One GOAT (greatest of all time) has hung up his cleats, for the second and putatively final time, and of Tom Brady’s GOATness there is little dispute. Who indeed challenges a seven-time Super Bowl winner boasting personal stats that jump…
That scrambling you hear is not Tom Brady trying to avoid hot pursuit by 290-pound tacklers with ill intent. It’s sports writers and sportscasters scrambling to find what they will write or talk about now that Tom Brady has called…
And on the fortieth day, Tom Brady unretired. In an NFL off-season that has been defined by change, the legendary quarterback’s announcement that he was going to return for his twenty-third season after all might have been the most momentous….
Our lives are about perfecting our souls. Every moment counts. And yet we each need “down time” to avoid or relieve the stress of life’s demands. We craft and cultivate distractions to keep our engines motored and lubricated. Many of…
Their names are household names even in households that don’t know a split end from, well, a split end (follically speaking). Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes, Eli Manning, and Peyton Manning do not pitch sandwiches,…
We just watched Leonardo da Vinci in cleats. Tom Brady ranks as the greatest player in the history of the National Football League, and kind fate allowed us all to witness it. Perhaps more accurately, given the specialization inherent in…
It was a day of firsts. It was the opening home game for the New England Patriots during Tom Brady’s first full season as starting quarterback in the new Gillette Stadium. My father, a longtime season ticket holder, and I…
Washington What did you do Sunday evening? I watched the gaudiest pageant ever performed on television, interspersed with a football game. The football game was a serious — dare I say? — dignified adult entertainment. Yet what came with it…
I have to come clean. I’ve been a New England sports fan my whole life, but this football season has been different. Not just because of COVID-19, but because I’m one of the thousands of New Englanders who have been…