{"id":27649,"date":"2020-03-17T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=27649"},"modified":"2020-05-26T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:53:59","slug":"tom-brady-bids-farewell-to-patriots-fans-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2020\/03\/17\/tom-brady-bids-farewell-to-patriots-fans-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Bids Farewell to Patriots Fans on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There won\u2019t be another season for Tom Brady under center for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\" title=\"New England Patriots at PatsFans.com\"><strong>New England Patriots<\/strong><\/a>. What fans have been bombarded with for months with constant innuendo and rumors has finally come home for sure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady bid fans a heartfelt goodbye in a series of Instagram posts that were quickly carried by Twitter and Facebook. He didn\u2019t say where his NFL career would be heading to, but we now know, there won\u2019t be the 21st season in New England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brady-goodbye-660x440.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brady-goodbye-660x440.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brady-goodbye-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 450px, (max-width: 768px) 660px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, 1200px\" height=\"440\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever the team player, Brady always eschewed personal accomplishments, a point he reiterated in his statement this morning. &#8220;Although my football journey will take place elsewhere, I appreciate everything that we have achieved and am grateful for our incredible TEAM accomplishments,&#8221; he posted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady leaves behind an incredible legacy of six Super Bowl Championships, including four Super Bowl MVP awards, nine conference championships in his 20 years in a Patriots uniform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s been saying for years, his goal was to play until he\u2019s 45-years old, and when the season begins in September, he\u2019ll be 43. But he won\u2019t be quarterbacking the Patriots this year, the only team that he\u2019s ever played for professionally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unable to come to an agreement last summer, he essentially signed a one-year deal that would allow him to test free agency for the first time in his career. And now he\u2019s gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his Patriots career, he led the team to at least 12 wins, a record total of 13 times. Now the Mount Rushmore of the Patriots Dynasty (Brady, Bill Belichick, and Robert Kraft) will be missing one of its pieces. 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