Best ‘Old Guy’ Seasons in Sports Since 2015

Look, there are only about a half-dozen options here. Tom Brady is the absolute gold standard of late-career excellence.

As a member of the New England Patriots, he finished second in MVP voting at 38 years old in 2015, accomplished the same and won a Super Bowl in 2016, earned the MVP in 2017 and won a Super Bowl in 2018. Brady left for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 and, at 43, propelled the Bucs to their second NFL title.

My pick is the 2021 campaign simply because he was 44 freaking years old in his last top-level season. Brady passed for 5,316 yards—the third-best total in NFL history—and a league-high 43 touchdowns. Tampa went 13-4 and won the NFC South as Brady was the MVP runner-up.

Brady, incredibly, could be a Hall of Fame selection based solely on what he did after turning 38 years old.