Thread by @TheSportsHernia

This thread was originally started on the morning of 1/20/19, inspired by the ensuing showdown between the Pats and Chiefs and probably because everyone else was busy writing Tom Brady's NFL obituary. But NE won in OT and 2 rings later, here we are, TB12 officially retired...

So let's renew in a familiar place, possibly one TOO familiar, because Tom Brady paying homage to the Lloyd Christmas cut was as familiar a scene as Tom Brady wielding a trophy at a freakin duck boat parade.

But while we celebrate the familiar, one must not forget Golf Tom Brady, which of course had two faces. Before Gisele: Hair betraying him, coolness nowhere to be found...

And then there was Gisele Golf TB12: Rebellious, collarless and -- gasp!!! -- a backwards cap paired with aviators and a DGAF aura for daaaaays....

The "constantly-doing-a-magazine-ad" version of Brady is one often forgotten, but this is a prime example. To this very day, no one knows who authorized this unauthorized Old Navy shoot.

Believe it not, though unfortunately smothered to death by all the glitz and glam, once upon a time there WAS an Ogre Tom Brady. Seriously, he looks like the muscle guy that grunts a lot and knows, at most, three words. Unbelievable.

Appropriately following the ogre stage would of course be Courtroom Sketch Tom Brady, the one where he morphed into a cat-wolf that spent waaaay too much time in Kramer's cigar room.

Then, well, then there was this from 2014 that would probably slingshot 2022 Twitter to the moon and back and around the world in dissecting what exactly TB12 is conveying here.

Here's the part where we hop aboard the Hat Tom Brady train, for better or worse. Tommy opting for the ill-advised "let's be Cam Newton for a day" was less spectacular. Two shoulders all but begging for parrots, alas, were left empty.

In possibly one of the worst fumble(s) of his career, he actually decided to do this. And this.

But in between hat fumbles there was always a tremendous GFY entrance with great assistance from a leather jacket.

Or just a straight death stare from hell with Blue Steel doin all the driving.

Thanks to Pete Davidson, Tom -- among many others -- would eventually fall victim to the rather unfortunate labeling of #ButtholeEyes. This postgame hellshot is from 2018 yet somehow he looks five years older than he does today.

Not to be forgotten before we get too far down the line would be TB12's infamous and barely alive tribute to Morty Seinfeld and "The Executive."

It DID have its happy moments too, though. #TomBrady

when Tom Brady shockingly left New England for Tampa Bay it's safe to say people got a little too excited, a little too quickly. Yes, that's right, a No. 0 bobblehead with Carlos Boozer hair.

Although before he left the Pats we're not just gonna sit here and pretend his hair wasn't getting the works. This is Paintjob City to the point you might wanna wear a hat for a couple weeks before that thing settles down.

In yet another shocking twist to the ever-evolving look, Tom Brady moved to Tampa and seemingly -- almost instantaneously -- morphed into a hunched over, neckless golfer discussing a critical Par 3.

But just like any other Tom Brady story, the comeback was inevitable. Sadly, said comeback included a promise necklace he received in 7th grade.

I know, Tom, I know. This is some bullshit.

Remember the golfer discussing that critical Par 3? I sure as hell don't because this is that same dude.

Now it would be impossible to close things out without discussing Surfin' Tom Brady channeling some seriously concerning Dexter vibes.

as well as "OMG waterslide weeeeeeeee" Tom Brady

AND Scooter Tom Brady, both the neighborhood bully edition and the coffee shop rollup edition.

For now, though, we'll come to a pause and dial it back to Ann Arbor where it all began: An all too familiar Lloyd Christmas ode with the bangs -- clearly at odds with one another -- splitting the uprights.