Tom Brady is a six-time Super Bowl champ and a three-time NFL MVP, however he’s now not the highest-paid football famous person by means of an extended shot. As he printed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, then again, his salary doesn’t matter so much since he’s married to Gisele Bündchen.

On the Thursday, May 2, episode of the talk show, host Jimmy Kimmel praised the New England Patriots quarterback, 41, for taking a decrease paycheck. “You will have to be the highest-paid player in football, but you’re not the highest-paid participant because you don’t call for that,” Kimmel, 51, mentioned. “I feel you’re, like, 18th or twentieth. Shouldn’t you be the highest-paid guy?”

“That’s a excellent question,” Brady spoke back. “Usually once I don’t want to resolution a query, I’ll all the time say, like, ‘That’s a just right question.’ But I feel the things I’ve always felt for me in my existence, profitable [has] been a priority, and my wife makes a lot of money, so …”

He quipped, “I’m a little smarter than you think!”

In truth, Brady’s $20 million wage is just about half that of the Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson ($35 million) and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger ($34 million). The Super Bowl LI MVP is the 20 th perfect paid megastar, in step with NFL.com, score in the back of Eli Manning ($21 million) and Cam Newton ($20.8 million) as smartly.

Thank You!

You have successfully subscribed.

For Brady, then again, having talented teammates is definitely worth the decrease paycheck. “It’s a wage cap,” he defined to the late-night host on Thursday. “You know, you'll be able to most effective spend such a lot, and the more that one man will get, it’s much less for others. And I think from a competitive advantage standpoint, I’d like numerous excellent avid gamers round me.”

Bündchen, 38, has an estimated net worth of $400 million from her profession as a stick insect, and Forbes reported in 2012 that the previous Victoria’s Secret Angel had pulled in $Forty five million prior to now 12 months on my own. She and Brady were married since February 2009 and have two children together: son Benjamin, 9, and daughter Vivian, 6. The athlete also has an 11-year-old son, John, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tr%2FMmp6aspmjsm%2BvzqZmnJ2cmq%2BztdOyZKedp6h8r7HWrGatp51ir7Otw7JkrZmcoMBuusWlZKyZnJa%2FunnPq5iiq5Woeri1xZ5koKGjmrmmecGupZ2bmJq7cA%3D%3D