Patriots legend Tom Brady makes Sporting News' 140 Greatest Sports Moments list
A former New England Patriots star made an impressive list on Wednesday.
Patriots legend Tom Brady makes Sporting News' 140 Greatest Sports Moments list originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . It’s impossible to bring up the New England Patriots without mentioning Tom Brady.
The 48-year-old former sixth-round pick entered the NFL in 2000 with low expectations. However, once Brady had the opportunity to shine (during his second season, following an injury to starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe), he seized it and never looked back. Brady won six Super Bowls with the Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before retiring from the league in 2023.
Brady’s most memorable Super Bowl victory came in 2017, as the Michigan product orchestrated a masterful 25-point comeback to stun the Atlanta Falcons in overtime with a 34-28 win. The improbable Brady-led comeback ranks 8th on the Sporting News’ 140 Greatest Sports Moments list. “When the Falcons were up 21-0 late in the first half and then extended their lead to 28-3 with 8:31 left in the third quarter of Super Bowl 51, it felt like 2016 NFL MVP Matt Ryan would be leading Atlanta to its first ring,” The Sporting News’ Vinnie Lyer wrote Tuesday.
“That likely would have been the case had the GOAT, New England’s Tom Brady, not been his quarterback counterpart. ” “The signature of Brady’s career was clutch comebacks, and this was the most epic. Brady led the Patriots to 31 unanswered points, taking advantage of every Falcons’ offensive and defensive lapse to even the game at the end of regulation with plenty of help from running back James White (14 catches, 110 yards) as his go-receiver.