25W: Bobby Unveils His Sponsored Secret + Do We Remove the GOAT Title from Tom Brady? + Kickoff Kevin Saw Someone Almost Die

The Bobby Bones Show

The Bobby Bones Show explores Tom Brady's controversial leather pants debut and debates whether his new fashion choices undermine his GOAT status. The crew

Key takeaways

• Tom Brady's shift in style symbolizes his newfound freedom post-retirement and beyond traditional athletic persona.
• South Alabama's gamified fan engagement strategy leverages player success to boost school revenue through game downloads.

Main topics

• Tom Brady's leather pants controversy
• South Alabama's EA College Football 27 fan rewards program

Notable quotes

He's finally living his 20s and his 40s.

Nothing can ruin that. If he keeps getting douchier, do we remove the GOAT title?

Conclusion

The episode blends humor and reflection on legacy, personal identity, and real-world

Transcript preview

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Each episode, Ryan Mano and I sit down with licensed therapist Sarah Dash to answer your questions and offer therapy you can actually use. Sarah's the expert. And Ryan and I, well, we're not. I Speaker 1 (0:58) don't feel chosen anymore. So I'm wondering, is this normal after you get engaged? Speaker 5 (1:04) I think he sounds like a psychopath. Oh, this is her fiance? No, I'm so sorry, Sonia. Listen to Therapy Thursday with me, Ellen Kay, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (1:16) Hi, I'm Michael Imperioli. I want to tell you about my new podcast, Underground Zero. We're looking at the opportunity of a lifetime for us and the other families. It's about the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. What's in the tunnels? Gold bars, silver ingots. It could be worth half a billion. Starring Steve Schirrippa, Ray Abruzzo, and me, Michael Imperioli. How far are you prepared to go? Listen to Underground Zero starting on September 1st on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You Speaker 1 (1:46) gave everything you could give, and now it's time to take the next step. Speaker 5 (1:49) Hey, it's Emily Tish Sussman, and this season on She Pivots, the podcast where women share bold career moves and personal turning points. I sit down with culture-shifting women who share their pivots, like Elizabeth Smart. I still feel that drive that I can still make a difference, so I'm going to keep going. And feminist legend Gloria Steinem. All of Speaker 1 (2:08) us Speaker 5 (2:08) were trying to express women's real lives. Listen to She Pivots on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 4 (2:36) Welcome to the show, Blow Daddy. Where do you want to start? Do you want to know what I spent the money on to name at Arkansas? Yes. Yeah, did it get approved? Yeah. Did the wire go through? Speaker 2 (2:48) The money went through. Speaker 4 (2:50) You don't need any help? I'll tell you in a minute. I'll tell you in a minute. South Alabama football is doing something interesting. If you get on and you play college football 27, which... I didn't buy because I haven't played at all. You Speaker 2 (3:05) haven't played anything. I Speaker 4 (3:06) crushed 26. But if you get on and you play with South Alabama as your dynasty and you win the national championship or you win the conference, you win different things, the school gives you things. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Speaker 2 (3:19) But is there a chance to win or are they so bad that you can't win? You play with the worst team. Speaker 4 (3:25) That's what I would do. So if you're good, you get the worst team and you rebuild them. Speaker 2 (3:28) Ah, okay. Speaker 4 (3:29) And so I wonder if it's in like the hardest mode because that's difficult. But so you submit a photo of yourself and your championship team along with a screenshot of the championship game and one grand prize winner, two secondary winners will be randomly selected. But then also if you just win, you also get like tickets. That's awesome. If Speaker 1 (3:45) you Speaker 4 (3:45) just do it. Because they want people to games. So they're going to give people tickets. Speaker 4 (3:49) The grand prize is you stay at the team hotel with one guest. You ride in the game day. They call it the prowl. I guess that's maybe all the buses together. Is that like Speaker 3 (3:59) with the players? Maybe. Speaker 4 (4:01) Possibly. You get a pregame sideline pass, the tunnel experience. You get a custom South Alabama football jersey. And then there's other stuff too. I think it's fun how people are creating these. But also what college football does is the more you play with the team, the more money the school gets as well. Speaker 2 (4:17) Oh, that's right. So they want Speaker 4 (4:19) that. They want that. Yeah, they want both of those. That's cool. Kind of like Speaker 3 (4:23) royalties, I Speaker 4 (4:25) guess, right? Okay. Like downloads? That'd be the closest thing to it. Yeah, like songs. If you listen to a song, a streaming song, they'll get the royalties from it. If you keep playing with them, the schools get the royalties from the game. That's crazy. So yeah, that's what's up. Thought that was kind of interesting. All right. Tom Brady wears leather pants now. Speaker 3 (4:41) Oh, boy. That's your quarterback, dude. He's your guy. Hey, I go back to Tiger Woods, you guys, okay? Tiger Woods. I saw that picture and I immediately out loud was like, what the heck is Speaker 2 (4:53) this? I Speaker 3 (4:53) haven't seen the picture. Let me see it. Well, Speaker 4 (4:54) he says he's become a fan of leather pants since after walking in Gucci's fashion show in May. And he's also going to do more modeling. Man, he's really hurting the brand. You know what's good for him? He's having fun, right? We get one life to live. Chase it. Live it. Love it. Kind of hurting the brand a little bit, though. Do Speaker 3 (5:14) you think any of his, like, Julian Edelman and Gronk calling him, like, dude, what are you doing? No, because I think he was the Speaker 4 (5:19) alpha. Speaker 3 (5:20) That's true. Speaker 4 (5:22) And outwardly, they're probably supporting him, but... Speaker 4 (5:26) Whenever he's not around, they're talking to each other, they're like, what is Tom doing? For example, Eddie, Speaker 3 (5:29) if Bobby was doing, I don't know, something like this, like growing my hair out Speaker 4 (5:34) stupidly? No, no, no. He's doing Speaker 3 (5:35) it right now, dude. No, I guess, yeah. I mean, modeling for GQ is something, but Eddie, would you call Bobby? Gucci. Oh, that's who it was. Yeah, the show. Gucci. Yeah. Would you call him and be like, Bobby, you all Speaker 2 (5:46) right, man? Like leather pants? No. No, because he's Speaker 3 (5:50) - Speaker 2 (5:50) It would have to be something really crazy. Like everything Tom has done is shocking only because we wouldn't expect Tom Brady to do that stuff. But that's because we had a narrative in our head about Tom Brady. Tom Brady may have always been like this. And now that he's not married and he can do whatever he wants, we're seeing it all? I Speaker 4 (6:16) feel like he's living his 20s and his 40s. I feel like he finally has some time and space and money. That's it. Because he has had money for a long time, but not a lot of time because he's been dedicated. Working. Not a lot of space. Yeah. And so now he's being the real him. But Speaker 2 (6:30) sometimes you forget you still have your kids. You know what I mean? His kids are older, though. Your kids are still going to see this. Speaker 4 (6:38) Everything. Yes. But I don't think what he's doing is bad. It just is not what we feel has represented Tom Brady for so long, which is be quiet, show up, do your job, and be the absolute best at it, and then do it again. And miss that Tom. Speaker 2 (6:50) I know, but you know, like whenever I decide to eat like 100 hot dogs or whatever, I forget that I have kids. Yeah, but we don't hold you to a standard other than the guy that eats 100 hot dogs. Correct. Like that is Speaker 4 (7:00) kind of. Speaker 2 (7:01) Who you are already. Right, but then the kids will watch that video in like a couple months and be like, Dad, what are you doing? Like, why would you try to eat 100 hot dogs, you know? And then, like, I think Tom's forgetting, like, all right, my kids are going to see all this. But he's not doing anything bad. He's wearing Speaker 4 (7:17) leather pants. He looks stupid. The leather pants thing is maybe making out with influencers is the weird part of it. Yeah. But other than that, I don't know that he's doing anything bad. It's just weird as opposed to who we feel like he is. Who Speaker 3 (7:29) we thought