MOBILE, Ala. — Tom Brady’s voice shook Wednesday morning when he said “I wouldn’t change a thing” as he announced his retirement “for good.” It was difficult in that moment not to wonder about Brady the human being, about the personal cost of his determination to play until age 45, about whether he actually would change something if he could go back one calendar year to his first fleeting retirement from football. When the emotion clears, though, what will be remembered about Brady’s time in Tampa Bay is not this disappointing whimper of a final season and slow trudge to the finish, but the manner in which Brady’s persistence to escape New England somehow elevated a six-time Super Bowl winner’s on-field legacy to new heights. We take it for granted with Brady because he won so often in his career: seven Super Bowls, five Super Bowl MVPs, 15 Pro Bowls, three All-Pros. We take it for granted because Brady has reigned for so long, from his sixth-round selection in the 2000 NFL Draft to Wednesday. He entered the league six years before Twitter’s first launch and on Wednesday used the 17-year-old social media platform to tell the world he’s finished. But Brady already was considered the G.O.A.T.

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