No one knew it at the time, but the entire course of one perpetually mediocre NFL franchise, plus the metaphorical and literal fortunes of multiple people and arguably the league itself, changed in one moment on Sept. 23, 2001.
Tom Brady came into the game at quarterback for the New England Patriots.
The trite thing to say here is "the rest is history," but holy hell what a history. And almost as remarkably, there's still a present.
Brady's origin story on its own is movie script-worthy.