"The further Tom Brady gets from the game and the more the shine comes off him, the easier it will be to see the most stunning, essential, fact about his career: it was entirely self-made, manufactured. 'Poor build…Gets knocked down easily,' a draft scout wrote about him so infamously all those years ago. What if Brady had accepted that as the final judgment, surrendered to the opinion that it was who he was, and ever would be? Don’t ever let the seven Super Bowls and the statistical records gloss over that most vital lesson.
"Brady’s legacy is this: he proved that any kid with perfectly ordinary
athletic prospects, the middle of the packer, who doesn’t come with some
preloaded or far-fetched anatomical gift, can construct greatness. What
makes a great is an inner curiosity, an urge to see what might happen
with enough study and sweat to overcome weaknesses and fill in blanks,
and if you study and sweat hard enough for long enough, you can win
everything in sight and leave so many unattainable records etched into
the books that they might as well be written in granite." -- Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins on the retirement announcement today by University of Michigan/ New England Patriots/ Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady. We weren't fans during his professional career, but there's no denying his accomplishments.
Here's how he announced it, and how a certain fan base amusingly reacted:
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) February 1, 2022
The most New York tweet that has ever been tweeted. https://t.co/kYsvEROgkM
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 1, 2022
