Super Bowl LII will hardly be the first time Tom Brady has traveled to Minnesota. As the Patriots quarterback recently mentioned, his mother grew up in a small town outside Minneapolis, where some of his family still lives.
Well, The Athletic’s Chad Graff visited that small town — Browerville, population: 753.
Graff’s conversations with Brady’s relatives serve as another reminder that he wasn’t always the suave superstar athlete that so many New Englanders perceive him to be.
“We had to drag him wherever we’d go,” Paul Johnson told Graff, recalling his youngest cousin’s visits to the family farm, during which “Tommy” was sent tumbling down sand hills and beaten up during Wiffle ball games.