May 26, 2009 2:41 pm US/Eastern
Brady Reveals Details About Injury, Surgery, Rehab
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Tom Brady is back practicing with the New England Patriots – and he's talking for the first time in depth about his time off.
The quarterback who was sidelined almost all last season with a knee injury was on the field Tuesday with most of his teammates.
About 50 players, roughly half the team, took part in the voluntary sessions.
At the same time, Sports Illustrated published a new interview with Brady on Tuesday.
He told SI's Peter King he'd like to keep playing for a long time.
Brady called the last eight months "the halftime of my career."
"I want to play another 10 years," Brady told King.
"I want to play until I'm 41. And if I get to that point and still feel good, I'll keep playing. I mean, what the hell else am I going to do? I don't like anything else," he told King.
Here are some other excerpts from the interview:
THE LEFT KNEE
"Brady told SI that his recovery is on schedule, he's running and cutting without pain or restricted movement, and he has no ill effects from two follow-up procedures to flush out a postop staph infection in the knee."
THE HIT
"Brady said he never felt anger toward (Chiefs safety Bernard) Pollard ("It's football -- there's no way he owes me an explanation") or bitterness over his first major injury."
REHAB SETBACK
"Two days after the Oct. 6 surgery, he defied (wife Gisele) Bündchen's pleas and his doctor's orders to stay off the leg by putting (his son) Jack on his shoulder and moving around the hospital room, playing with him. A hematoma developed in the knee, and the staph infection ensued.
(He) denied a December report that he was in danger of having to undergo a second major surgery because of the two staph cleanups."
GUNFIRE AT HIS WEDDING?
"We found two guys on our property, and we told them to get out. Our security guys didn't even have guns. There were no shots fired."
You can read the entire interview on
Sports Illustrated's web site.
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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