Did supermodel Gisele Bundchen kill the Patriots dynasty?
You could reach that conclusion by sampling the media response to New England;s Super Bowl loss to the Giants. Since Gisele came into quarterback Tom Brady’s life, the Patriots failed to win another World Championship.
Worse, an interloper videotaped her rant against the clumsy Patriots receivers after Sunday’s loss. Won’t such semi-public outbursts torment poor Wes Welker and foster dissension on the Patriots camp?
The pundits weighed in:
Gerry Callahan, Boston Herald: “Now, instead of the next Joe Montana, they’re calling Brady another Jim Kelly, and they’re referring to his wife as Jinxele. Any minute now, the home video of her postgame rant will have more viewers than Madonna’s halftime show. Even if they go deep into the jungles of Central America, not sure the Bradys are going to be able to run and hide from this one.”
Jen Floyd Engel, FoxSports.com: “Nobody likes a sanctimonious SuperModelMommy and they really do not like the know-it-all-Monday-morning-quarterback guy, especially when he is a she and she is ripping on her husband’s teammates. Look, Welker screwed up. He knows it. Every single account of New England’s postgame I have seen describes him as distraught and talking about how in the biggest moment of his life he let the team down by failing to make a play. By all means, pile on, Gisele. Carve into New England tight end Aaron Hernandez, too, while at it. Just know this is something your husband would never in 100 years do and is why so much of America likes him in spite of his Uggs and his bank account and his Super Bowl rings and the whole being married to a Super Model and living in a $20 million mansion thing.”
Bill Simmons, ESPN.com: “Mrs. Brady? She might have a harder time shaking this one. I lived in the Boston area for the first 13 years of my life. I went to college 45 minutes from Boston. I spent the first 10 years after college living in Boston. It's hard to overstate how provincial Massachusetts is. There's an 'Us Against Them' mentality that's just part of the DNA. You grow up there, you live a full life there, you die there. That's how it's supposed to play out. There's been a local undercurrent for the past few years that Brady thinks he's too good for Boston (because he moved to New York, then California), that he cares too much about being a celebrity, that Gisele made him soft, that he's not really ‘one of us.’ So when you combine Gisele's Super Bowl week performance with everything else, take a guess what they'll be talking about on local sports radio this month.”
Pete Prisco, CBSSports.com: “One has to wonder: Is he coming to the end? I say he has some good football left in that arm, but the Patriots and their fans have to hope that it means good playoff football. After the game, Brady's wife gave an earful to a camera about the receivers dropping passes. She might want to look over in bed next to her for blame before throwing it elsewhere. After all, the last time Brady won a Super Bowl was half his career ago. There's no hiding from that, even for an icon like Brady.”
ESPN.com’s Sarah Spain had some fun with this topic:
Since the beginning of time, ladies have been mucking things up for their men.
Eve was the first reported offender, causing the fall of man and spoiling the innocent fun of no-pants parties for generations to come. Her meddling eventually led to Susan B. Anthony's incessant yapping about giving women the right to vote, then Gloria Steinem started harping about women's lib and, yada yada yada, you have today's woman, who is always sticking her nose in something.
If it weren't for the devious and tempting ways of women, the world's favorite politicians, musicians, actors and athletes would never falter or fail. As everyone knows, Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles, Bridgette Wilson destroyed Pete Sampras' career and if Elin Woods had just been a little more understanding, we wouldn't have had to endure two years of a title-less Tiger.
The latest man to lose his edge because of a woman? Two-time Super Bowl loser Tom Brady.
Gisele Bundchen (or should I say Yoko Bundchen?) has not only stripped Brady of his talent, now she's gone and opened up her big ol' supermodel mouth, commenting on him and the game of football! The nerve.
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE
Questions to ponder while wondering how far Mizzou’s high-wire act will take them:
How will Brady's failure be remembered halfway around the world?
With the Rams still toiling in St. Louis, will Los Angeles have to be content with its Lingerie Football League titles for the time being?
Did some of that Super Bowl action look awfully familiar?
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“It feels great with all these people.”
Failed Rams defensive tackle Jimmy Kennedy, glad-handing ecstatic Giants fans after his team's Super Bowl triumph.
