Hopefully later in the week I’ll be posting more substantively on Super Bowl XLII, trenchant game analysis, things to watch for, etc. But I figured I would lead the week with my theory to explain the biggest non-story of the bye week, Tom Brady’s walking boot. For those of you living in a cave out of reach of the East Coast Media Bias (ECMB) the past week, the story began with Tom Brady being seen sauntering into his lady friend (and mother of one of his recent babies) Gisele Bunchen carrying flowers (please keep in mind the flowers) and wearing one of those walking boot thingies doctors give you after a mild to moderate foot/ankle injury is sustained. The story was given more, ahem, legs, after Brady was conspicously absent from the 15 minutes of two practices late last week that the media was invited to intend, also known as the 15 minutes of this practice where absolutely nothing of <expletive deleted> importance will happen, certainly not in a Bill Belichik coached practice. Anyhow, I have a theory to explain the original existence of said walking boot on said Mr. Brady’s said foot:
He must’ve recently done something to piss Gisele off. Hence the flowers. He then wore the walking boot in an, ahem, lame attempt to curry sympathy from Gisele for her poor wounded warrior of a man.
January 30, 2008 at 5:17 pm |
Put me in the camp that says Tom Brady’s foot injury is a 100% fraud, concocted by Belichick. Ever since the famous “walking boot” made its appearance, every Patriots story has focused on Brady’s “injury”. There has been no talk in the last 8-9 days of the Perfect Season, Spy Gate, dirty play in the Chargers game, Brady’s INTs in the Chargers game, or even Randy Moss’s alleged most recent legal transgression. Belichick wanted to manipulate what the media would be talking about this past week so chalk up another victory for him. Belichick had one player, Tom Brady, who could both draw the entire spotlight and handle it well enough to not be distracted himself. Hence, a phony injury to St Tom, all the other stories disappear, and as a result, the rest of the 2007 New England Patriots spent an entire week free from the media distractions. Brilliant.