The sight of Tom Brady laying on his back showed fans who have followed his pro career from it’s beginning something we’ve never seen before—the ugly sight of The King of the World with abject fear and pain in his eyes. Brady The Fearless scared out of his wits. That was a wake-up call if I’ve ever seen one. Brady, through his words and actions in his 8 years in New England, had seemed somehow impervious to the same hammer of the Gods which falls at random on other, more mortal, players, but we got reminded in a hurry that the guy is actually made of flesh and bone. He didn’t always win, didn’t always save the damsel in distress or the kitten up a tree, didn’t always maintain an ethereal cool and composure, but did it often enough so that we weren’t really sure if he was a regular human being or not.
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