{"id":1704157,"date":"2022-10-20T13:18:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704157"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:59","slug":"dear-tom-brady-football-is-not-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dear-tom-brady-football-is-not-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Tom Brady: Football Is Not War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdear-tom-brady-football-is-not-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dear Tom Brady,<\/p>\n<p>Football is not like the military.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on his <a href=\"https:\/\/lets-go.simplecast.com\/episodes\/tom-brady-kevin-durant-joins-and-a-full-breakdown-of-week-6-AlKGTw0X\">\u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d podcast<\/a>, Tom Brady made a comment about work-life balance in the NFL to NBA superstar Kevin Durant, and I quote, \u201cI almost look at football season like you are going away on deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, Tom it\u2019s not, it is actually nothing like that.<\/p>\n<p>I was in the football business for a decade and I know how crazy the hours are.\u00a0Time away from your family is tough on both parties, but I am not worrying about any of my players running over an IED, getting hit by an RPG, or being in gunfights in a foreign land.<\/p>\n<p>Football is a game, one that I will love forever, but this comparison is both naive and arrogant. Yes, the NFL is unbelievably violent, but it isn\u2019t played in Fallujah or Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>The real heroes aren\u2019t the ones throwing passes or scoring touchdowns.\u00a0Our real heroes are the ones sacrificing their lives so we can play football and live in peace.<\/p>\n<p>The true heroes are the families that have to wake up and wonder every day \u2014 not if their team is going to win \u2014 but if they will ever get to see their son\u2019s, daughter\u2019s, brother\u2019s, sister\u2019s, mother or father\u2019s face ever again.<\/p>\n<p>Tom, you are the best quarterback we have ever seen, and you understand what it takes to win a Super Bowl, but this comment is beneath you and makes you seem out of touch with the people who watch you play.<\/p>\n<p>With the popular demonization of police, border patrol agents, and other law enforcement professionals today, we\u2019re headed down a dark road in society. Yet, they\u2019re the ones who have the most to lose while we sit here reaping the rewards of their work.<\/p>\n<p>It seems everyday we hear about a police officer getting shot, or fake news about our border patrol agents. We read about the weakening of the military due to policies that put party over protection \u2014 and Brady\u2019s comment kind of puts all of that in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>We are starting to take for granted the people that provide us the most and when that happens so do mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>So Tom, let\u2019s get a little perspective and remember you\u2019re damn good at playing football, but it\u2019s just a game and it sure as hell isn\u2019t war.<\/p>\n<p>To those who have served and are currently serving, thank you. You are the truest of heroes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Crain is co-host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/crain-and-company\">\u201cCrain &#038; Company.\u201d<\/a> the Daily Wire\u2019s sports show hosted by former athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. Follow him @JakeCrain_\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tom Brady, Football is not like the military. Recently on his \u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d podcast, Tom Brady made a comment about work-life balance in the NFL to NBA superstar Kevin Durant, and I quote, \u201cI almost look at football season like you are going away on deployment.\u201d No, Tom it\u2019s not, it is actually nothing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}