FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Using social media to playfully address speculation of when he might retire -- a topic he had broached in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired on Sunday -- New England quarterback Tom Brady responded to an ESPN Instagram post Sunday by writing "Cuarenta y Cinco".
That's 45 -- in Spanish.
Attached to the comment from Brady's verified Instagram account were three monkey emojis, which according to Unicode is the See-No-Evil monkey and part of the proverb, "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." Emojipedia.org also notes that it is "sometimes used as a playful 'I didn't want to say that' expression", or to express "my lips are sealed/I won't say anything.