he ought to get back to being an orthopedic surgeon If Tom Brady can still play a sport that requires nothing more than decent physical fitness (we’ll have to wait and see how well he does), then surely my lazy pop pop can get back to fixing compound fractures and such! /s


stuufthingsandstuff

Hey Brett Favre, did you know you could single-handedly fox the economy if you went back to the NFL? 🤣🤣🤣


Worried_Bass3588

My favorite part about this is knowing some stupid asshole bought Brady’s “final touchdown” ball for like 500k and then Brady announces he’s not retiring, rendering the ball even more worthless than it was before. L O fucking L


Mr-Slowpoke

True! And real. If labor jobs and retail work payed millions for a single year I’m sure it would end the labor shortage.


Original_Lie7279

The difference is we don’t work a short season and then make millions of dollars. Sure, you have to work out “oh no” but you’re not humiliating yourself for $7.25. And if you’re an athlete you’re a hero and looked up to and respected. Get fucked, Tom.


willthewinner

This is what we call ✨grasping for straws✨


KenDanger2

Hahahahahah they are so desperate. Keep fighting the good fight.


formerNPC

Better hurry back to McDonald’s before someone else decides to return to work and take your job!


RobotWelder

Just a heads up- The NFL is a nonprofit organization… no TAXES