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Bill Plaschke: It's not so easy to dislike Tom Brady

MINNEAPOLIS - The cheater talks lovingly about his children. The smug one proclaims the greatness of his parents. The robot spins yarns about spending summers on a Minnesota farm.

Something really strange is happening this week on this Super Bowl's frozen plains.

Tom Brady is thawing out.

When the week began, with the New England Patriots' Brady playing quarterback in this game for the record eighth time, much of the country was like, him again?

Now it's more like, who again?

Just as he is closing in on goodbye, Brady, 40, has decided to say hello, revealing a side of himself that has little

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