Tom Brady already had four Super Bowl rings. Now he has one for his thumb, and he's cemented his legacy (again) as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. In modern America, we've learned to expect the unexpected, but even with that in mind, the Patriot's comeback came as a shock. Unless you've been watching Tom Brady over the years. "I think when you've got Tommy, you feel like there's never going to be any kind of panic in him, so there's never going to be any kind of panic in us." From Sports Illustrated: Patriots Take the Fifth in Epic Comeback.

+ Just consider this for a second. Tom Brady has now led 5 game-winning drives. Not in his career. Not in big games. In the Super Bowl. (And he led potential game winners in the two Super Bowls he lost.)

+ "Just as Atlanta's Super Bowl dreams started to merge with reality, everything changed." The Ringer on Atlanta's collapse.

+ Here's a look at Julian Edelman's miraculous catch from every angle. At the moment of that catch, Jews like me were Googling to find out if the receiver with the Jewish-sounding last name had finally given us the football legacy we crave. The answer: Damn close. (When I was a kid, I used to pretend the top 49ers were Joe Montanaberg, Dwight Clarkbaum, and Fred Deanstein.)

+ This was the first Super Bowl to go into overtime (we ran out of snacks and my family started eating dehydrated food from my emergency Go Bag), and it set several other records as well.

+ James White's Super Bowl-winning touchdown as heard on several radio and TV broadcasts (not advised listening for those who live in and around Atlanta.)

+ Bill Simmons (renown podcaster and Pat's fan) did an "emergency" postgame podcast on Sunday night.

+ Five rings. Good looks. Gisele. Tom Brady has it all. Except his game jersey, which may have been ripped off. And owner Robert Kraft has five Super Bowl wins, but only four rings. Because Vladamir Putin took one of them. (Kraft will probably get it back. He and Putin share a mutual friend.)

It seems like the general consensus is that Lady Gaga killed it in her halftime performance. And I concur. But there also seems to be a consensus that the performance was apolitical (which would make it the last apolitical thing left in America). I don't concur with that. She recited the pledge, she covered Woody Guthrie, she hugged a brown person while singing, "Why don't you stay? Stay, Stay," and she's Lady Gaga. The whole performance was political.

+ And the ads were pretty political too.

"Ten former high-ranking diplomatic and national security officials, nearly 100 Silicon Valley tech companies, more than 280 law professors, and a host of civil liberties and other organizations have formally lent their support to the legal bid to block President Trump's immigration order." The push to permanently ban the ban is picking up steam. The next legal stop for the executive order is the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where a decision is expected within a week.

+ Trump attacked the latest judge to rule against the order: "If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!"

+ "Dutcher said he continues to support Trump's views on strong borders and curbing illegal immigration, but said his experience taught him that 'refugees were a different thing entirely.'" For a reality check, let's head to Omaha, Nebraska and see how Syrian refugees are getting along with their neighbors.

Word that Kellyanne Conway had invented the Bowling Green Massacre left the Trump administration with a 7-10 split. So the president is going for a spare. On Monday, he asserted that the media is (for some reason) covering up terror attacks: "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that." (If truth is a strike, that was a gutter ball.)

+ It turns out that the MSNBC interview was not the first time Kellyanne Conway referred to the Bowling Green Massacre.

+ Related: Polls that are negative about Trump are fake news.

+ "Maybe it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, but somehow these hate creeps have been less shy about their beliefs. They've been emboldened." When the massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax.

"Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president's dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump's anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban." That's just one of the amazing items in an amazing piece of reporting (made possible, in part, because of an amazing pattern of leaks from the White House). From the NYT: Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles.

"Children were ignored, or worse, punished. Allegations were not investigated. Priests and religious [brothers] were moved. The parishes or communities to which they were moved knew nothing of their past. Documents were not kept, or they were destroyed. Secrecy prevailed, as did cover-ups." An Australian commission just released its report on child abuse within the Catholic Church. And the numbers are staggering. From Buzzfeeed: 7% Of Australian Catholic Priests Abused Children.

"I've never seen so many people simultaneously reach into their bags and pockets looking for tissues and Purell. Within about two minutes, all the Nazi symbolism was gone." The NYT on a group of strangers on the subway who scrubbed away a bunch of anti-Semitic graffiti. This story is inspiring, but don't kid yourself. We're gonna need a hell of a lot of Purell.

"Anthropologists like to say that to observe a culture is usually, in some small way, to change it. A similar dictum holds true for Bourdain's show. Whenever Bourdain discovers a hole-in-the-wall culinary gem, he places it on the tourist map, thereby leaching it of the authenticity that drew him to it in the first place. 'It's a gloriously doomed enterprise,' he acknowledged. 'I'm in the business of finding great places, and then we f*ck them up.'" (My kids have the same goal on family vacations.) The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe on Anthony Bourdain's Moveable Feast.

"If I'm still doing this next year as a full-time job, I'm going to be honest: I failed myself as a content creator." According to Alyssa Bereznak, "for many ridesharing drivers, getting behind the wheel is just a way to market their real ambitions." Inside the Uber Side Hustle. (Now, I'm depressed. This newsletter is actually my end game.)

+ Uber drivers could someday need a new skill. Flying. From Bloomberg: Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars. Look, up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's surge pricing....

"If there are people who can't stand cats -- and it seems there are many -- one reason may be envy." What cats can teach us about how to live.

+ Vice on dating: I Asked a Psychopath How to Stop Caring About Rejection.

+ Kanye is no longer a Trump fan.