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    Tom Brady in postgame daze of disappointment after another Super Bowl loss...

    INDIANAPOLIS – Tom Brady sat facing his locker, his head down and draped in a white towel, staring at the space between his cleats.
    He was in full uniform. He was in full thought. There were the plays that hadn’t been made. There were the opportunities not seized. There was the Super Bowl that had slipped away, 21-17 to the New York Giants. Again, the Giants. Again.
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    Tom Brady is comforted by his wife, Gisele Bundchen.
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    It was 10:04 p.m.
    The minutes ticked by and Brady didn’t move. Across the Patriots’ locker room there was dejection and depression, hushed whispers and thousand-yard stares. This is the pain of almost having everything. This was the hurt of winding up with nothing. All the money these guys make, all the glory they receive, it does nothing in times like this, the losing locker room after the biggest of games.
    Nobody was taking it quite like Brady though. Others slipped out of their uniforms or headed to the media interview area in full dress. Some shuffled off to the showers or patted each other on the back.
    Not Brady. He just kept staring at the floor.
    His longtime physical therapist, Alex Guerrero, sat in an empty locker next to him and tried to offer words of comfort. They had no impact. Brady never moved.

    It was 10:12 p.m.

    Robert Kraft, the team owner who Brady wanted this fourth Super Bowl for so desperately, came by, saw the carnage and went to Brady. Kraft bent over, put a hand on his shoulder pads and pulled the quarterback in. He spoke softly in his ear. He then hugged Brady’s head and finally let go.
    Brady nodded but never looked up. The towel was still in place.

    It was 10:14 p.m.

    Kraft retreated and ran into Patriots coach Bill Belichick, one wearing a look more stunned than the other. This long, twisting, seven-year quest for another Super Bowl had been in their grasp. They had the ball and the lead with four minutes to play. They had the Giants on the ropes.
    The defense had proven resilient. Brady had shaken off early mistakes to put together a brilliant 16-for-16 and two-touchdown passing stretch. All they needed to make was one more play. On offense. On defense. Somewhere. Anywhere.
    It never happened. Instead they marched off Lucas Oil Field with Giants confetti falling above them, another Super Bowl dashed by the New Yorkers.
    How? Why? There’s no simple answer.


    Not now. Maybe not ever. The last Super Bowl loss haunted them, hung over them, motivated them to get back. They know that pain too well to think this will be any different. The first night is always the longest. They don’t get much shorter though.
    They talked briefly and split, Belichick to change, Kraft to nowhere in particular.
    He looked back at Brady, still in his state of disaster.
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    Brady’s head was down but he begun tugging on some loose tape around his right ankle. He unraveled slowly. He stood briefly, grabbed a half-full bottle of Vitamin Water Zero lemonade and took a swig. The towel finally fell off his head and down onto his shoulder pads and eventually the floor. He sat back down, hard.
    Kraft came over for another hug. Another couple words.

    It was 10:18 p.m.

    Brady began to pull at his shoulder pads. Guerrero helped slide them off. He stood again and began glancing around the mostly empty locker room. He focused on nothing in particular. His eyes were red.
    He’s supposedly too cool, or that’s what rival fans say. He’s supposedly too much of a pretty boy, or that’s what they mock. Not here. The guy with everything looked empty.

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    Do you think Gisele let him put it in her butt after the game?

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    that would make him happy again


    1) 1st Offensive Play Safety(cost us 9 points and put D on heels immediately)
    2) Another throw it up for Grabs bomb to a limping Gronk that results in INT


    Two plays, and chalk up another loss....He hasnobody else to blame but his own mediocre play.


    Great reporting.

    Told the facts in a story like manner.

    No bias. No bullshit.

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