Fan Annoys Brady For Handshake in NY

[Disco Volante]

So Tom doesn't shake a guys hand and it's okay but when Merriman doesn't sign a helmet it's "not classy"? You guys are too much. Can't have it both ways...

I’m on the Pats fan side of view here and I agree with this post.

You guys can’t be making topics that one avoiding is acceptable while the other isn’t. Fact is you don’t know enough about either person’s situation to be judging at all.

Neither Tom or Shawne are entitled to do anything off the field nor should their motives be questioned.

I agree with another poster who said paparazzi should be outlawed, it’s god damn disgusting and so are the people who consume it.

 

[SoonerPatriot]

Well for a nobody you guys sure keep up on EVERYTHING Shawne don't you? Check the 15 page thread on how Merriman didn't sign an old wrestler's helmet. TMZ makes me want to puke. Congrats on Brady making the trashy spotlight with Romo. You all should be proud!

We're proud of him and his accomplishments. Does crybaby Tomlinson and the Roid Head make you proud? Somehow I think so. Charger fans tend to be a rather motley lot.

 

[Drewwho]

From the Track who spoke to the fan:

http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1065620


That’s according to music exec Brad Davidson, aka Wiener Dog Man, who played defense for No. 12 yesterday, telling us that his football hero was much nicer in person than he appeared on a video posted on TMZ.com.

Of course he was.

“I think he thought it was a setup, but when he noticed I was wearing a Pawtucket Red Sox [team stats] hat he realized I was a true fan,” Brad told the Track.

As we told you yesterday, Tom was caught on paparazzo video-cam exiting galpal Gisele Bundchen’s West Village pad carrying her Yorkie, Vida, in a pink Vera Bradley-esque doggie carrier. (That’s a whole separate issue.)

On his way to an idling town car that whisked him back to Boston, Tom ran into Davidson, who was walking his two Dachshunds named Tom Brady and Fenway.

In the videoclip, Tom appears amused when a star-struck Brad tells him the name of his little hot dog. Brady reluctantly shakes the fan’s hand and flees into the car with Vida, where he is heard to complain to the driver that fan facetime is the “story of my life.”

But Davidson said Tom’s the victim of a bad call.

“In the car he was laughing and said (it was) nice meeting me and he even said bye to little Brady,” said the Pats fan.

(...Personally, I didn't think Tom did anything wrong with the fan. He stopped acknowledged him, and shook his hand. What else was he supposed to do, invite him in the car for a drink?)

 

[RoughingthePasser]

That video, those people, the paparazzi...just makes me sick.

Seriously, who gets their jollies off of watching famous people walk down the street?

so true.
Tom has had a killer year and he's got a pretty popular gf but enough is enough! I'd hate to have a cam up my *****-that's annoying!
The dude just wants to chill a little
he's TB-but a person just like you and me
We focus on all the wrong things here in America-lots more going on that needs attention

 

[apricissimus]

For some strange reason I tend to run into a lot of Red Sox players on the street (Manny Ramirez, Scott Hatteberg, Rolando Arrojo, Dennis Eckersley, Mike Meyers to name a few; I also saw Eddie Murray on the street) and I never said boo to any of them. Even if you're not all up in their face for an autograph, I'm sure it gets really annoying when random people keep wanting to talk to you and have you acknowledge them. (Though I'm sure Rolando Arrojo gets recognized quite a bit less than Tom Brady! )

Let's just enjoy watching them play and leave them alone elsewhere.

 

[bresna]

People seem to forget that John Lennon lived and died in New York City. I bet his wife wishes he had been less visible out on the streets.

There is a lot of hatred for the Patriots right now. If I were a Patriot on the streets of NYC, I'd be leery of anyone who walked up to me, Red Sox hat or no Red Sox hat.

 

[oldskool138]

See, if I was famous, I'd leave my house like a half hour before I need to be somewhere. I'd just stand around letting the paparazzi take pictures of me until they ran out of film (or memory on their digital cameras). They'd get a bunch of crap pics and they'd have to stop sooner or later.

I'm surprised more celebs don't try that.

 

[The Boston Patriot]

No kidding, but what do you expect from a city boy who dates a girly girl who hides behind her man? A prissy, nipping, yapping, annoying, rat of a dog... :bricks:

Not at all like the man eater in your sig.

 

[FrontSeven]

Torture ....... you'd have to have rocks in your head to bother Tom Brady on the street. If you can think of anybody but yourSELF, leave the guy alone. That's the biggest favor you can do for him and the team.

 

[Patriotic]

See, if I was famous, I'd leave my house like a half hour before I need to be somewhere. I'd just stand around letting the paparazzi take pictures of me until they ran out of film (or memory on their digital cameras). They'd get a bunch of crap pics and they'd have to stop sooner or later.

I'm surprised more celebs don't try that.

