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Brady insists he has no animosity toward Goodell

Geoff Burke / USA TODAY Sports

Tom Brady's exceptional 2016 season appears to have been fueled by the four-game suspension he served to start the year, but you'll never hear the New England Patriots quarterback admit that.

After setting the league on fire with his 28-to-2 touchdown-to-interception ratio in the regular season and following that up by booking a ticket to Super Bowl LI with his 384-yard, three-touchdown performance Sunday, Brady insisted he's not trying to get back at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. He's not even pining to have the man who punished him for the Deflategate saga hand him the Lombardi Trophy - and, potentially, the Super Bowl MVP award - on Feb. 5.

"I have no animosity towards anybody. I'm a very loving person," Brady told Gary Myers of the New York Daily News after Sunday's game when asked about the revenge opportunity. "I want to win for my family and I want to win for my teammates and my coaches and our fans."

Regardless of whether he's guided by that extra motivation or, at the age of 39, he just continues to find new ways to outclass the rest of the field, Brady has a chance to eclipse Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw by winning his fifth Super Bowl.

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