It’s been long-decided Tom Brady is one of the best quarterbacks to ever play in the NFL. Trust me, I’m familiar. Throughout my senior year of college, I assisted a mentor of mine with a major portion of the reporting for a biography of Brady he was writing.
For an entire year of my life, I thought about him nearly non-stop.
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