The seven time super bowl champion Tom Brady has finally retired after 22 years of being in the league.  He was one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.

Brady has a total of 84,520 passing yards.  He has a 64.2% pass completion rating, and he also has 624 total touchdowns in the more than two decades he has been playing. 

He was on two different teams throughout the span of his football career: the New England Patriots for 20 years, in the last two years playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He won six Super Bowls with the Patriots.  He also won one Super Bowl with the Buccaneers last year, which was his first year with the team. 

In Brady’s college years at Michigan State (from 1996-1999) he wasn’t truly an asset to the team until his junior year where he immediately started setting school records: third most passing touchdowns in a Michigan song, fifth most in passing yards, and fourth in most 200 yd passing games.

As a result of these records, the Patriots drafted him in 2000, but he was the 199 pick of the draft and  everybody doubted him. 

That is, until he hit the field in 2000 and was very good at the game.  But in his first game he didn’t play much so his stats were terrible.  He had a total of six yards, one pass completion and that’s it. 

As career highlights, he is one of the oldest players in the NFL at 44 years old. He was the youngest player to win Super Bowl 36 at the age of 24 years old.(now the second youngest to Steelers quarterback Ben Rothlesberger).

Personal highlights include his marriage to Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen and having two children with her.

A long standing career like his own isn’t without some problems. According to the NFL Report Brady was “at least generally aware” of a plot to deflate the footballs.  This was in a Superbowl game which is important to the teams. As a result, the NFL suspended him for the first four games of the 2016 season, and they handed the team a $1 million fine and revoked two draft picks.