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How Tom Brady's GOAT legend started (and lasted 2 decades) in the state of Michigan

Quarterback Tom Brady — a seven-time Super Bowl champion, 15-time Pro Bowler and three-time NFL MVP (in case you’re just hearing of him) — officially retired from pro football Tuesday morning, after a weekend of nationwide confusion over whether he was actually retiring.

After 22 NFL seasons (and a few extra days of offseason), his case as the NFL’s GOAT (Greatest Of All Time, that is) is solidified, and we can finally look back on his career in the pros in its entirety … and his time in college.

Before he was the GOAT with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was a kid — literally and also as a baby GOAT –— in Ann Arbor, with two seasons as the starting quarterback at Michigan.