Brady is the goat but FU

[XLIX]

Brady is probably bitter the Krafts didn't cut him into the team but i wouldn't give away 10% of my team for peanuts either like that buffoon Mark Davis did, i'm sure he would rather be a part owner of the Pats than Raiders.

I can't believe how often I have to say this:

Tom Brady wants to own an NFL team (well, to be clear, be part of a majority ownership group). That path simply doesn't exist in New England. It's really that f'ing simple.

 

[Tunescribe]

That's because your thinking like an adult. Perhaps if you could get in touch with your inner child it would help. The emotional IQ of 8 year old you might get it, although you may need to go a couple of years further back

I rarely disagree with you, Maust, but that's a bad take. Passionate fandom is purely emotional and why we become invested in following sports. It's healthy. Folks were reasonably pissed when their iconic hero went indifferent on the franchise that enabled his legacy, erected a statue in his honor and inducted him early into its hall of fame. He declared "I'm a Patriot for life" and then has "no dog in the fight" with this Super Bowl?! Where his former team is coached by a friend and former teammate, no less? Brady appears to be devolving toward a soulless corporate automaton.

 

[JMC00]

You're all losers he made a Vrabel and McDaniels post too

**** yall

He only did it because he heard the noise

 

[Guts]

He only did it because he heard the noise

damnded if you do, damned if you dont he could've just not said anything

 

[RxJock1120]

You're all losers he made a Vrabel and McDaniels post too

**** yall

Yeah, this def doesn't look like he caved to the pressure...this seems genuine

 

[Tunescribe]

damnded if you do, damned if you dont he could've just not said anything

Here is exactly what he should have said: "My connection with the Patriots and Coach Vrabel speaks for itself. By the same token, Seattle's Klint Kubiak is a candidate to coach the Raiders, of which I am part owner. At the risk of saying I have two dogs in this fight, please understand my position."

 

[VectorPrime]

Brady has always been freakishly paranoid over his defending his position going back to his Michigan days and is now even more so regarding his legacy as the NFL's best and most accomplished QB. Look no further to how he quite obviously *detests* Mahomes and how he could barely hide his glee when he was calling last years Super Bowl embarrassment.

So now he's very likely envious of Maye showing up and being an MVP (well should have been) in year 2 at 23 years old and on the cusp of a Super Bowl win.

It's not a good look, it speaks to him being a defensive weirdo, but thats how hes literally ALWAYS been. It's why he was so reletentslley obsessed with winning even when he was in his 40s and already the declared GOAT.

 

[Kargetina]

That's because your thinking like an adult. Perhaps if you could get in touch with your inner child it would help. The emotional IQ of 8 year old you might get it, although you may need to go a couple of years further back

You have 15,000 posts on a board about a children's game where 11 people beat the hell out of each other for money, moving a ball yard by yard, by using arbitrary rules, and you're going to write something like this?

There's absolutely nothing rational about rooting and supporting a team, getting anxious, euphoric, nervous because some particular group of people who currently wear one jersey beat some other people in a game. I live 7200km away from Boston, and yet for more than 30 years, i stay up until 05:00am to watch my favorite team play. Is it rational? No. Has it given me endless unforgettable memories and pure happiness? Without a doubt.

We pick a team, whether by a random chance, choice, or by being born in the same city as the team, and once the worm is in, it usually stays that way until the end. The emotional connection to the players, and the team is the only sensible way to explain why people cry, laugh, get euphoric, depressed and everything in between, because their team won or lost. Not a single person who isn't a sociopath, is indifferent whether their team loses in a playoff game. And what is a team, but a collection of players?

Tom Brady was the critical link in the chain for 20 years of dominance, 20 years of supporting, rooting, yelling for, getting upset and angry over the injustice of Deflagate, the heartbreaks of SB42, 46, the Colts loss in 2006, the first dynasty, the second dynasty. Of course people would still have affection for Brady. He was the symbol of the team we love and support, the best player, the only player through every ups and downs.

If people were expecting Brady to wear a Pats jersey these two weeks and organize a Pats rally, maybe your post would make any kind of sense. But for someone who has been nothing but loved, supported beyond any reasonable measure for 20 years, to be indifferent whether the team that drafted him, helped him become the greatest of all time and gave him a statue, beats a team he has no history with, is expecting basic human decency and nothing more. No one expects Brady to LOVE New England, but if 20 years of the most remarkable era in NFL history isn't enough for him to root for the team over Seattle, that says all about him, and nothing about the emotional maturity or lack thereof of Patriots fans. Brady had absolutely no issue publicly endorsing Stafford over Maye on several occasions, so spare me ''he's now an owner and commentator'' schtick. He knows what he's doing. The fact that every single teammate that was asked directly about his quote, criticized him, says it all.

 

[neckroll#14]

Every time I want to get worked up over this 'slight' by our sports hero, and I do wish that he was more supportive, I realize that in our world there are people dying of disease, starving children, people living in war-torn areas, and countless other real tragedies to be concerned with... so nah - I am not going to expend mental energy on what some near-billionaire hometown sports legend does or doesn't do... I will enjoy 3 hours of diversion when the game is on - then its back to the mundane, yet far more important, realities of life like friends, family, career, etc...

 

[Tunescribe]

Every time I want to get worked up over this 'slight' by our sports hero, and I do wish that he was more supportive, I realize that in our world there are people dying of disease, starving children, people living in war-torn areas, and countless other real tragedies to be concerned with... so nah - I am not going to expend mental energy on what some near-billionaire hometown sports legend does or doesn't do... I will enjoy 3 hours of diversion when the game is on - then its back to the mundane, yet far more important, realities of life like friends, family, career, etc...

