{"id":50902,"date":"2022-03-14T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50902"},"modified":"2022-03-14T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T00:57:14","slug":"the-goat-is-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50902","title":{"rendered":"The GOAT is coming back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">There really is no way for me to explain my disappointment to learn that Tom Brady is coming back for at least one more season playing professional football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ll try anyway \u2026 to explain myself.<\/p>\n<p>Brady completed his 22nd year in the National Football League, losing a playoff game to the Los Angeles Rams. Then he decided to retire. I hailed it at the time. Why? Because he had just finished a stellar season. He led the league in passing yards and a whole host of other quarterback categories.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, he did it at the\u00a0<em>age of 44!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Greatest Of All Time<\/em>\u00a0was going out at the top of his game. He would stay home with his gorgeous wife and gorgeous kids and do whatever it is that retired sports superstars do.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! Today he said he is coming back for another season in Tampa. It\u2019ll be No. 23!<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded at this very moment of something my wife \u2014 hardly a football fan \u2014 said when he announced his retirement. She said Brady\u2019s retirement announcement reminded her of Bret Favre, the former Green Bay Packers QB who came back\u00a0<em>twice more<\/em>, to play for the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I just wish the GOAT would have stayed retired. That he would have decided that a league-leading passing performance would result in a sparkling conclusion to a career that is beyond any equal.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am left to hope for the best for Tom Brady and pray he hasn\u2019t reached beyond his grasp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no way for me to explain my disappointment to learn that Tom Brady is coming back for at least one more season playing professional football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But I\u2019ll try anyway \u2026 to explain myself. Brady completed his 22nd year in the National Football League, losing a playoff game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The GOAT is coming back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9904,3302,4837],"class_list":["post-50902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-goat","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50903,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions\/50903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}