Tom Brady vs. Michael Jordan

Tom Brady vs. Michael Jordan for greatest GOAT: The scorecard

1-26-2018=27,45,65, 20

71 =20th prime

Who is the greatest American male athlete of all time? 

191=43rd prime

461=89th prime-  421=82nd prime

New England Patriots=82

The Scorecard=65,119

It is an awfully silly thing to ask on one hand, but an important question on the other. Sports fans cannot get enough of these debates, even if there is no discernible way to win them.

How do you compare team-sport athletes to individuals? Athletes who competed before integration to those who played afterward? Olympic champions to non-Olympians?

A current New England Patriots quarterback to a retired Chicago Bulls 2-guard?

You need to have fun with it. Last spring, after a phone conversation with Tom Brady about his future, I posited Michael Jordan's legacy was Brady's final frontier. I thought he had surpassed all NFL players before him, not merely quarterbacks, and figured if he was as serious about playing into his mid-to-late 40s as he said he was, the ultimate in unofficial titles -- GOAT of GOATs=126,45,54,171 (18th Triangular) (1/26) -- would be well within his reach.

Eight months later, a 40-year-old Brady is back in the Super Bowl as the likely league MVP and on the cusp of a sixth championship and a possible fifth Super Bowl MVP. He just won his eighth conference title in a dozen(71) attempts with a dozen(71) stitches in his throwing hand. So, yeah, Brady is very much in a conversation that needs some ground rules.

Tom Brady vs. Michael Jordan=99,117,108,144

Thirteen=45,54,90,99,117