If anyone understands Super Bowl heartache, it’s Tom Brady.
In a video posted Monday on his YouTube page, the future Hall of Fame quarterback reflected on his Super Bowl 2025 experience in New Orleans this month and opened up about what it’s like to be on the losing end of the championship in the wake of Philadelphia’s blowout win over Kansas City.
“You don’t sleep for a couple of days. You think it’s a nightmare, you really do,” said Brady, who fell short in three of his 10 Super Bowl appearances.
“You’re like, ‘It didn’t happen. I woke up, it was a bad dream,’ and then you’re like, it sinks in. And ultimately, you get over it. I mean, acute pain, but then there’s that chronic scar tissue of making it that far and then coming up short. Giants, Eagles, especially when you’re the better team. In all three Super Bowls we [the Patriots] lost, we were the better team, not that day, but…”
Brady, 47, and the Patriots lost to Eli Manning and the Giants in the Super Bowl in 2008 and 2012.
New England — where Brady won six of his seven titles before scoring one more with Tampa Bay — was also bested by the Eagles in 2018 in what was Philadelphia’s first championship.
The Eagles added a second Lombardi Trophy to their collection on Feb. 9 with a 40-22 thumping of the reigning back-to-back champion Chiefs, a game that served as the first-ever Super Bowl commentated by Brady, who just wrapped his rookie season as a Fox analyst.
The Chiefs had been chasing history as the first team to potentially three-peat in the Super Bowl era.
Kansas City, which knocked off Philadelphia two years prior, completely no-showed, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes hurling two interceptions, including a momentum-shifting pick-six in the first half.
Tight end Travis Kelce was all but invisible, tallying just four receptions for 39 yards and zero touchdowns.
“Couldn’t find a lick of momentum. I’m kicking myself for some of the tiny, tiny decisions I made on the field,” Kelce, 35, said on last Wednesday’s edition of his “New Heights” podcast.
“I wasn’t the best that I could be in motivating my guys and keeping my guys calm, cool and collected and I put a lot of that on myself, you know, as the guy that’s been in the building for 12 years and seen a lot of football and seen a situation just like this, in the Super Bowl.”
Mahomes, 29, and Kelce have won three Super Bowls together during their time with the Chiefs.
The All-Pro tight end is currently his football future following his 12th season in the league and reportedly has until March 14 to decide.
As for Brady, who defeated the Chiefs in Super Bowl 2021 as a member of the Buccaneers, he called it career in 2023 after 23 seasons in the league. He briefly retired the year prior but reversed course after 40 days.
