SportsPulse: Tom Brady is known for his epic comebacks, but USA TODAY Sports' Dan Wolken says that the first glimpses of his knack for comebacks started in his days at Michigan. USA TODAY Sports
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The task, like it has so many times throughout Tom Brady’s career, seemed impossible. But if you could travel back in time to 1999, before the five Super Bowl titles, before rescuing 28-3 against the Falcons, before this year’s seemingly inevitable second-half comeback against Jacksonville in the AFC Championship Game, you’d land in State College, Pa., only to see a 10-point deficit against Penn State that would have felt at the time like a certain loss for Michigan with a Big Ten title hanging in the balance.