Article: Just throw the ball, Tom Brady: this man will go down in history as the greatest football player never to go down in history and he's still smiling.

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The back of Tom Brady's house sits, pressed not thirty feet from the canyon road, sealed up tight as a shipping container. The palpitant Los Angeles traffic doesn't reach way up here, so the occasional passing car slows for a better look at the limo, doors gull-winged, its mass spread diagonally across the smallish driveway. Crumpled-paper tumbleweeds blow down the street. The world looks, as it sometimes does in L.A., even halfway up the valley, a little jenky and unrepaired. The limo driver rocks; the soles of his shoes rasp the concrete. Minutes tick past, both yawning and reliably small in their measure, the way they do in church before ...

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