Brady prepared to succeed, prepared to live with failure

There is no other team sport that is more reliant on one position consistently throughout a contest as a gridiron team is on its quarterback writes Kieran Shannon.

You’re a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It’s the top spot, kid. It’s the guy who takes the fall. It’s the guy everybody’s looking at first — the leader of a team — who will support you when they understand you. Who break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. ’Cause you make them believe. That’s a quarterback.’ — Al Pacino as Tony D’Amato Any Given Sunday

We were spoiled last weekend, between Paris and Minneapolis. One event offered up a great finish; the other, a great match, from start to end. Combined, they produced three quarterback displays for the ages, in the heroics of Tom Brady, Nick Foles, and Johnny Sexton.