A documentary series called "Tom vs. Time" will debut later this month via Facebook Watch. The series focuses on Brady's pursuit of a sixth Super Bowl in 2017 and his ongoing effort to extend his playing career.

Filmmaker Gotham Chopra was given extensive access to Brady in his home in Massachusetts, on family vacations to Costa Rica, a trip to Montana with teammates, on a summer tour in China, and in the car during Brady's commute to and from work.

Chopra, son of the prolific New Age author Deepak Chopra, grew up a Patriots fan in Lincoln, Mass. He spent several years working as a television journalist around the world before settling in Los Angeles, where he met Brady though mutual friends nearly a decade ago.

“We thought it would be fun to record what an offseason of training looks like for a 40-year-old athlete,” said Brady, reached by email Monday night.

“Tom is not a sentimental guy, necessarily,” Chopra said. “But I do think, as we talked, he was sort of discovering parts of himself. It’s like therapy. It’s the process of saying it and giving voice to it.”

Gisele Bundchen describes what it’s like to have to share her husband with his “first love,” football. “It really is his main love,” Bündchen says, going further. “Frankly it’s true.” She mentions that when she and Brady first met, he said he only wanted to play 10 years and would have been happy to win one more Super Bowl.