Tom Brady is back in the NFL! We waited so long 41 days for this moment. It took little over a month of hanging out around the house eating nightshades for No. 12 to decide retirement wasn’t for him.
12 things that lasted longer than Tom Brady’s retirement
Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries lasted longer.
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James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Without a doubt the funniest element of Brady’s return post is him saying he still has “unfinished business.” Nobody is sports has better finished their business than Brady. I can scour the resources of my mind and not find a single piece of business remaining to be finished by TB12. At this point Brady is basically the Casper the friendly ghost of the NFL, he’s telling us there’s unfinished business, but he really just wants to linger in an abandoned house because it’s more comfortable than the afterlife.
Haunting aside, Brady is back. We all have to deal with it. Honestly, it’s not a bad thing except for the dude who paid $518,000 for the football from Brady’s “last” touchdown pass. Now he just owns a really expensive football.
This whole 41 day retirement thing got me thinking though: What are some events that lasted longer than Brady’s brief absence from the NFL?
12 things that lasted longer than Tom Brady’s 41 day retirement
- The 2021-22 MLB lockout (99 days)
- Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries (72 days)
- Days Home Alone was No. 1 at the box office (84 days)
- How long it takes to grow kale (59 days)
- Brett Favre’s retirement (150 days)
- Accepted time for a perfectly dry aged steak (45 days)
- The life span of a house fly (60 days)
- Days Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO was No. 1 (62 days)
- Jamarcus Russell’s holdout after being drafted by the Raiders (60 days)
- The entire TV run of Y: The Last Man (67 days)
- The 2007-08 Writer’s Guild Strike (98 days)
- Gestation period of a porcupine (112 days)
