We Drafted Our Heroes and Argued
Hero Draft, Part 1 — Football. Three men each draft one football hero and defend the pick. Noah takes TomBrady and argues for the man who said no to everything else for one thing. Sam takes Pat Tillman, who walkedaway from a $3.6 million contract and never came back. Brad takes Peyton Manning and makes the case forthe integrated life — the man who was excellent without letting the rest of it fall away. Along the way: signalversus noise, whether the cost of greatness is a feature or a bug, why rags to riches is the easier story, theman who's always second, and the question none of them fully…
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