Brady delivers Super Bowl win for the ages

TOM Brady has won his seventh Super Bowl, to confirm himself the finest American footballer in history by the length of Route 66, and one of the most extraordinary athletes the world has ever seen.

The old bloke was asked about the debate over who was the “greatest of all time”. Brady, 43, said: “Everyone has different tastes for different things.

“If I say, what’s your favourite meal, some people like steak. Some people like chicken. I don’t know, some people like pizza. That’s athletes. You know what I mean? It depends what style you like.

“I just want to go out there and play a great game.”

Brady played a game so great his underdog Tampa Bay Buccaneers annihilated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl LV. No words on this page could do justice to the perfect shock of it.

Brady schooled the Chiefs’ 25-year-old superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes, to claim an unrivalled seventh Superbowl ring.

We thought his story had already been written – and an epic tale it was – but on Monday, he scribbled another chapter. It was true sporting greatness.

The steak, the chicken and the pizza. The whole damn meal.

Forty-three looked the new 34.

His first six Super Bowl triumphs came at the powerhouse New England Patriots.

To go to struggling Tampa and repeat the feat had been thought impossible.

The devastated Mahomes said, post-game: “When you’re an athlete, you chase greatness. Tom Brady is the pinnacle of that.”

Brady’s titles at the Patriots paled by comparison to this. He roared to the firework-lit sky. Hands went to his head. Nearly too good to be true. Raymond James Stadium had 25,000 humans and 40,000 cardboard cutouts in attendance. Even the latter seemed to jump to their feet and salute him. “I’m happy,” he said before the familiar routine of lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy and accepting the MVP award.

No hair was out of place. Not a drop of sweat.

He looked every inch an allAmerican hero.

“How about that! I’m so proud of all of these guys,” he said while pointing at his teammates. “I think we knew this was going to happen, didn’t we? I’m not making any comparisons. This team … world champions forever. ”