Is Tom Brady too big of a celebrity?
It’s an interesting question for sure. The Patriots’ QB has seldom been heard from since suffering a season-ending knee injury against the Chiefs in the first game of the regular season.
In fact, outside of a brief charity appearance in Foxboro around Thanksgiving, we haven’t heard a single thing from Tom Terrific all year until his brief interview with a Toronto radio station last week.
So what gives? Why can’t Brady just do an interview or two, address his millions of fans and legions of New England followers and give us an update on how he’s doing? I understand the Patriots’ clandestine approach to injuries, but c’mon, as the face of the franchise you have some type of obligation to the masses. Right?
Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so. So much attention is paid to Tom and Gisele and the ongoing are they engaged, are they not engaged saga. TMZ and Access Hollywood follow him in the streets of New York and in grocery store parking lots in California. We know every time he visits his son, or goes to Costa Rica, but we can’t find out about his infection in his surgically repaired knee.
I can rationalize his lack of appearances during the season. It would be hard for him to be seen in the locker room, most likely drawing all the questions away for his teammates who actually are playing. And appearing on the sidelines during games would probably be a distraction too. The last thing the Krafts and the Patriots’ brass want is the camera glued on one player for the entire game. But after the season is different. At least it should be.
It’s just a little tiresome, to be honest. The line between quarterback and celebrity is blurred to begin with, but this takes it to an entire new level. Tony Romo is accountable, even when he’s whisking Jessica and Witten to Cabo. Brett Favre, say what you want but at least you can pin him down. As for Brady…good luck. Osama bin Laden is easier to find. Is he in New England? New York? California? Who knows…
Will he play this season? Is his knee OK? Again, it’s like tossing darts blindfolded – you just have no idea. So is Brady too big of a celeb?
The signs were there last season, when he was seen shaking hands with Pat O’Brien (former host of The Insider and Access Hollywood) before the Super Bowl against the Giants, and again at the beginning of this season when he was mysteriously prevented from playing a down of preseason football.
It’s an interesting question for sure. The Patriots’ QB has seldom been heard from since suffering a season-ending knee injury against the Chiefs in the first game of the regular season.
In fact, outside of a brief charity appearance in Foxboro around Thanksgiving, we haven’t heard a single thing from Tom Terrific all year until his brief interview with a Toronto radio station last week.
So what gives? Why can’t Brady just do an interview or two, address his millions of fans and legions of New England followers and give us an update on how he’s doing? I understand the Patriots’ clandestine approach to injuries, but c’mon, as the face of the franchise you have some type of obligation to the masses. Right?
Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so. So much attention is paid to Tom and Gisele and the ongoing are they engaged, are they not engaged saga. TMZ and Access Hollywood follow him in the streets of New York and in grocery store parking lots in California. We know every time he visits his son, or goes to Costa Rica, but we can’t find out about his infection in his surgically repaired knee.
I can rationalize his lack of appearances during the season. It would be hard for him to be seen in the locker room, most likely drawing all the questions away for his teammates who actually are playing. And appearing on the sidelines during games would probably be a distraction too. The last thing the Krafts and the Patriots’ brass want is the camera glued on one player for the entire game. But after the season is different. At least it should be.
It’s just a little tiresome, to be honest. The line between quarterback and celebrity is blurred to begin with, but this takes it to an entire new level. Tony Romo is accountable, even when he’s whisking Jessica and Witten to Cabo. Brett Favre, say what you want but at least you can pin him down. As for Brady…good luck. Osama bin Laden is easier to find. Is he in New England? New York? California? Who knows…
Will he play this season? Is his knee OK? Again, it’s like tossing darts blindfolded – you just have no idea. So is Brady too big of a celeb?
The signs were there last season, when he was seen shaking hands with Pat O’Brien (former host of The Insider and Access Hollywood) before the Super Bowl against the Giants, and again at the beginning of this season when he was mysteriously prevented from playing a down of preseason football.
Still, this is our Tom Brady. The 6th-round draft pick, humble no-name working-class wonderboy, unheralded out of Michigan. Where is he???
Find that man.
Find that man.
---Nick
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It is really mind bottling (that's for you Wolfe) how little we know about the status of Brady.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I'm worried if he will ever be the same...not just because of the injury but becauase of the life he leads now.
If any of us had millions of dollars, and was banging one of the hottest girls on the planet it would be very tough for us to be motivated to go play football again, shit it would be tough for me to even blog.
This is where u guys forget Tom Brady isn't like me or you, and that's why he is where he is. He's a warrior who had never missed a game since his insertion in the lineup, even playing the SB with a really bad ankle not once but twice (Rams). I'll bet my life Brady has all of these articles wondering whether he's happy with Gisele and ready to retire taped inside the Foxboro workout rooms (where Micheal Smith reports he's been) as he re-habs the knee. Does everyone forget Palmer had a worse knee injury in the 1st round of the playoffs and played in the 1st pre-season game? Brady will be fine.
ReplyDeletePalmers knee injury was not worse all and all. Dude did not have an infection. He did not have multiple procedures after the inital procedure. Multiple operations is no joke. Infection risks the integrity of the graft used as well. Not saying that Brady is done. But his rehab has not been smooth by any means. How many games has Palmer won since Pitt took his ACL from him in the playoffs that year. Cinci on paper hadnt changed all that much.
ReplyDeleteDon't give me the how games as Palmer won argument, that team is garbage. And by all accounts that I believe (i.e. Adam Shefter and Michael Smith, the two best FB reporters out there in my opinion) Brady is fine. No-one can confirm multiple procedures or an infection, and if Brady doesn't come out guns blazing next year I would be shocked. This team won 11 games with a woefully overrated Matt Cassel at QB. Frustrating to think with Brady this team's probably playing the fucking Cardinals for their 4th ring. Fuck me.
ReplyDeleteDude are you real? The doctor who performed the surgery confirmed the infection...
ReplyDeleteI meant an infection that endangered the comeback. Brady will be fine. And i'll take the too big of a celebrity Brady over every other QB to ever lace them up. Biggest pet peeve is when the media creates stories out nothing. Fucking report some news or get out the business. I hate Shaugnessey in case you couldn't tell.
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