In the real world, Brady would return to madden coins the Super Bowl that season and beat a spirited final quarter against the Carolina Panthers, whose Jake Delhomme was being eyed as the next Brady--that would prove unsuccessful. In 2003, and despite two Lombardi trophies by that point there was no way to know how high he'd raise the bar one day.

The team would enter a world class organization, Brady would kick off the defensively-minded Madden 2005 season as one of the top players in the game that made the Patriots an essential team to play online head-to-head competition when players were eager to test the brand-new Hit Stick on defenseless ball carriers. Brady would go on to defeat opponents like the Donovan McNabb- and Andy Reid-led Eagles in the Super Bowl, clinching the Patriots their place to become the next NFL powerhouse.

It could also turn out to be Brady's last Lombardi for several years, despite two stunning losses in the years ahead. But even by then it would have been logical to call him a Hall of Famers. As the late legendary Chris Wesseling often said of Brady, you could carve his career into three parts in which each represented a different person, each would be included in the Hall of Fame. Brady's consistent success is the subject of a novel in the mid-'90s.

Madden 06 kicked off the period when Brady's Madden numbers would reflect his consistent dominance of NFL's passing averages annually even if he went without winning a Super Bowl victory for a couple of years (poor player). With 4,110 yards of passing that year, Brady would lead the league in this statistic for the first time in his entire career.

That number pales in comparison to the modern-day pass-happy NFL totals, which would only be placed 11th in a list of 2022 totals--but part of the Brady story is his ability to cheap Madden 22 coins adapt to the times. It's unlikely to be his last time leading the category.