Tom Brady revealed his lingering feelings about his three Super Bowl losses during a recent YouTube video about his experience calling Super Bowl LIX.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion discussed the emotional toll of losing the NFL’s biggest game while reflecting on his defeats to the New York Giants (2008, 2012) and Philadelphia Eagles (2018).
“You just don’t sleep for a couple of days,” Brady said. “You think it’s a nightmare, you really do. You’re like, ‘That didn’t happen. I woke up, it was a bad dream.’ And then it sinks in.”
Brady maintains his Patriots teams were superior in all three losses.
“Especially when you’re the better team. In all three Super Bowls we lost, we were the better team. Not that day, but…”
The former quarterback’s career spans 23 NFL seasons, including six championships with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Brady’s journey began at the University of Michigan before the Patriots selected him in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He took over as starter in 2001 after Drew Bledsoe’s injury.
Now in his post-playing career, Brady works as an NFL analyst for FOX, where he called his first Super Bowl – a 40-22 Eagles victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The loss still weighs on Brady, who said he believes his teams would win if those games were played again.
“And then ultimately, you get over it,” Brady said. “I mean, acute pain, but then there’s that chronic scar tissue of making it that far and then coming up short.”
