There’s a point during the first episode of “Man in the Arena,” when Tom Brady, uncharacteristically, admitted that he was sort of relieved that injury prevented him from playing the remainder of the AFC Championship in Pittsburgh.
“The moment was definitely bigger than I was ready for,” he said.
Twenty years later, maybe we will all say the same should the potential Super Bowl showdown between Bill Belichick’s Patriots and Brady’s Buccaneers actually take place come February.
Is that something we can even really handle?
This is no longer a pipe dream. According to Football Outsiders, the two teams have a 14.