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Father Thyme and Mother RosemaryThis thread is full of hopeful blarney... NO ONE cheats Father Tyme, No ONE!
On a more serious note, it's not cheating Father Time...the guy's a freak, and things change! A guy like Brady will be in vanguard of shifting expectations of what athletes can accomplish. Humans are 4 inches taller on average than they were 100 years ago. Have you seen life expectancy charts? Insane how they've changed, and pretty quickly.This thread is full of hopeful blarney... NO ONE cheats Father Tyme, No ONE!
Father time will win in the end and its true Favre fell off the year after, but Favre still showed signs that his time was up pysically and mentally as there was talks about retirement, but Brady has neither. If anything, Brady is physically amazing at his age for a QB and mentally wants to keep going. Brady won't last forever, but if he made it to 43 it would nowhere near shock me.And he completely fell apart the next year. I want Brady to play as long as he can but, most of the time, the heart is willing while the body is unable to keep up. Father Time is undefeated.
If Brady is coming out at 48 playing for his 7th ring in a Superbowl I'd be absolutely stoked. Its hard to believe anybody could play remotely good at 48 though.
My thoughts exactly. I'm not much for the word or concept of "deserve", whether in sports or life in general, so to change the semantics a bit, if anybody'd ever earned the right to play until it was obvious he couldn't, it's Tom Brady. Michael Jordan might have 7 or 8 rings if the Bulls didn't rush into shoving the whole dynasty out the back door to make way for the next generation (and...y'know, if he hadn't gotten secretly suspended for gambling a literal 8-peat might have been possible). In any case, it woulda been cool to see the older Bulls squad play the Spurs in '99 or Lakers in '00 (win or lose) instead of just fading away into the ether. I would rather watch the Patriots and 44-year-old Tom Brady lose the Super Bowl to the JG-led Bears than I would see the Patriots let Tom go before his time.I'll believe a decline when I see it