Thank You, Tom

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I want to add thank you Tom for making this a relatively drama free coming to an end. This is about the classiest way to do it as a mega-star athlete could. This is one of those healthy divorces where both sides are going to be amicable and still friends after. Neither side is using scorched earth tactics and the kids don't have to choose sides (that's us I guess in my shitty analogy). TB12 will come back after he retires - anyone here doubt he signs a one day deal and retires a Patriot? With egos, competitors, and personalities like we had this could have gone south quickly and it didn't.
 

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Bumping up.

Two decades and 6 rings for the home team. GOAT status. Appreciate here.

View: https://twitter.com/TB_Facts/status/1487512741111898113

20 seasons
14 conference championship games
10 Super Bowls
7 titles
243-73 regular season
35-12 postseason
97,569 yards
710 TD passes
There won’t be anyone else like Tom Brady ever again.

The youtube dives are amazing but you can't view them directly. This one is his best play against every NFL team.
View: https://youtu.be/efEBPkUoQUc
 

Silverdude2167

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Bumping up.

Two decades and 6 rings for the home team. GOAT status. Appreciate here.

View: https://twitter.com/TB_Facts/status/1487512741111898113

20 seasons
14 conference championship games
10 Super Bowls
7 titles
243-73 regular season
35-12 postseason
97,569 yards
710 TD passes
There won’t be anyone else like Tom Brady ever again.

The youtube dives are amazing but you can't view them directly. This one is his best play against every NFL team.
View: https://youtu.be/efEBPkUoQUc
A Superbowl 50% of the seasons is so insane and hilarious...you forget how well we had it
 

BornToRun

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Godspeed, GOAT. Words fail to describe the joy you’ve brought me over the years so I’ll just say thank you for being the fucking best. Enjoy retirement to its fullest.
 

Ferm Sheller

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My wife and I got married the day before Tom’s first start. While I am still happily married, trust me, it’s been a long time.

Thanks, Tom.
Jeez, this made me think: My wife and I got married in June 2000, just two months after Brady was drafted. He's been in the NFL since before we were married -- that's crazy!
 

streeter88

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My wife and I got married the day before Tom’s first start. While I am still happily married, trust me, it’s been a long time.

Thanks, Tom.
Hilarious! I got married the week before - on Sunday. So we were eating lobsters on the beach while Mo Lewis was changing the course of NFL history…

Edit: and yes still married.
 

grsharky7

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I think there is going to be a lot of that around here. When the Pats drafted Brady, it was like another lifetime ago for me.
I think for a lot of people that will be the case, 22 years is a long time. When Brady was drafted I was nearing the end of my junior year of high school and his rookie season was my senior year. Now I'm 38 years old, married and have two kids. I was talking about this with some students of mine recently actually. I told them that when Brady came into the league I was sitting in the same seats they are right now (I teach at the school I went to). That really blew their mind.
 

SawtoothPatsFan

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I think for a lot of people that will be the case, 22 years is a long time. When Brady was drafted I was nearing the end of my junior year of high school and his rookie season was my senior year. Now I'm 38 years old, married and have two kids. I was talking about this with some students of mine recently actually. I told them that when Brady came into the league I was sitting in the same seats they are right now (I teach at the school I went to). That really blew their mind.
I'm in pretty much the same boat (I was a senior in HS when Brady was drafted). It just seems crazy to think that until Tom Brady came along Boston teams not named the Celtics just didn't win. Break the hearts of fans everywhere? Sure. Win a title? Keep dreaming.

Then Tom Brady happened and the rest is history--and an entire generation of Boston sports fans has now grown up thinking (not unreasonably, based on what they could see with their own two eyes) that a championship every few years was a given. Thanks for too many amazing memories to possibly list Tom.