Tom Brady’s list of accomplishments is long anyway. Longer than anyone else who’s played American football. He is the most successful professional in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and has long been on a par with icons of world sport such as Michael Jordan in basketball or Diego Maradona in football.
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Should Brady win his next game – at the proud age of 44, he is still active in the NFL and, how could it be otherwise, the current champion of the league – another record would be added to his impressive collection of successes that only came before him have achieved very few. If Brady wins against the New England Patriots this Sunday, he has defeated each of the 32 teams in the NFL at least once. In view of the structure of the league with its different groups and small groups, an almost surreal idea.
Because the NFL fixtures partially follow a predetermined structure and games against teams outside of their own “conference” are extremely dosed or take place in the Superbowl, the grand finale for the title, this brand can only be achieved by professionals who either very often Change teams (which does not necessarily mean that there are a lot of successes) or be a very successful part of the league for a very long time.
A little insight into this elite circle: Brett Favre, quarterback legend of the Green Bay Packers, Peyton Manning, recently inducted into the “Hall of Fame” of the NFL, or Drew Brees, Brady’s long-time rival from the New Orleans Saints, who went to Brady soon to lose the prestigious record for the most yards ever thrown.
First year superbowl
Brady has entered his 22nd season this year, mind you in a sport that is extremely prone to injury and in which most professionals only survive on average for about three years. During that time, the quarterback only played for two teams. He is now in the service of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won the Superbowl with Brady in their first year, all of which he had spent 20 years earlier with: the New England Patriots, his opponent in the now imminent and therefore eagerly awaited by the American public Duel on Monday night German time (Monday 2.20 a.m. live on DAZN).
This clash – it will also be Brady’s first appearance at Patriots Stadium in Foxborough since his not so smooth departure from New England – electrifies the sports world. Because the seven-time Superbowl winner won six of these titles in the Patriots jersey. Because Brady seemed unimaginable to many for many years in a different jersey than this one.
Tom Brady faces the extraordinary, of all things against the Patriots.
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Because the move to Tampa Bay still raised and raises unresolved questions of detail. And because the playmaker, already disapproved by many because of his many successes, could achieve another record with another win. Of all things, you could say with a victory over the Patriots, for whom there have hardly been any successes since Brady’s departure.
Great influence
Brady has turned his back on New England because he no longer felt fully valued there, because the relationship with his coach Bill Belichick had cooled and he was too seldom involved in important decision-making processes relating to the team. All of that has improved dramatically in sunny Florida. With the Buccaneers, he has influence on game tactics and personnel planning.
With Rob Gronkowski and Antonio Brown, he already piloted two players who were also under contract with the Patriots to Tampa Bay last season. This week, the sensational signing of former top defender Richard Sherman followed, in which Brady is said to have played a key role.
And his trainer? Hardly loses a bad word about his most important athlete, on the contrary: Bruce Arians praises Brady wherever and whenever he can. Brady, who is also looked after by two-time Olympic champion Roger Kingdom in the field of athletics at the Buccaneers, lets these words be followed by deeds where and whenever he can. So the best conditions for many more victories and a first against New England. That would be “a big deal”, Arians agrees. And Brady? “Let all the hype go,” said the trainer. “Just prepare to play and beat the Patriots.”
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