Fifteen years after getting drafted 199th overall, Tom Brady is making his record sixth Super Bowl appearance.
Since 2000 he has turned into the league's biggest celebrity with massive endorsement deals, a wildly successful significant other, and the ability to build $40 million mansions from scratch as a side job.
Brady earned $38 million in 2013, making him the 11th-highest-paid athlete in the world.
Source: Forbes
A huge chunk of that came from a $30 million signing bonus he got from his renegotiated Patriots contract.
Source: PFT
The contract was designed to help the Patriots' salary-cap situation. As a result, Brady's salary was $2 million in 2014.
Don't worry, he has made $152 million in his NFL career, second only to Peyton Manning among active players.
Source: Spotrac
The rest of his money comes from about $7 million worth of annual endorsements.
His most notorious endorsement: Uggs for men.
His biggest deal is with Under Armour. He even has his own logo.
In September, Under Armour signed Brady's wife, model Gisele Bundchen, to an endorsement deal.
Brady's earnings are nothing compared with Gisele's.
She made $47 million last year. She is reportedly on pace to make $1 billion in career earnings.
In 2013 the couple finished building a massive mansion in Los Angeles from scratch.
It was a totally customized, 14,000-square-foot house.
It even had a moat and a chicken coop so they could eat fresh eggs.
Source: Today
But in a surprise move, they flipped the house to Dr. Dre for $40 million months after building it.
They're still set on houses. They bought an apartment on the 47th floor of the luxury building One Madison in New York City for $14 million in 2013.
They used to live in a Boston condo but sold it for $9.2 million in the summer of 2012.
They built another house from scratch in the Boston suburb of Brookline.
Source: Boston Globe
Interestingly, houses are basically Brady's only lavish purchases.
His cars aren't too gaudy. He got in an accident once while driving a regular old Audi.
He told ESPN he was a homebody and had to talk to his friends' kids about music in order to know what's popular.
Source: ESPN
Tower of Terror is about as wild as he gets.
*Note: A previous version of this post said the ride was Splash Mountain. It's Tower of Terror.
He does show up at high-society events, though, like the Kentucky Derby.
Or the Met Ball.
Or the VIP box at Brazil's famed Carnival.
But there are no boats or planes or 20-man entourages with him.
He's the rare athlete who can actually afford to spend money like Floyd Mayweather but tends not to.
