It is true that no player is bigger than his sport. If Tom Brady leads the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory on Sunday, however, he will come closer to being so in football than even Michael Jordan ever was in basketball.

But I fear another Super Bowl championship, especially in his first season with a new team, will give sports writers just cause to hail Brady as the greatest professional athlete of all time. This is why I’m praying Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs chop him down to size.

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