Now that your secret is out, thousands of celebs will begin to do this.

 

[FrontSeven]

What is in the minds of those who make a living haunting people where ever they go?

Dirty tricks done dirt cheap.

 

[cartmen]

Honestly I think the dog thing was setup its a little too coincidental that the guy in NY is walking with a Sox hat on happened to have 2 dogs both named after boston sports icons while the PAPZ are watching. I am soory just seems a little contrived to me. BTW I dont blame TB for a second millions or not I like not being bother when Im going to the store or a restaraunt

 

[sbcpats70]

The Friday before the Buffalo Game, my buddy's band played the Medfield High Athletic Dept. Fundraiser and I tagged along. Curt and Shonda were right at the table next to me all night. I glanced over a couple times, but I agree that if you just happen to be in the same place as a star, that's no excuse to start bugging them. It was cool enough just to see him up close.

.....and Shonda is SMOKIN' hot.

 

[AirForcePatFan]

Not at all like the man eater in your sig.

Him? Riddick? The dog in my sig? I have a gun because he will lick a bad guy to death or roll over and ask for a belly rub... He's no man eater....





He's a man lover!!

 

[shmessy]

So Tom doesn't shake a guys hand and it's okay but when Merriman doesn't sign a helmet it's "not classy"? You guys are too much. Can't have it both ways...

Accurate as ever. Anyone with a working brain can see clearly that he DID shake the guys hand.

What is it like in your bubble?

 

[patchick]

The paparazzi really are scum....

Yep...and way different from even 10 years ago. Bizarrely, the industry has been taken over by a handful of agencies that literally hire gang members straight out of prison because of their unparalleled ability to navigate the streets and track down/corner people. No joke.

Personally, I don't care whether Brady shakes hands (though he did, of course) OR whether Merriman signs anything. In fact, I'm even more sympathetic with Merriman since adults who ask athletes to sign memorabilia are often just out to make a quick buck off the autograph.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I sat next to Bill Belichick at a Red Sox game in the table seats (literally, his table was right next to mine). There was pretty stringent security around him... two guys came down and thanked him and he smiled and shook their hands. But I didn't say anything to him, except dart quick glances and text everyone I knew "holy **** I'm sitting next to Bill Belichick." No need to disturb the guy.

That's my account of my brush with greatness.

you're one cool dude, appreciated i am sure by bb...

 

[PatsFanSince74]

look, if the guy's that big a fan, lives in the immediate neighborhood, knows where bundchen lives, and knows that brady is in town, he probably walks his dogs past her house a few times hoping to see brady. assuming he's sane, breaks no laws and does nothing more than say hello to his idol, it's a case of an enthusiastic fan without much of a life and with time to waste. i don't see any harm in it and i doubt brady would either.

reaching out, uninvited, to shake Brady's hand puts Brady in the position of looking like a jerk if he doesn't shake it and is another matter. that's invading Brady's personal space and could quickly become a threatening gesture, not to mention the fact that his right hand is important to him. not cool.

living in nyc as long as i have, i have found that most celebrities don't mind being recognized and/or hailed on the street, especially when they're mega-galactic type stars ("Whoa. Robert Redford! I'm a big fan!" "Ms. Hepburn! You're the greatest.") that will usually get you a polite smile as they hurry away. but if you stop them, try to engage them in conversation or invade their physical space in any way, including by grabbing their hand, that gets them nervous and makes them standoffish.

bottom line. it's best just to ignore them and tell people later that you saw them.

 

[patchick]

living in nyc as long as i have, i have found that most celebrities don't mind being recognized and/or hailed on the street, especially when they're mega-galactic type starts ("Whoa. Robert Redford! I'm a big fan!" "Ms. Hepburn! You're the greatest.") that will usually get you a polite smile as they hurry away. but if you stop them, try to engage them in conversation or invade their physical space in any way, including by grabbing their hand, that gets them nervous and makes them standoffish.

This is a great point. In fact, a lot of celebrities (like Brady) choose NYC because the locals are experts at pretending to ignore each other. Seriously, it's a key city survival skill: a hundred New Yorkers pack into a subway car, close enough to exchange bodily fluids, but miraculously all hundred position themselves to avoid eye contact with one another! (This is the root of the myth that New Yorkers are unfriendly; they're conditioned to walk around in little invisible privacy cocoons. Once you break through the cocoon, New Yorkers are WAY friendlier than New Englanders.)

Anyway, the wiener dog dude was breaking the social compact. Must be fresh off the boat from Pawtucket.

 

[primetime]

Anyone else think that dork with the 2 dogs was a plant? LOL

Noooo, couldn't be. Everyone in NYC names their dog after the QB of the NEW ENGLAND Patriots. Apparently it wasn't a set-up, but if I was Brady I'd certainly think it was.