Brady made no secret of his feelings on the play. He said he felt Branch was kicked out during a routine football game and that Branch should not have been kicked out. In explaining his feelings, Brady didn’t hesitate to criticize the call on the field.

“I don’t like that call at all,” Brady said. “I mean, obviously it’s a penalty, but for me it has to be serious intention in a game like this.”

Brady’s comments, while mild, still seemed to move in the direction of criticizing the referees, something Brady is not allowed to do. However, Sports Business Journal’s Ben Fischer recently got clarification on the matter from NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy.

“The problem would be if Tom was extremely critical of the officiating or questioned the integrity of an official or crew,” McCarthy said. “That didn’t happen in this case,” McCarthy told Fischer. Thus ending any possibility of Brady receiving any punishment for these particular comments.

While Brady may have broken a rule or two during his playing days, his comments during Sunday night’s game were mostly innocuous and probably wouldn’t have made waves if anyone other than Brady l ‘had said. As interesting as it was to see whether or not the NFL would punish Brady, they made the right decision not to.

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