Call me a sentimental fool, call me what you will.
But I’m not the least little bit ashamed to admit that I’m in love with love.
To use the cliche', “Opposites attract.”
I don’t mean the cheap, superficial kind of romances.
I’m talking about the deep, heartfelt, lasting, loving relationships that stick with you.
William Wallace and Hamish.
There’s has been a sweeping epic that has transcended all time and space.
Coach couldn’t play quarterback and I couldn’t coach.
And the best part about football is, coach says it a lot, ‘Do your job.’
And he just asked me to quarterback.
He didn’t ask me to coach.
And I didn’t want to coach.
And I didn’t want him to play quarterback.
I just wanted him to coach.
I’d seen him throw, so he definitely wasn’t playing quarterback.
(Laughter)"
“In my view, people were always trying to pull us apart.
I don’t think we ever felt like that with each other.
We never were trying to pull each other apart.
We actually were always trying to go in the same direction.
Let’s just start trying to divide them.'
“I never really appreciated the way people would attempt to do that.
He and I always had a great relationship and we met all the time.
Did we always see everything exactly the same way?
Who does in life?
What relationship can you have where, you know, everything goes like a bright, sunny day?
There were moments that were, you know, never intolerable.
But I would say it was healthy debates about certain things.
We always talked about them face to face.
And we didn’t always agree.
But we always respected each other.
“I know he respected me for the job I did, and I certainly did the same.
I think even when you go away from each other, you probably respect each other that much more.
I know I certainly did.
Because I respected the commitment he was trying to make to get our team to win.”
hey allow me to pause here to collect myself, because I’m a puddle right now.
No one ever sat in on their almost daily meetings.
Heard their private discussions.
Save for this one clip we’ve all seen, from 2009:
But everybody was an expert.
So riddle me this: Why is this being said now?
To help his post-playing career?
He’s about 18 months away from collecting $35 million a year of Foxbucks.
I don’t see where he needs to polish his public image any.
The answer is, he wouldn’t lie about it.
This is him setting the record straight.
They had interpersonal disagreements like every great partnership does, but they never were at odds.
I saw it through a coach’s eyes.
I’m like, ‘This guy sees everything.'”
And every word of this is exactly how I’ve imagined it to be.
I mean, just listen to Brady’s voice crack here:
He was fine in 80 for Brady.
But nobody is this good an actor.
That’s genuine raw emotion.
The kind you only experience in one of the truly great love stories of our time.
Because even after 29 years of marriage, what Brady and Belichick have is my Couples Goal.
