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Patriots fans conflicted ahead of Tom Brady's return to New England
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BOSTON — Childhood hero or hometown team? G.O.A.T. or local pride? Tom Brady or the Patriots?
These are the choices many New Englanders will have to make Sunday night when Brady – along with his Tampa Bay Buccaneers – returns to Foxborough.
And they were already feeling conflicted three days before kickoff.
“Because that was, like, your icon and your hero growing up,” Anthony Lasillo, a 27-year-old lifelong Patriots fan from from Whitman, Mass., said while out for a walk on a crisp autumn Thursday in Boston. "So You always want to root for him, but the die-hard Boston sports fans that we are can’t root against our own team.
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