(Merged) NYT:Tom Brady Cannot Stop

Fencer · Jan 29, 2015

shmessy said:
This is a magnum opus. Great piece of journalism.

I actually went to school with Mark Leibovich - -Newton South HS Class of '83. We weren't close friends or anything, but I remember him as a really good kid.

Smart guy from a smart town!

PS, he's right on about Larry Bird - - HS kids in Newton would bike around his block (or borrow a parents car) just to catch a glimpse of him mowing the lawn. Sometimes there would be slow moving traffic jams. Bird didn't seem to care. Still did his own damn lawn. He lived right next to door to his agent Bob Woolf and there were no gates or hidden entrances. Just a lawn and the street. Good times.

I had a girlfriend a few years later -- who lived in Newton herself, come to think of it -- who claimed that Bird and Walton used to get high together. Any truth to that?

shmessy · Jan 29, 2015

Fencer said:
I had a girlfriend a few years later -- who lived in Newton herself, come to think of it -- who claimed that Bird and Walton used to get high together. Any truth to that?

Couldn't tell from the street. It didn't look like he was saving the grass cuttings!

PatsFanSince74 · Jan 31, 2015

A good way to kill some time before the game.

Amazing for many reasons, not the least of which it will be right in the face of Giants and Jets fans all weekend.

Brady's picture on the cover with the caption: "A season with the N.F.L.'s ageless, ruthless, peerless superstar."

My favorite quote, from the "original Tom Brady": “Sometimes we’ll go over to Tom and Gisele’s house for dinner,” Brady’s father, also named Tom, told me. “And then I’ll say afterward, ‘Where are we going for dinner?' ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?ref=magazine&_r=0

jmt57 · Jan 31, 2015

PatsFanSince74 said:
Amazing for many reasons, not the least of which it will be right in the face of Giants and Jets fans all weekend.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?ref=magazine&_r=0

Giant fans, yes.

Jet fans that actually do read limit themselves to the New York Post. The New York Times uses too many big words for that fan base.

Gronkandez · Jan 31, 2015

Fwiw this article was posted in the NYT website on Monday

Fencer · Jan 31, 2015

This is at least our third thread on the article.

But then, it's an excellent article.

DarrylS · Jan 31, 2015

All 21 pages will help me kill time as I await plane changes in an upcoming trip..

Will savor every word..

shmessy · Jan 31, 2015

Fencer said:
This is at least our third thread on the article.

But then, it's an excellent article.

Yeah, I just merged 'em

PatsFanSince74 · Jan 31, 2015

jmt57 said:
Giant fans, yes.

Jet fans that actually do read limit themselves to the New York Post. The New York Times uses too many big words for that fan base.

And there aren't enough pictures!

PatsFanSince74 · Jan 31, 2015

Fencer said:
This is at least our third thread on the article.

But then, it's an excellent article.

Sorry I missed the others. It was just so terrific to see it at the breakfast table this morning here in NYC.

Fencer · Jan 31, 2015

PatsFanSince74 said:
Sorry I missed the others. It was just so terrific to see it at the breakfast table this morning here in NYC.

No worries! Better too many links to that article than too few.

PatsFanSince74 · Jan 31, 2015

shmessy said:
This is a magnum opus. Great piece of journalism.

I actually went to school with Mark Leibovich - -Newton South HS Class of '83. We weren't close friends or anything, but I remember him as a really good kid.

Smart guy from a smart town!

PS, he's right on about Larry Bird - - HS kids in Newton would bike around his block (or borrow a parents car) just to catch a glimpse of him mowing the lawn. Sometimes there would be slow moving traffic jams. Bird didn't seem to care. Still did his own damn lawn. He lived right next to door to his agent Bob Woolf and there were no gates or hidden entrances. Just a lawn and the street. Good times.

Yes, he's a first class author. I hope he's in the running to write Brady's definitive bio after he retires; a world class player deserves a world class teller of his story.

As I think about it, Brady's is the kind of story that Richard "Ben" Cramer might have wanted to tell. His bio of Joe DiMaggio is a classic. Sadly, he died a couple of years back at 62.

PatsFanSince74 · Jan 31, 2015

Gronkandez said:
Fwiw this article was posted in the NYT website on Monday

I know. I saw it there, but didn't know that it was the Cover Story until I took the paper off my doorstep and opened it this morning.

The picture of Brady and the captioning make this edition of the NYT Magazine a "must have" collectible for all of us. I know I'm not tossing it!

Canuck · Apr 19, 2015

I found this great article by Mark Leibovich. A long time Patriot fan, he follows Brady from July 2014 to just before the Super Bowl. He interviews Brady multiple times through out the year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?_r=0

fgssand · Apr 19, 2015

Canuck said:
I found this great article by Mark Leibovich. A long time Patriot fan, he follows Brady from July 2014 to just before the Super Bowl. He interviews Brady multiple times through out the year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?_r=0

I hadn't seen this article before....great read, thanks for posting. Last line is the best line!!

PatsWickedPissah · Apr 19, 2015

Good article. I just wish this lifelong fan writer characterized the 2007 penalty correctly. It was for filming from a prohibited location, NOT filming opposing signals. Also the writer seems oblivious to the Ideal Gas Law. Typical liberal arts major who avoided science in HS.

He should have concluded with this...

Listen, and understand. Brady is out there. He can't be bargained with. He can't be reasoned with. He does not feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, ever, until your team is defeated.

Brewskies · Apr 20, 2015

Canuck said:
I found this great article by Mark Leibovich. A long time Patriot fan, he follows Brady from July 2014 to just before the Super Bowl. He interviews Brady multiple times through out the year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?_r=0

Thanks for posting very good read.

The Brandon Five · Apr 20, 2015

Canuck said:
I found this great article by Mark Leibovich. A long time Patriot fan, he follows Brady from July 2014 to just before the Super Bowl. He interviews Brady multiple times through out the year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?_r=0

He lost me here:

So much about the team was unlikable to the outside world, partly for reasons of jealousy but also for legitimate ones — cheating scandals, for starters, and a head coach who treats his public-relations duties as something akin to lice removal.

Unless he pre-emptively started disliking the Patriots for Deflategate years in advance, he is part of the low-information crowd who parrot this line.

Dragda · Apr 21, 2015

"a head coach who treats his public-relations duties as something akin to lice removal."

hahahaha

shmessy · Apr 21, 2015

Great stuff - - there was a thread on it 3 months ago when it first was published:

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...ads/merged-nyt-tom-brady-cannot-stop.1115892/

(Merged) NYT:Tom Brady Cannot Stop

Pro Bowl Player

Phoenix, AZ/Retired

PatsFans.com Supporter

Moderator

2nd Team Getting Their First Start

Pro Bowl Player

PatsFans.com Supporter

Phoenix, AZ/Retired

PatsFans.com Supporter

PatsFans.com Supporter

Pro Bowl Player

PatsFans.com Supporter

PatsFans.com Supporter

Third String But Playing on Special Teams

PatsFans.com Supporter

PatsFans.com Supporter

PatsFans.com Supporter

PatsFans.com Supporter

Yes, it's really me...

Phoenix, AZ/Retired