But it's not a matter of being childishly irrational/carried away vs. logically balanced with the right priorities. It is possible to feel strongly about things like Brady's faux pas amidst real-world perspective. Passion is what it is and that's OK.

 

[RxJock1120]

His loyalty is to the Raiders. What don’t you people understand?

No I think we get that. But the last time I checked the Raiders are not in the Super Bowl...

 

[Sect140]

Brady has proven that he in fact does not deserve to be our idol

The last time I had a so called idol I was probably ten years old.

 

[RobertWeathers]

damnded if you do, damned if you dont he could've just not said anything

Yep. A lesson most of us learned a long time ago is when you try to make everyone happy most will not be.

 

[Sect140]

He said "may the best team win", Earlier he said Seahawks would win 6 out of every 10 teams, so he thinks SEA is the best team and wants them to win.

Despite his position as minority owner he could have said something like" I spent 20 great years in NE and the fans and the organization are great and I will always hope for success for that team except when they play the Raiders"

No one would have objected to that.
He is not as brilliant as he thinks he is.

When someone says they believe a team would win six out of ten times doesn’t mean they want that team to win, a few months after we lost to Giants the first time I was on vacation and was in an elevator with a Giants fan, he said if they played that game 10 times the Pats win 9 out of 10 times, your logic states he was rooting for the Pats. You’re reaching Sam, I really thought the positive Sam would’ve lasted longer after the bet.

 

[Wingy]

As a partial owner, it would be highly unprofessional for Brady to publicly take sides in the Super Bowl.

To me it’s more the commentator part, though the ownership part does matter as well.

Sure Fox isn’t broadcasting this year, and some act like that gives him a free pass to profess public Pats homerism.

But!! They will be for future Patriots Super Bowls. Brady would be under the microscope regardless in that situation, so he’s wise to avoid fueling that controversy even more.

Honestly, that level of awareness, insane professionalism and attention to detail is a big part of what made him the player he was. Even if “robotic.” I never thought of Tommy as oozing charisma. Why are we surprised?

Whatever, I don’t care if he says the “professional” thing in public. I have no doubt in his home, at his party, etc - we know who he’s going to be pulling for…and he has supported Kraft in a more recent post. Maybe responding to ‘backlash,’ but I just can’t muster the energy to care passionately given what I’ve written above.

 

[jimnance]

My only comment on this thread/subject is that every single poster made sense, regardless of their take.
They're all understandable. They're all right.
How many times has that ever happened?

 

[Sect140]

it was obvious to me Brady didn’t cherish any connection to New England or the Patriots when one of his first comments after he left was “You won’t catch me dead living there again.”

He has stated many times he couldn’t get of here fast enough because of the snow and cold.

 

[bormio]

You have 15,000 posts on a board about a children's game where 11 people beat the hell out of each other for money, moving a ball yard by yard, by using arbitrary rules, and you're going to write something like this?

There's absolutely nothing rational about rooting and supporting a team, getting anxious, euphoric, nervous because some particular group of people who currently wear one jersey beat some other people in a game. I live 7200km away from Boston, and yet for more than 30 years, i stay up until 05:00am to watch my favorite team play. Is it rational? No. Has it given me endless unforgettable memories and pure happiness? Without a doubt.

We pick a team, whether by a random chance, choice, or by being born in the same city as the team, and once the worm is in, it usually stays that way until the end. The emotional connection to the players, and the team is the only sensible way to explain why people cry, laugh, get euphoric, depressed and everything in between, because their team won or lost. Not a single person who isn't a sociopath, is indifferent whether their team loses in a playoff game. And what is a team, but a collection of players?

Tom Brady was the critical link in the chain for 20 years of dominance, 20 years of supporting, rooting, yelling for, getting upset and angry over the injustice of Deflagate, the heartbreaks of SB42, 46, the Colts loss in 2006, the first dynasty, the second dynasty. Of course people would still have affection for Brady. He was the symbol of the team we love and support, the best player, the only player through every ups and downs.

If people were expecting Brady to wear a Pats jersey these two weeks and organize a Pats rally, maybe your post would make any kind of sense. But for someone who has been nothing but loved, supported beyond any reasonable measure for 20 years, to be indifferent whether the team that drafted him, helped him become the greatest of all time and gave him a statue, beats a team he has no history with, is expecting basic human decency and nothing more. No one expects Brady to LOVE New England, but if 20 years of the most remarkable era in NFL history isn't enough for him to root for the team over Seattle, that says all about him, and nothing about the emotional maturity or lack thereof of Patriots fans. Brady had absolutely no issue publicly endorsing Stafford over Maye on several occasions, so spare me ''he's now an owner and commentator'' schtick. He knows what he's doing. The fact that every single teammate that was asked directly about his quote, criticized him, says it all.

We don’t pick the team, the team picks us

 

[Keyser Söze]

Damn shame he’s not a minority owner of the Patriots.

 

[Sect140]

For everyone that has also turned this into Brady sucks for never reaching out to Drake or talking to him or lending him advise like sweet dear Peyton, go listen to him on Monday night during media night, Drake states the he has met Tom a few times and Tom has given him advise and then he even goes on to say what he thought the best advise is he has received from Tom, however I’m sure Drake is just making it up and people here know the real truth because of all the fact checking they did. Man this game can’t get here fast enough.