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Minnesota claims Brady: Welcome to Bradytown, Minn., second home to Patriots QB Tom Brady duluthnewstribune.com BROWERVILLE, Minn. — Hidden in the heart of Minnesota, about 25 miles north of I-94, sits a town so small almost nobody had ever heard of it. Until last Sunday. After the New England Patriots completed a comeback over the Jacksonville Jaguars to punch their ticket to yet another Super Bowl, future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady took the stage alongside CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz. In front of a live viewing audience of 44.1 million people, that Nantz introduced the world to Browerville, Minn. More than 1,500 miles west of that stage, the town of fewer than 800 people cheered. Take a drive two and a half hours northwest of the Twin Cities, up I-94 and through miles and miles of majestic countryside with hoarfrost lining the sunkissed trees on US-71, and you’ll run into the previously unknown place that suddenly everybody is talking about. It’s quintessential small town Minnesota. Well, three blocks of it, anyway. Main Street is lined with shops ranging from Spinny’s Sparkling Car Wash and Laundromat to Steve’s Country Foods, home of the beef sticks everyone raves about. Other town staples include Christ the King Church, Browerville City Hall and the Cafe of Browerville, where locals line up for breakfast at 6 a.m. before returning later to shoot dice in the back room. Browerville Liquor, the town’s only bar, isn’t even open on Sundays. There are only three names in Browerville out-of-towners might recognize: Casey’s General Store, Hardware Hank … and Tom Brady. MINNESOTA ROOTS Before Tom Brady was a five-time Super Bowl winner with a supermodel wife, he was Tommy, the kid with the bowl cut. His mom, Galynn, grew up in Browerville, and the Bradys came back for a few weeks each summer to stay with Tom’s grandparents, Gordon and Bernice Johnson, at the family’s modest farmhouse. It sits a couple miles north of downtown Browerville at the end of a long gravel driveway. There’s a white barn, where Grandpa Gordon would milk 30 to 40 cows with the help of Brady and his cousins. “We’d go fishing in the summer, ice fishing in the winter, and milk the cows with my grandpa and just kind of tend to the farm,” Brady told WEEI Radio in Boston. “It was a great experience for me, born in California.” Paul Johnson, Brady’s older cousin, said as kids they’d run around the farm, play wiffle ball in the yard, ride bikes in nearby gravel pits and go catch as many fish as possible then bring them back to be fried for that night’s meal. Don Lemm, an 86-year-old Browerville native, said he knew Brady as “a little snot-nosed” kid running around town. “He was an awful mischievous little guy,” said Gary Johnson, Brady’s uncle and Paul’s dad. “We would take the kids out (on the lake) and, my god, the next thing I know the Brady kids are in the water and I don’t know if they can swim or not. It scared the hell out of me.” Johnson said Brady was “always game to try stuff,” recalling a time when Grandpa Gordon told the kids not to “mess with” his dog when it was eating. “And that’s when Tommy went in there and he got bit,” Johnson said. “He cried like a baby. It’s hard to imagine that that little kid went on to become the greatest quarterback of all time.”