Tom Brady has regrets on roast, says he 'wouldn't do that again' - ESPN

What was billed as «the greatest roast of all time» turned out to be anything but for Tom Brady, who expressed regrets at the impact it had on his three children.

«I loved when the jokes were about me,» Brady said Tuesday on «The Pivot» podcast with Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder. «I thought they were so fun. I didn't like the way it affected my kids.

»So it's the hardest part; the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and all of a sudden you realize 'I wouldn't do that again' because of the way it affected, actually, the people I care about the most in the world."

Brady's comments came at the end of the 56-minute podcast, when he was asked by Taylor — his teammate with the New England Patriots in 2009 and 2010 — if he learned anything about himself from the roast.

Taylor's question was delivered more in the context of his connection with teammates and how it seemed to reflect their bonds formed in the locker room over years, but Brady instead focused on his children Jack, Benjamin and Vivian.

«It makes you, in some ways, a better parent going through it,» he said. «Sometimes you are naïve. You don't know, or you get a little like, 'Oh s---.'

»I love when people were making fun of me.… I just want to laugh, so I wanted to do the roast. You just don't see the full picture all the time. So I think it's a good lesson for me as a parent. I'm going to be a better parent as I go forward because of it."

Brady added: «At the same time, I'm happy everyone who was there had a lot of fun. And I do think for me, outside of that, it always is good 'if we're not laughing about things, we're crying.' I think we should have more fun. We loved laughing in the locker room. Let's do more of