Tom Brady’s Son Wants Him to DM The Rock About 'Jumanji 2'
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In preparation for Super Bowl LV, Tom Brady got to do something he’d never done before: stay home until game day. After his trade to the Buccaneers, Brady moved with his family—his three children, Jack, Benny, and Vivian, and his wife, Gisele Bündchen—to Tampa, Florida. This year, Raymond James Stadium, the Buccaneers’s home, will play host to the Super Bowl.
Brady’s last Super Bowl appearance was a win against the LA Rams in 2018. Though, for his kids, maybe the more memorable Super Bowl was Brady’s loss just a year before.
After the Eagles bested the Patriots that year in Super Bowl LII, Brady’s three children, Jack, Benny, and Vivian, were waiting for him in the locker room, all crying.
Brady was obviously upset too, but after seeing his children, he realized he couldn't let them see his frustration. “You put your emotions aside and deal with their emotions,” Brady told Men’s Health in a September 2019 cover story. “I said guys, look, Daddy doesn’t always win. That isn’t the way life is."
Brady knows his kids were more upset that the loss was their father's than that the loss was ... a loss. Not all three children share Brady's sports enthusiasm, a reality that Brady said he's had to adjust to.
Who are Tom Brady's kids?
Brady has three children. His first child is Jack whom he had with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan. Jack is thirteen and has two half-siblings, Benny (11) and Vivian (8), whom Brady had with wife Gisele Bündchen.
“Jack is a lot like me: he loves sports,” Brady says. “He just wants to try hard. He never wants to disappoint his dad.”
“[When] Benny came along, I thought he would be just like Jack,” Brady remembers. “So I was like C’mon, let’s do this. And he was like Nope. And I was like What?” Brady says Gisele helped him understand Benny’s different disposition, which reminded Brady more of her than himself.
“[Vivian] is just like me: super simple. Jack is just like me: he holds a lot in. Benny, he lets it all out.”
Brady says he had to adjust. “It was hard for me because I’d never had to do that. I was like what do you mean? He’s a boy. He should just do all these things that I do.”
Brady says his children helped change his perception of fatherhood
When Brady was a kid, his father, who worked as an insurance salesman, would come home in suit and tie and then hit Brady ground balls. Brady would wait for him at home. Then the two would walk up to the park. “Whenever he did that it meant the world to me,” Brady says. “Just being there and being available. I try to do that with my kids.”
Brady has learned that his kids’ preferred form of entertainment, however, isn’t always catch with dad. Movies are just as important, even for sporty Jack. Jack, for instance, loves Jumanji. Since he knows his father is on DM terms with The Rock, he asks for some insider news: is Jumanji 2 almost done filming?
“Jack would rather hang out with [Dwayne Johnson] than me,” Brady says, laughing.
Brady says that the Super Bowl loss was an instructive moment for him as a father. And he knows it wasn't just about sports.
"You either gave it your best effort or you didn’t," he says. "If you don’t give effort, I don’t care what you do in life, you'll always come up a little short." All Brady asks is that his kids give it their best. And be themselves. “[Kids] are going to be what they’re going to be. As parents you realize that. They’re going to be their own selves, not what you want them to be.”
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