For a man who won seven Super Bowls, it's strange to say a season when Tom Brady didn't win one is perhaps the high-water mark of his career.
It's also strange to think that Brady hadn't yet become Tom Effin Brady at that point, despite already having won three Super Bowls.
But that is how Brady's 2007 should be remembered: the season when he broke through and changed the game.
The New England Patriots' loss in Super Bowl XLII sullies that team's legacy a bit when comparing it to some of the league's all-time, titanic clubs.