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From Summer School to the Super Bowl for Brady, Ryan

At Philly’s venerable Penn Charter, they remember Matt Ryan as a low-key, egalitarian leader for whom a team win, not stats or stature, was the priority. The Falcons QB has carried that ethos all the way to Super Bowl 51.

MOBILE, Ala. — Back in July, I visited Tom House and Adam Dedeaux in California to try and figure why 13 of the NFL’s starting quarterbacks had gone to a couple former pitchers to fine-tune their throwing mechanics and round themselves out as athletes.

Six months later, two of those 13 are facing off in Super Bowl 51.