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Tom Brady's age-defying brilliance is the best kind of problem

A fresh pair of socks. As a young quarterback at Michigan, that is all Tom Brady wanted out of life. He was talking about the future one night with his teammate, Aaron Shea, dreaming like college boys do, when he asked Shea what he would want if he made it big in the NFL.

"A Dodge viper and a house in Hawaii," Shea said. "How about you?"

"Me?" Brady responded. "I'd like to wear a pair of socks every day, and at the end of the day throw them away and put new socks on.