After
winning his fourth Super Bowl and third Super Bowl MVP he was due for a little
down time, vacationing in Costa Rica with the impossibly cute kids and his stunning super model wife, a little surf and sand, cliff-diving, golfing and balling with MJ…
You hate
him 'cause you ain't him.
If you
aren't jealous of Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr. yet, I don't think you've been paying
attention. Or you're a total Patriots fan boy and then you're simply
slack-jawed in awe of the man.
Did I
mention he's got two movies dropping this Summer? Okay, they're just cameos
in movies made by his buddy Mark Wahlberg but still, he's friends with Mark
Wahlberg! (And seriously, why has it taken this long to get "Ted 2" done?) In terms of on field
success and off the field celebrity (with all due respect to Aaron Rodgers and
Olivia Munn) I have to go all the way back to Bob Waterfield
and Jane Russell (let's hope it ends better for Tom
and Gisele).
It's hard
for most of us to believe but even with a fully healthy Rob Gronkowski shaking his Super Bowl booty on any stage that will have him, Tom
Brady, after everything else he's won, is winning the off-season, too. He had a
better real-life week than anything
we've seen from the fictional most interesting man in the world.
This was
the year Brady moved on from Brady vs. Manning to Brady vs. The History of
Everything. I respect the opinion that Montana is the greatest of all time. I
happen to disagree but of course I would because I'm one of those slack-jawed
with awe fan boys I mentioned above. I think Brady's overall body of work in
the regular season and all levels of the playoffs as well as the relative
talent level on their respective teams gives Tom Terrific the edge. Let's just
say if the list is Joe Montana and Tom Brady, that's a pretty good list.
Quick
Aside: According
to Pro Football Reference, here's the list of QB comps for Tom
Brady's career: Drew Brees, Dan Marino, John Elway, Fran Tarkenton, Brett
Favre, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, Steve Young, Dan Fouts and Ken Anderson.
That's a pretty good list, too.
Then
there's this piece from Pats Pulpit. It seems that with each new
statistical perspective on QB play, Brady's legend grows to dimensions that
seem fictional if not downright mythic. From the moment my wife dubbed him
"Young Odin" it made perfect sense to me.
Tom
Terrific. Perfect Tommy. TB12. The Icy Commander. Tommy. Young Odin. Brady.
Brady.
Just Brady.
The
greats, the immortals only need one name.
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