In the pregame hoopla before Tom Brady led his team to the AFC championship over Jacksonville, he unveiled his Facebook Watch series, “Tom vs. Time:” “When I see myself out there, I feel like, ‘Man, I still do this and I do it better than I’ve ever done it. So why should I stop?’”
Brady is one of the bookends in the current pantheon of Boston sports taking Father Time head on with Rolex precision; Zdeno Chara is the other. Graybeards at age 40 and unsurpassed in contribution to their respective teams when the overwhelming majority of all professional athletes are long since retired.