MAN IN THE ARENA Part 10: Post Game

Sports In America with David Greene · Jan 18, 2022 · 26m

There’s an old saying that pro athletes die twice. First, when their career ends. Second, of course… when they actually die. The transition from pro sports to regular life is so extreme that it feels as terrifying as dying. And what’s especially scary about that transition is that you’re facing … the unknown.

Tom Brady has figured out the formula to keep playing football for at least the foreseeable future. In some ways, you can look at his time in Tampa as a kind of second life. But even Tom refers to whatever comes after his NFL career as… “the void on the other side.”

This episode, the…