[Baynative]

I know this isn't about New England, but I am posting this because I like to hear about what goes on in the heads and hearts of winners.

FOXBORO (CBS) – New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, speaking from Gillette Stadium on Friday, remembers back to when he first met Tom Brady. The 22-year-old Brady was just as confident as the 34-year-old version that takes the field every Sunday for the Patriots.

“I still have the image of Tom Brady coming down the old Foxboro stadium steps with that pizza box under his arm, a skinny beanpole, and when he introduced himself to me and said ‘Hi Mr. Kraft,’ he was about to say who he was, but I said ‘I know who you are, you’re Tom Brady. You’re our sixth round draft choice,’” recalled Kraft.

“And he looked me in the eye and he said ‘I’m the best decision this organization has ever made.’ It looks like he could be right.”

[Rummyfan]

“And he looked me in the eye and he said ‘I’m the best decision this organization has ever made.’ It looks like he could be right.”

Indeed. I was in the Boston area right after 9/11 on business, listening to sports-talk radio. It was 'Tom Brady who's he?' The Patriots were 0 - 2 and Drew Bledsoe had just been injured and knocked out for the season. Could have gotten fantastic odds on the Pats even making the playoffs. Enter Tom Brady. Yes the Pats got a very beneficial call in their playoff game against the Raiders, but the rest they did themselves. And in the seasons afterward.