Every single year we get a new Super Bowl to add to this list. But every single year, it seems, we get a new Super Bowl to add to the top of this list. Such is the nature of the modern NFL championship game: the league's on-field and roster-construction rules and have resulted in close games and increasing parity.

When Brady peers down from his Fox perch on Super Sunday, he will find himself talking about the one and only quarterback who, across the next decade, is on an unmistakable trajectory to displace