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When a footballer continues to play football after the age of 40, he will eventually play with men who are young enough to be his sons. And so they will start postponing him in the same way that a son defends a father.
“It’s so funny, because you know, he’s 43 years old, do you know what I mean?” Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette recently spoke on SiriusXM NFL Radio via JoeBucsFan.com about Tom Brady (quarterback). It’s like your dad’s calling you to do something. He always calls me and the runners [after practice]’Hey Lenny, Shady [McCoy], Ro [Jones], come pick up some routes. ‘And that’s what we do, and it’s bearing fruit now. ‘
Brady’s leadership and work ethic have helped the Buccaneers get better and better and better as the cumulative effect of effort and desire and progress continues to come to light. Now they have another twelve days to put in the necessary work to prepare for Brady’s latest date with fate in the Super Bowl.
It will not be easy for Brady, because it is never like that. He is 6-3 in Super Bowls. He has never won one in a bladder. But for a return for centuries against the Hawks in Super Bowl LI, the aging quarterback would be 5-4 in Super Bowls. And that will take all he and his teammates have to avoid slipping Brady’s points period to 6-4, as the Chiefs are perhaps the toughest opponent Brady has ever encountered in a championship game.