Why the hell would Foles care about shaking Brady's hand? He jsut wond the ****ing Super Bowl. His first and he led the team to do it. He's not looking for Brady. He's running to the other end of the field screaming. Probably trying to find his wife and kid in the commotion and his Coaches to celebrate. Brady is the last thing on his mind at that moment. And Brady is not about to walk through that logjam to try to seek him out just to shake his hand. He's have been out there 20 minutes trying to get to the guy and he doesn't have time for that when he has to get changed and face the media.
This thread is stupid and worrying about handshakes is stupid. I thought people were over this **** 10 years ago.
Ten years ago the crying about handshakes was directed at Belichick. Now it's toward Brady.
Personally, I like the way it was in the early days. The article below tells us how it used to be.
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Touchy subject
Not a part of the NFL of the past, the postgame handshake between coaches is now a hot-button topic
By Jim McCabe
Globe Staff / December 16, 2007
Devoid of color, but saturated in character, the photo has hung on a wall in whichever corner of the pro football world Ernie Accorsi has called home. For him, it represents a golden age of professional football that was built upon unshakable pillars of mystique.
George Halas on the right, Vince Lombardi to the left.
Dressed in shirt and tie beneath a top coat, each man also wears a fedora and a smile, and what is caught on film screams mutual respect, their right hands extended onto the other man's left shoulder.
"I love that picture," said Accorsi, whose association with the NFL stretched from 1970 to 2007 and included general manager stints with the Colts, Browns, and Giants. The photo of two icons - Halas of the Chicago Bears, Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers - epitomizes everything about a time when personal relations were built face to face, not BlackBerry to BlackBerry. But it is what Accorsi knows about that photograph that provides an important distinction from today's landscape.
The handshake and meeting took place before a Bears-Packers game.
Accorsi knows that because when the pounding and the screaming and the pushing and the shoving was over in days of yesteryear, competitors rarely stuck out a hand. Not the players and certainly not the coaches, from Halas and Curly Lambeau, to Lombardi and Paul Brown, and to legends who followed. What's more, they were never questioned, either.
Oh, how Bill Belichick should have coached in that era, because when his duties are done today and the final seconds have ticked off in the Patriots' game against the Jets at Gillette Stadium, it will be his midfield meeting and handshake with New York's Eric Mangini - his onetime protégé - that will elicit more scrutiny than anything that happened on the field.
"High fives? I really haven't thought too much about that [or even] cartwheels," said Belichick, breaking into a rare grin.
From his perspective, Mangini said, "I don't expect to do anything outside the norm that I do every game with every head coach that I play against."Which is shake hands, almost on cue. It strikes some old-time NFL guys as strange.
"Bill doesn't have to do it," said Bud Grant. "But he knows he'll be vilified if he doesn't."
Old-school philosophy
During a Hall of Fame coaching career with the Minnesota Vikings that garnered four Super Bowl appearances and 11 division titles, Grant never wavered.
"I never shook Halas's hand or Lombardi's hand after a game. That was my volition."
Now 80 and still a daily presence around the Vikings' offices, Grant sighs softly and concedes his philosophy has gone the way of the drive-in movie and the drug store soda fountain. But he won't back down from what he believed in.
"You were expected to play out there, to work up a certain lather against the other team," he said. "If you were in a fight and when the fight was over, if you lost and you could be happy, then I believe you didn't get prepared for the fight. I don't believe you can change colors that quickly. You can't be a chameleon."
Like Lombardi and Halas, Grant said he would cross paths with the opposing coach before the game, "but I'd tell him, 'After the game I'm not going to shake hands.' "
It wasn't personal; it was the competitive landscape and no one seemed to take offense.
"I didn't see [Colts coach] Weeb Ewbank cross the field to shake [Giants coach] Jim Lee Howell's hand at the end of the OT game," said Accorsi, referring to the legendary 1958 NFL Championship game won by Baltimore.
"George Allen never shook a coach's hand after the game. I know that," said longtime NFL general manager Ron Wolf, whose sentiment is echoed from a Dallas perspective because Gil Brandt saw things similarly when he worked with another NFL coaching icon.
"Tom Landry didn't feel he had to go across the field to shake hands," said the Cowboys' longtime director of player personnel.
Yet you will uncover Noah's Ark before you find any evidence of media condemnation of Halas, Lombardi, Brown, Grant, Allen, Ewbank, Howell, or Landry for not shaking hands after a game. What's with that? Why do the media analyze the Belichick handshake and rip him if it's deemed lame or insincere?
"Because," said Jerry Glanville, "it is fashionable and we are a much more loving country."
His response drips with enough sarcasm to draw a 15-yard penalty from the PC referees, but the colorful and sometimes outrageous coach of the Oilers and Falcons thinks the postgame handshake should be tossed onto the football scrap pile, right there with leather helmets. The fact that a mere handshake becomes a story that frequently casts Belichick in a bad light makes it more personal to Glanville, now 66 and the head coach at Portland State, but still a fan of the Patriots' coach.
"We were on the staff together [special teams assistants for the Detroit Lions in 1976]. We were bachelors together," said Glanville. "We skied together. We hung out and went on vacations. But when we coached against each other, we never ran over to swap spit."
