COMMENTARY
Well, that wasn’t the best Super Bowl performance of Tom Brady’s football life. It doesn’t even crack the top 10.
Had to figure that’s how it would go, right? After all, Brady — whose status as the most accomplished quarterback in professional football history became even sturdier as Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs were thumped by the Eagles, 40-22, in Super Bowl LIX — played a leading role in his first 10 Super Bowls, quarterbacking the Patriots to six victories and the Buccaneers to another.
Sunday brought Brady to American sports’ biggest game in a new role — as the analyst alongside play-by-play voice Kevin Burkhardt in Fox Sports’ top broadcast booth.