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Mitch Albom: Tom Brady just gets better with age with seventh Super Bowl victory

Youth will be served — but not this year. With a 43-year-old quarterback, a 68-year-old coach, and a tight end who came out of retirement, Super Bowl 55 could have been brought to you by AARP. And that’s the winning team.

You read that right. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who missed the playoffs the last 12 years, rode the signing of the greatest quarterback of all time, the ageless Tom Brady, to one of the greatest turnarounds of all time, culminating in an upset win of the defending Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs in a defensive squash, 31-9.