Shaggy Says, Come What May At Super Bowl LV, Tom Brady Has “Already Won”
Whether his team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wins or loses Super Bowl LV come tomorrow, Dancehall megastar Shaggy says Tom Brady, the man who, “for 20 years, had the NFL pinned down like a grade school bully”, “has already won!”
Shaggy hailed the 43-year-old Brady during an interview with veteran journalist Anthony Miller during Television Jamaica’s The Entertainment Report show about the interpolation of his platinum-selling song It Wasn’t Me in the minute-long Cheetos advertisement which is to be aired this Sunday in full on CBS, during the NFL Super Bowl LV face-off in Tampa, Florida.
In the ER show, which was aired on Friday night, Miller had asked Shaggy who he would be rooting for in tomorrow’s game.
According to Shaggy, Brady has proven that, like himself, it is his sheer talent and persistence that has contributed to his longevity in a sport where even in your mid-30s, you are considered old and at the pre-retirement stage.
Shaggy explained that like himself, there are many who attributed Brady’s success to the work of others, in the quarterback’s case, the influence of his former coach William Belichick, when he played for the New England Patriots in a two-decade, super-successful stint, which many have branded the ‘Brady-Belichick’ era.
“I really love what Tom Brady did, for the same fact that I relate to him on the level of: I am a guy in this thing for 30 years and people always seh ‘well yuh know, you can’t do dis again’ or they will say: ‘oh it’s because dis person was behind you why you did this. And I have proven myself over and over again that no it’s really because of my hard work, my talent that has got me there – and I have certainly have had some help along the way, but it is really about me,” the Boombastic singer said.
“And that is what Tom Brady did. And people were like “its Belichick”. Now he has pretty much proved that it wasn’t Belichick; it’s really Tom Brady and his work ethic and his mastery of his craft. So if he doesn’t win the Superbowl, he has already won,” Shaggy declared.
Yesterday, in a CBS Boston article written by Micheal Hurley titled The Tom Brady Legacy Is Beyond The Scope Of Human Understanding, like Shaggy had reasoned, the author noted that Brady, “who is playing in the Super Bowl for the 10th time in 20 years”, had defied the popular maxim that “the longer you stick around, the harder it is to stand out”.
“Already a winner of six Super Bowls, Brady will be gunning for one more on Sunday night. Joining a new team for the first time in his professional life didn’t stop him from reaching this point, nor did a pandemic that drastically limited the amount of work that could take place with his new teammates prior to the start of the season,” Hurley noted of the football player.
“When it comes to the greatest winner in football history, minor inconveniences were simply not going to stop him from getting what he wants. Nothing ever has, and even at 43 years of age, that has not changed,” he added.
In furtherance of Shaggy’s arguments, Hurley noted that Brady had attained across his entire career, 230 regular-season wins (44 more than any other quarterback), 33 playoff wins (17 more than any other quarterback), and that “none of this is coincidental”.
“Tom Brady’s teams win because Tom Brady is a winner. And when the person manning the most important position in team sports exudes that level of obsessive fixation on winning, well, the results speak for themselves,” the author noted, adding that Brady’s while Brady’s indomitable drive cannot perhaps be quantified, it was something he had stated openly as a goal, ‘way back when he was merely a one-time Super Bowl champion at age 24”.