Tom Brady gets sentimental after 'special Thanksgiving weekend' filled with family and football

The Thanksgiving play was a "special" 1 for Tom Brady, arsenic the NFL backmost fable got sentimental with a lengthy societal media station showcasing days filled with nostalgia, household and more.

Brady performed his Thanksgiving Day duties for Fox Sports, calling the Detroit Lions-Green Bay Packers crippled alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, but helium besides enjoyed immoderate assemblage festivities aft a travel to his alma matter, the University of Michigan, for "The Game" against Ohio State and more.

Brady posted a carousel of pictures to his Instagram, featuring his children — Jack, 18, Benjamin, 15 and Vivian, 12 — arsenic good arsenic his parents, Galynn Patricia and Tom Sr., and niece Hannah Brady, who plays Division I volleyball for the Wolverines.

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Ohio State Buckeyes antiaircraft coordinator Matt Patricia talks to Tom Brady anterior to the NCAA shot crippled against the Michigan Wolverines astatine Michigan Stadium successful Ann Arbor, Mich. connected Nov. 29, 2025. (IMAGN)

"What a peculiar thanksgiving play with the radical I emotion most," the 48-year-old aboriginal Pro Football Hall of Fame captioned the carousel. "Laughing, playing, eating excessively much…and enjoying our household and shot and contented successful the authorities of Michigan."

Brady’s archetypal representation connected the carousel was him and his daughter, Vivian, smiling connected the Big House turf successful Ann Arbor. Brady and institution would’ve surely liked a antithetic effect during the game, though, arsenic the Buckeyes yet snapped their losing watercourse against their astir heated rival to stay the apical squad successful the country.

The 2nd representation was besides a household affair, this clip connected the volleyball tribunal astatine the university.

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"I americium truthful blessed to enactment with the champion squad astatine [Fox Sports] delivering a large crippled betwixt the Lions and the Packers," Brady wrote. "Working with Kevin Burkhardt and Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi and our full unit made past Thursday truthful overmuch fun. And past to question soon down the roadworthy to Ann Arbor to ticker the astir diversion Brady household subordinate to ever play astatine Michigan, my niece who plays for the Wolverines Volleyball team, and walk clip with each of my extended household made this 1 of the champion Thanksgivings ever."

Brady famously worked his mode done the Wolverines’ shot backmost extent chart, opening successful 1995 arsenic a freshman retired of Junipero Serra High School successful San Mateo, California.

He got sentimental astir his clip backmost successful Ann Arbor, which helium says helium ever cherishes.

Ohio State Buckeyes antiaircraft coordinator Matt Patricia hugs Tom Brady anterior to the NCAA shot crippled against the Michigan Wolverines astatine Michigan Stadium successful Ann Arbor, Mich. connected Nov. 29, 2025. (IMAGN)

"It’s ever specified a peculiar acquisition being connected the Michigan campus, particularly present that I don’t person to instrumentality finals anymore!" Brady joked. "We got to spell to the large location to spot Michigan shot instrumentality connected a large Ohio State squad [angry emoji] And to spot truthful galore erstwhile teammates and friends meant the satellite to me. I’m truthful admit and grateful for each the unthinkable memories and relationships that person been created since I started astatine Michigan successful 1995."

But the travel to Ann Arbor wasn’t conscionable astir Brady reminiscing — helium enjoyed each 2nd that his household got to walk with him determination arsenic well, particularly his children.

"To stock that acquisition and each those memories with my kids was a imagination travel true. The crippled didn’t rather crook retired the mode we hoped (I inactive support it was a touchback!)" Brady wrote, referencing a arguable Ohio State touchdown by Jeremiah Smith successful the Michigan loss. "But the prima ever comes up the adjacent day, and to recognize that it was 1 of the champion weekends of my beingness Surrounded by the emotion of my parents means the satellite to me. I look guardant to coming backmost soon and to finishing the NFL play beardown and creating much unforgettable memories with this crew.

Fox sports announcer Tom Brady looks connected anterior to the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 23, 2025 successful Arlington, Texas. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

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"Sending my emotion to you each and gratitude and I anticipation you each had an unthinkable Thanksgiving arsenic well. Even the radical successful Columbus [winking emoji]."

As the carousel of pictures continued, Brady was spotted walking retired of the passageway and onto the tract astatine the Big House earlier the Michigan-Ohio State crippled with his daughter. He was besides pictured with his 2 sons successful the tunnel, sharing a flick connected the volleyball tribunal with his niece, and adjacent having a drawback wrong a signifier installation for the Wolverines shot squad with Jack.

It was a household matter some successful Detroit and Ann Arbor, and it’s surely 1 that Brady and the remainder of his household won’t forget.

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