{"id":2237,"date":"2019-01-25T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2019-01-25T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:36:13","slug":"a-little-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"A little perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed this one from math class&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first 17 full years in the NFL, Tom Brady has won five Super Bowls. That&#8217;s nearly 30 percent of his seasons ending with a championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a little comparison, in his 15-year NBA career, Michael Jordan won six championships. That&#8217;s 40 percent. That&#8217;s even better, no? (And we&#8217;re not even going to look at DiMaggio or Bill Russell or anyone from that era.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So if Brady wins another Super Bowl this year that&#8217;ll give him six in 18 years. One-third of his seasons. If he wins the next year&#8211;and the year after that&#8211;he&#8217;ll have the same percentage as Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>By then he&#8217;ll be about 57 years old, but it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> something to shoot for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed this one from math class&#8230; In the first 17 full years in the NFL, Tom Brady has won five Super Bowls. That&#8217;s nearly 30 percent of his seasons ending with a championship. For a little comparison, in his 15-year &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}