By BYOBooyah
TAMPA, Fla. — After NFL Superstar Tom Brady stirred controversy this week by comparing an NFL season to military deployment, Brady amended those comments by clarifying that “Kuwait isn’t a real deployment.”
Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl winner, made his initial comparison when discussing the kind of single-minded focus he believes it takes to succeed during an NFL season. But, upon hearing his comments many veterans and active service members were deeply insulted that anyone would consider a trip to Kuwait as difficult as a 17-game season.
“I don’t know what would lead him to think a comment like that was ok,” said Sgt. 1st Class Mark Cauthron, a soldier who served one year at Camp Buehring, Kuwait in 2019. “Dude got sacked 27 times that season while I didn’t miss ice cream in the chow hall once during that same year.”
Brady’s comments since the initial story have been nothing but apologetic.
“I get why people are mad,” Brady said in a statement to reporters. “My comments wer…
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