and gaslighting him and his people on twitter that are also against the vaccine is not the answer either. forget twitter. think about his family. think about people getting all of the information they need, the facts about protecting themselves and their communities. themselves and the communities. dr. kavita patel, jake ward, thank you both so much. we ve got to turn, because this morning, it is official. more people than ever thinking, talking, watching football. the next super bowl is officially set after the cincinnati bengals and l.a. rams pulled out tough, tough wins in two games that came down to the final seconds. but off the field, most people spend the weekend talking about tom brady, after reports swirled that arguably the greatest player of all time could be retiring. sources close to the 44-year-old say he has not made a decision yet, so let s discuss and bring in mike flurio and vann bolen, senior nfl reporter at the
he s right there right now. one more season gets him to 45. he s still clearly at the top of his game. he led the nfl in passing yards and touchdowns this year and is probably going to finish second place for mvp. so he certainly, i think, could keep playing for as long as he s willing to put in the effort with his body, with his diet, as long as his family is okay with him. but at the same time, he literally has nothing left to prove. he s won everything, he s done everything. i think the biggest surprise with the announcement, though, was how it came out. kind of like what mike said. this did not seem like tom brady s big, grand retirement announcement at 2:30 on a saturday afternoon, while boston is getting hit with two feet of snow. i think brady is just trying to put the tooth paste back in the tube a little bit. and i wouldn t be surprised if that retirement announcement is coming very soon, potentially this week. mike, super bowl now set, after an incredible few weeks of playo
boston globe who covered brady for years and years. mike, it seems we ve got very different stories from all sides, multiple reports. what in the world is going on. well, i think brady is planning to retire. i think he wanted to announce it on his own terms, at his own time, and somebody blabbed, somebody let the cat out of the bag. and now he s trying to push back. he didn t want to upstage the playoffs. he wanted to do it when he wanted to do it. so we now wait for him to officially do it, unless for some reason he would react to the news getting out by saying, screw it, i m going to play one more year. although, as fascinating as that would be, that s highly unlikely. you ve covered tom brady for years and years, obviously as a new england patriot. what went through your mind when you heard the news? what are people in new england saying? i think people are surprised, a little bit. i mean, not i mean, he s 44 years old. he s breaking new barriers every single season that he
thing. another classic bowl game because you just assume alabama will blow them out. notre dame still national championships in 73, 74, 77. i don t know an alabama fan alive then that doesn t want that match-up and take the frustration 30 1/years out. let s talk about the games quickly saturday night. holy cow. k state, what happened to k state in the hands of baylor and waco was unbelievable. they dismembered them. and then, of course, stanford, as mark said, so cool under pressure. oregon, a crazy stadium. it shows you how much the pressure mounts on the teams on the top. as you get deeper and deeper into the season and you foale what you re working for is right there but we have to just not screw up this week or next week. you can just sense it, here it comes. it gives the opposing team extra motivation to be that team that can knock off one of the top teams in the country. mike, who is the best team in
the entire piece. with us now, let s go to political, chief white house correspondent michael len is here with the morning playbook. mike, i guess good morning. good morning, mika. happy monday. the obama campaign used online data to their advantage during the election. now the race is over, are they still mika, this is amazing. they re going even further. yesterday the president s campaign manager jim macina blasted out an e-mail to tens of millions of people on their list asking for more data. they re going to continue to work this muscle, build this database, asking their supporter, volunteer what s they would like to do for the obama organization, they call it, in the future. how many hours would you be willing to volunteer in your community for the obama organization. so they re asking for suggestions of what they should do next. help local candidates run, help local issues. and they also ask such porters,