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Everyone has their own way of dealing with trauma.Some people scream, others cry and occasionally someone will combine the two to start an emo band.Recently, I had my own tragedy to deal with, but I was able to cope with it in my own way.You see, I love the Green Bay Packers more than you love your own mother. Really.In my mind, rooting for the Pack is the most important thing I do during the day. Breathing is second. Somewhere distantly down the line is this whole school and studying thing my parents keep nagging me about. My calendar features 365 days of Brett Favre, I keep an A.J. Hawk doll – uh, I mean action figure – by my bed, and my computer desktop background is a close-up of Aaron Rodgers standing proud: clipboard, visor and all. I’ve even pondered the logistics of making a real cheesehead hat, whittled from an actual 30-pound block of cheddar.So you can imagine my heartbreak after we lost Ice Bowl II: The Legacy of the Lesser-Manning.It was terrible. I moped around for days; I couldn’t watch TV or pick up a newspaper; the image of Tom Coughlin’s face, shining brighter red than the streetlight outside my window, was engraved in my mind.So to deal with my misery, I did the same thing I always do when I’m feeling down: I lashed out at someone more attractive than I am. So for all you Chargers fans out there who feel my pain, here’s my list of the top 10 reasons to hate Tom Brady:No. 10: Your sister thinks he’s cute.No. 9: He can be on three different magazine covers in a year (Sports Illustrated, GQ and People). The only other quarterback to pull that off was Michael Vick (ESPN Magazine, K9 Enthusiast and Obscene Hand-Gestures Weekly).No. 8: He gets paid millions of dollars to have women swoon whenever he takes off his shirt. Girls faint when they see me with my shirt off too, but it’s a result of the blinding light reflecting off my pale skin.No. 7: The “tuck rule” game: I’m the last guy in the world to root for Oakland, so when one play can single handedly make the entire nation (outside of New England) unite in support and sympathy for the Raiders, there is clearly an evil force at work.No. 6: Your mom thinks he’s handsome.No. 5: He can get his hot former model-turned-actress girlfriend pregnant, and before she gets morning sickness, he can get a new, even hotter supermodel girlfriend.No. 4: The lack of hilarious commercials he’s in. Peyton Manning is out there working his butt off, putting out eight or nine new TV ads a week, yet all we get from Brady is a picture of him shirtless, in a fur coat, posing for magazine cologne ads.No. 3: Your girlfriend thinks he’s hot.No. 2: That look on his face when Bill Belichick sends out the punter – like his dad just let his big brother have the front seat on the way to Chuck E. Cheese’s.No. 1: You can’t help but notice he’s a good looking dude.

– David Pope is a journalism sophomore.

– This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Daily Aztec.