Tom Brady walking away after 22 seasons with Patriots and Bucs

The game will never be the same.

Tom Brady is retiring from football after 22 seasons. He was an All-Pro, a passing leader, and a Super Bowl champion in 20 seasons with the New England Pats. He won his seventh ring with the Buccaneers. Brady built a dynasty in New England.

There is an ongoing debate about who is the greatest of all time. The Jordan-Kobe-LeBron argument has spanned decades, the baseball GOAT conversation is complicated by steroid use, and the majors record may never be solved. That is not the case in football. Tom Brady is the greatest to ever do it according to fans of the sport. Brady will hang up his pads at 44 years old because of his work ethic that is close to the point of insanity.

After not seeing playing time for his first two years, Brady started his junior and senior years when he beat both Alabama and Ohio State. After six other quarterbacks in his class had already been picked, he was drafted in the sixth round and went on to win more games than any other quarterback in the history of the league.

This is the end of an era for football in America. Brady has been a fixture in the league for two decades and has set the standard going forward and has set countless records in the league that future quarterbacks will be hard-pressed to compete with.