Three games into his second season at the University of Michigan and Tom Brady finally got onto the field. It was late in the Wolverines' blowout victory over UCLA, but the chance to play, the chance to show what he could do after all the waiting and all the practice was coveted nonetheless.
So Brady took the snap, dropped back and heaved a ball to the left. It went directly into the hands of Phillip Ward, a UCLA linebacker, who promptly raced 45 yards the other way for a touchdown.
“Horrified,” Brady would say years later.