Tom Brady’s NFL return is both understandable and potentially foolish

The quarterback still believes he has plenty to offer his team. But it is often the game, rather than the player, that decides when a career is over

Apparently, we haven't learned anything from horror movies. If we had, we would have remembered that the villain always returns the very second the world believes they are finally vanquished. So, it was on a random Sunday night in March - during the hours normally set aside in the US for college basketball discussion - that Tom Brady announced he is returning to the NFL.

These past two months I've realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands," Brady wrote on his Twitter account. That time will come. But it's not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I'm coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business. LFG."