Poor Tom Brady. After the Falcons leaped ahead to a 21-3 first-half lead on the Patriots, Tom Brady could not have been happy.

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Unfortunately for him, he's the quarterback of one of the most-hated team in the NFL who was also at the center of a deflated-football scandal, one of many cheating scandals involving the Patriots. So Twitter had no mercy for him.

Witness:

Unfortunately, it may be Tom Brady who gets the last laugh at the rest of us making snarky jokes on Twitter.

Post-game update: These tweets are less funny now.

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