he was. But we're getting so far removed from that person. Yeah. Because the Patriots, I mean, this is what, six, seven years ago now, where it's like, we've talked about this before, but it's a whole nother generation now that's only going to know Tom Brady for this. Do Speaker 2 (7:42) you think if he keeps getting... I'm just going to say douchier. If he continues to get douchier and douchier, do we remove the GOAT title? Speaker 4 (7:52) No. He's still the greatest. Nothing Speaker 2 (7:54) can ruin that. If he Bill Cosby'd. Not that. Speaker 4 (7:59) So I'm not going to say nothing. But even then you'd go, man, he was the greatest quarterback ever, but what a terrible dude. But he'd still be the greatest quarterback ever. You kind of can't take away his championships unless you find out he cheated and you already know he cheated and you still don't care. Allegedly. He did. Speaker 2 (8:16) Oh, man, that ball was like a sponge. You're right. He did cheat. He did. Allegedly. Speaker 4 (8:21) No, no. No, no, no, no. He even got suspended. Yes. Speaker 2 (8:25) That ball was soft. Yeah, they Speaker 4 (8:27) were coming after him. Speaker 4 (8:29) Yeah, no, no, he got caught. Yeah, Speaker 3 (8:33) he cheated. Speaker 4 (8:34) Conspiracy against Tom Brady. Okay, the PGA Championship this weekend. Is it? What? I don't know. I'm looking at odds. It's not this weekend. I never know when the Masters are. I don't think it's Speaker 2 (8:45) this weekend. Speaker 4 (8:47) Yeah, it is. The finale of the 2026 PGA Tour season. This is the season. Going into the PGA Tour Championship. These Speaker 2 (8:55) are the golfers. Am I crazy? What the crap? No, man. We already had the PGA Championship. The Major. I think this is just the end of the season, which is weird anyway. Going into the Speaker 4 (9:06) PGA Tour Championship, these are the golfers. The sportsbooks have the best shot to take home the title. Speaker 2 (9:11) Huh. You're a golf man. No, no, but what happens in – because you're right, I am a golf guy, but whenever football comes around, I stop watching golf. Well, I could be wrong. What do you see, Mike? I'm looking it up. I see what you're seeing. Speaker 3 (9:25) Thursday, Speaker 2 (9:26) August 27th. It's the end of the season, right? This is where all the points matter and whoever has the most points wins. It's kind of like NASCAR. This says Speaker 3 (9:35) all the majors have concluded. Yeah, Speaker 2 (9:38) the majors are done. We've played all four of them. We've. How'd you do, Eddie? Pretty good. Pretty good. Scheffler. Number one. World number one. Plus Speaker 4 (9:50) 345 to win. Speaker 4 (9:53) I don't know. I just thought there was a big Speaker 2 (9:55) major coming up. It's just the end of the season. But you know what's weird about Scheffler? It's so weird that he's so good, so, so, so good, but then sometimes he can just crap the bed. But isn't that golf? Yeah, but Tiger wasn't like that. Tiger would never crap the bed. I Speaker 3 (10:17) think Speaker 4 (10:17) you have a revisionist history of Tiger. Really? Speaker 4 (10:21) I mean, I don't know how many majors he lost when he was leading. Probably not many. But you're talking about just majors? Speaker 2 (10:27) No, just tournaments. Because, I mean, even the FedEx Cup, I think the FedEx Cup is the one he won. And Scheffler played great. He won by, I think, I don't know, eight strokes or something. Just dominated. And then this last weekend. Speaker 4 (10:41) I Speaker 2 (10:42) mean, he barely made the cut. Speaker 4 (10:43) Yeah, Speaker 2 (10:44) I Speaker 4 (10:44) don't know. Tiger didn't miss cuts, but I think you have a revisionist history of Tiger being a superhero and winning every tournament ever. Yeah, and dominating Speaker 2 (10:49) everyone. Yeah, because that wasn't the case. But he did say that he had some blisters or he has hand, foot, and mouth or something, and that it was hurting to grip the clubs, which is crazy. Isn't Speaker 3 (11:02) that like super Speaker 4 (11:02) contagious? Speaker 3 (11:03) It's Speaker 2 (11:03) like Speaker 4 (11:03) a Speaker 2 (11:03) cow disease. Hand, foot, and mouth? Yeah, like a cattle get or something. Speaker 4 (11:07) Right. The top 20. Speaker 4 (11:11) Jersey's NFL. Speaker 2 (11:13) Oh, man. You got Speaker 4 (11:14) 20 here. If you miss three times, you're out.