I respect the past and appreciate that wonderful stuff happened before TV, before me. Games were exciting and athletes great long before ESPN’s “SportsCenter” came along. The world was in living color before TV was, believe it or not.
No, what is happening now in sports isn’t necessarily the best thing ever seen just because it is right in front of us and discussed and dissected ad naseum to lend a false gravitas.
Ah, but sometimes it is! Sometimes a golden age of anything can be toughest to see when you’re surrounded by it.
Tom Brady is the greatest ever, and we needn’t wait for a retrospective upon his retirement to know that.