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When a football player continues to play football after the age of 40, he will eventually be playing with men young enough to be his children. And then they will begin to submit to him in the same way that a son does to a father.
“It’s so funny because, you know, he’s 43, you know what I mean?” The buccaneers’ running back Leonard Fournette recently told SiriusXM NFL Radio, via JoeBucsFan.com, about quarterback Tom Brady. “It’s like your dad is asking you to do something. He’s always calling me and the running backs [after practice], ‘Hey Lenny, Shady [McCoy], Ro [Jones], come and take some routes. ‘And that is what we do, and it is paying off now. “
Brady’s leadership and work ethic has helped Buccaneers to get better and better, as the cumulative effect of effort, desire and progress continues to unfold. They now have 12 more days to put in the work needed to prepare for Brady’s last Super Bowl encounter.
It won’t be easy for Brady because it never is. He’s 6-3 in the Super Bowls. He never won one in an explosion. But for a comeback for ages against Falcons in Super Bowl LI, the aged quarterback would be 5-4 in the Super Bowls. And it will take everything he and his teammates have to keep Brady’s all-time mark from dropping to 6-4, because the Chiefs may be the toughest opponent Brady has ever faced in a championship game.