At this rate, the superlatives will run out before Tom Brady’s career does. The 43-year-old quarterback served New England as a Patriot with distinction for 20 years, long enough and with more than enough honours for two Hall of Fame careers.
After nine Super Bowl appearances in Boston - six of them victorious - Brady headed for warmer climes in west Florida last summer.
And the third decade of his remarkable career already looks eerily familiar, the Vince Lombardi Trophy - in Tiffany sterling silver - in his hands for a seventh time, another parade coming up and one more Super Bowl ring being cast for his magic fingers.
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