For all of his success, it is not surprising that not finishing the perfect season in 2007 still causes knots in Tom Brady's stomach. It's always interesting how someone can be so wildly successful, yet still let a particular failure or two gnaw away at them forever. It's human nature.
Yeah, very true. What amused me is that he quantified its value. Two rings, but not 3?
Haha, exactly.
This will be a weird analogy for some, but Tom Brady is to football what Taylor Swift is to music. Their greatness is so overwhelming now that it is impossible to ignore, but the haters are still there, yet their credibility it shot to hell. The haters at this point might as well try pissing into a tornado. And like Taylor not winning a Grammy for Red (which destroyed her at the time) will likely always bug the crap out of her, TB12 not getting that perfect season will always bug him. And I get it. When you are used to winning, the rare losing is all the more crushing, especially when you are oh so close.
There are famous people here, I guess, but I think there's a level of "celebrity" and "success" where you can no longer really say "they're just like you and me". I've worked with people like that (Jack Welch comes to mind) who just view things differently. I know it's fun and popular to say "Oh, Bruce is just a regular guy", or "Bono is a mate, mate!", but at a certain level, they're not. These people work at their craft at a level that I think is just out of the ordinary for most people, and when that work, that craft, doesn't result in the goal at hand, it's something else to process.
That's why I always said that the Deflategate thing missed the point entirely. Brady didn't tell anyone to in- or de-flate anything. HE DIDN'T HAVE TO. All he had to do is say "wow, it's so much better to throw a soft ball" and SOMEONE was going to take the initiative to do that.