Testing Tom Brady
If you go to the Super Bowl, you may see Giants fans wearing Bridget Moynahan masks at the behest of New York radio station Q 104.3.
Why? Well, you will recall how Jessica Simpson turned into a distraction for Tony Romo – or so thought the Cowboys faithful. Could the presence of Moynahan, via these masks, cause Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to unravel?
The Q 104.3 web site picks up the story:
“Tom and Bridget dated for two years, and Bridget got pregnant around the time they broke up — a split that was curiously close to the time that he started dating Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Their relationship has been, well, frosty ever since; Bridget even named their son John Edward Thomas Moynahan, not only leaving out the Brady name but giving him the initials JET! (And you know how the Patriots loooove the Jets . . .)”
So maybe it’s worth a shot.
Elsewhere on the fan front, Maxim.com has located those bikini-wearing Packers fans. In fact, the trio look ready for a media tour, as this clip from a Wisconsin TV station indicates.
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE
Questions to ponder while Manny Legace tries to rediscover his groove:
- Where does Deion Sanders get off ripping LaDainian Tomlinson for not playing on a sprained knee? Isn’t this the same Deion Sanders famous for his matador “tackling” in the secondary?
- Does Rick Majerus really believe than any publicity is good publicity?
- Is Trent Green really returning to the Miami Dolphins for still more abuse? Can’t some governmental agency step in?
HE’S FASTER ON ARTIFICIAL TURF
Back in his pre-college days in Virginia, Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw ran into some typical teenage trouble in Charlottesville.
Or, rather, he couldn’t run away from it. The Cavalier Daily reported that Bradshaw, then an incoming running back for the University of Virginia, was caught drinking an alcoholic beverage. So he tried to bolt.
The Cavalier picks up the story: “Police chased him for about a quarter-mile before stopping him near the Rotunda. Davis said there was a struggle between the parties when the officers were trying to handcuff Bradshaw, leading the officers to use pepper spray. He was then taken to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail and was released later Saturday on a $1,000 bond.”
Basically harmless stuff, for sure, but Deadspin.com pundit Will Leitch found it troubling.
“A future NFL running back, at the age of 18 and at the most gazelle-like of his powers, could not outrun policemen,” he wrote. “How do you even draft a guy after that? Honestly, ‘being chased by the cops’ should really be an event at the combine.”
QUIPS ‘R US
Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:
Bill Simmons, ESPN.com: “What about Eli Manning winning three playoff games on the road, prevailing in minus-4 degree weather in Green Bay and leading the underdog Giants to the Super Bowl? My God, look at the previous sentence again! Just look at it! I can’t get over it. Has there ever been a more improbable Super Bowl QB? Right after the winning field goal Sunday night, poor Eli had to run 40 yards before he found a teammate to hug . . . and when he found one, it was punter Jeff Feagles. High comedy. This is how Teddy Kennedy’s political career would have unfolded if Chappaquiddick had never happened.”
Dan Daly, Washington Times: “Such disorienting times for sports fans. I mean, you see the name ‘Simpson’ in a headline, and you don’t know whether it’s O.J. or Jessica.”
Mike Downey, Chicago Tribune: “Well, they just held the yearly tribal ceremony and virgin sacrifice known as the Cubs Convention, which means that another season of comical Cubs baseball must be right around the corner. Thousands of the team’s fans turned out to discuss how, yes, this could be the Cubs’ year! Sure it will be. And right after that, America’s voters will elect President Ron Paul.”
Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle: “Now that the case apparently is closed, Nosy Neds like me will never know why a female lawyer working on a divorce case involving Pacman Jones would meet with him at a strip club. Doesn’t she have an office? A van? A Starbucks?”
Mark Kriegel, FoxSports.com: “No shame for Notre Dame fans in seeing their basketball team blown out by Georgetown. Hey, you guys already have 13 wins. Charlie Weis won’t get there until midway through the 2010 season.”
Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “Dan Marino has come out with a new charity wine, with proceeds benefiting his foundation. The signature wines will be called ‘Vintage 13.’ Notably, when you have finished the wine, there’s no ring in the glass.”
David Thomas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “Did you hear that botanists have discovered a type of palm tree in Madagascar that flowers, then self-destructs? They’re classifying it as Treeus Cowboyus.’”
MEGAPHONE
“It’s all my fault. How did I allow all those years of losing? There’s a statement, ‘Some people know how to win.’ I don’t know how to win. I know how to win at everything else, but not at sports. But I’m prepared to do whatever is necessary to win.”
Hapless Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Didn’t Deon miss games in his career to “turf toe”? Now that’s a manly injury….
Greg Cote on Marino…ouch!
It may be easy to bash the Cubbies (God knows I love doing it), but methinks they have a better shot this year than my beloved Redbirds…and that sucks quite frankly.
Go Blues tonight against the Nucks.
I agree that the Cubs are the team to beat in the central division. However, since their post season could have been timed with a stop watch, it is ultimately irrelevant.
Central division clubs have an easy time keeping their respective fans interested and drunks with cell phones streaming into their stadiums.
To #1…Turf toe actually hurst like hell and if you play on it, it gets much worse.
Im sick of all the cheap shots to Dan Marino. Hey Cote…have you ever won the Pulllitzer? douche
Welcome to hell, Heath Ledger!
Well, out of alll the woman John Lennon could have had, he chose Yoko Ono. If Tom Brady’s relationship with Gisele Bundchen doesn’t work out, can anybody say Rosie O’Donnell-Brady?
Even though a lousy NL Central is pretty much what the Cardinals need to contend next year, wouldn’t be nice if that division was actually strong again, so all of the smug Boston and New York fans/media types can quit blowing the “Comedy Central” out of proportion? Nobody seems to remember that it was arguably the best division in baseball in the not so distant 2004 and 2005.
If the Sox and Yanks didn’t have their precious wallets, the AL East would be the “AL Least” (can anybody say Orioles and Devil Rays?). Oh, the day for that to ever happen.
To the person who left comment #4, not that I overly care about Heath Ledger dying, but how ’bout showin’ some respect for the deceased, insensitive prick!
Yes the Cubs are the team to beat … and they will beaten often in 2008!
Raymond Burke, put a sock in it you media whore-monger! As we are all well aware, SLU established themselves quite clearly as a non-religious private institution, governed by a Lay board thats mission is in line with the values of the Jesuit ideal…all when they sold their souls for TIF money for their new basketball stadium!
That means they aren’t a Catholic University, argued by SLU and upheld in Court!
So Majerus can say whatever he wants and Burke’s fossilized mind can go back to his confessional and think about the “good old days” before Civil Rights and the Spanish Inquisition “got it done right”.
RE: #4
I’m not sure the gentlemen you refer to will go to hell, as they harmed no one but thermselves. I am however fairly sure you will. Can’t anyone stop this doofus from posting here. The security on this comment section sucks mightily.
For Everybody
Hail Mary, Full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us Sinners, now and at the hour of our death
amen