Yankees Editorial-The Bronx is Boiling: Derek Brady Edition

The New England Patriots are Super Bowl Champions again. What an exciting Super Bowl, fans. The two number one seeds went head-to-head and delivered quite the performance. The game ended on the one yard line, and Tom Brady is a world champ for the fourth time.

Could Derek Jeter and Brady be anymore similar? The career paths have been eerily the same as Jeter walked off into the sunset this past season and Mr. Brady probably isn’t too far behind. The Bronx is boiling and I need to blow some steam.

TOM JETER AND DEREK BRADY

Though Brady is three years younger and came on the scene while Jeter was already winning his fourth championship, their career paths started off the same. Jeter, who got his first taste of the big show in 1995, didn’t stick in his first season. When he returned as a rookie in 1996, he took the world by storm, winning Rookie of the Year and quickly becoming the face of the Yankees’ 90s dynasty. The New York Yankees would go on to of course win four championships in Jeter’s first five years. 80 percent of his young career would be showered in ticker tape.

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Young Brady was much of the same. He rode the pine behind Drew Bledsoe his first season as a relatively unknown back-up. The following season, his in what would become his true rookie year, Brady took the world by storm (wait, didn’t I write that already?). He would take an 0-2 Patriots team on an 11-3 rampage to start the Pats 2000s dynasty. He would become the face (and teased in a similar way as Jeter as the “pretty boy”) of New England who would win three of the next four Super Bowls. 75 percent of Brady’s young career would be hoisting the ol’ Lombardi.

Then it got rough for both superstars. The Yankees, like the Patriots, would remain atop their divisions for the next several seasons, however their luck in the post season would run dry. Sure, the reached the would both reach the championship twice over that “down” span, but they would lose both. Both loses would come at the hands of underdogs, teams that were never really given a chance against the mighty Yanks and Pats.

Then last night, after a nine year wait from his last championship, the same amount of time Jeter had to wait from his fourth championship to his 2009 championship, Brady brought the Pats another Super Bowl trophy. In remarkable fashion, the Pats stopped the Seahawks on the one yard line in a thriller. I’m still not sure why Beast Mode didn’t get that ball, but that’s neither here nor there.

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Jeter sits in the top 10 in two of baseball’s most coveted historical stats: runs and hits. His run at 3,000 was well documented and every hit he had to surpass yet another legend from baseball’s past was widely known. Similarly, Brady sits in the Top 10 in two of football’s biggest stats: yards and touchdowns. His astonishing 2007 season may have been erased from the record books by Peyton Manning in 2014, but it will not be forgotten.

There is no love lost between the cities of New York and Boston. Whether it is the Giants upsetting the Pats twice in the Super Bowl or not-so distant memories of 2004 for Yankees fans, the two cities rarely feel pity for one another. Strangely enough, two of their most beloved heroes have walked the same path. And both will continue to walk that same path right into the Hall of Fame.

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