When the Last Lion Leaves: Tedy Bruschi to Announce His NFL Retirement

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Published: August 31, 2009

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... don't seem real.

They pop in and out of your lives, flickering across the screen; four-inch-tall Adonises, larger than life.

Theirs is a world where you just play—where the lights don't go out and mom is never calling you home.

They play and play, and when it's all said and done, they go to Disney World.

You stand in your backyard and count down from five. You pretend to be them. You catch imaginary interceptions from imaginary quarterbacks to win imaginary Super Bowls.

You don't think about the other side. The sheer dedication. The losses, off the field and on. The time away from their family. The brutal side of the game, of life.

Your team never loses; it just runs out of time. There's no end to consider, no after.

You don't think about those things—things like strokes. You don't even know what that word means.

Yet for many in New England just growing up with that Patriot dynasty, their first real winning team, ...

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