Fan Annoys Brady For Handshake in NY

[panther]

If it is a true fan, than take a minute and shake his hand. If it is someone who just wants to profit off of pictures/movies - screw them, those are the people that make it difficult for true fans.

 

[5 Rings for Brady!!]

The ironically sad part about this thread is that every time one of us clicks on that TMZ clip, it's just going the paparazzi stats to stalk Brady that much more.

About the only relevant comment on this irrelevant thread. I will never click on a TMZ link involving Brady, and I don't care whether some pinhead named his friggin' poodle after Brady or not.

And those of you that think you would do it all so differently than Tom are probably not famous for a reason.

 

[aluminum seats]

Who knows how you'd act if people were hounding you all the time......I would say though that Brady & Gisele's demeanor seemed a LITTLE off--it was like they were doing a perp walk or something. Jeez, your lives are great, lighten up a bit.

 

[pheenix11]

I'm not a real big "star effer" as they say and there are few people I would take a 2nd look at. I have to admit if I saw BB or Brady it might be different.

Its just human nature, you have thought about or talked about these people for hours on end. I guess its only natural to want even a few seconds of acknowledgement from them. I could care less about autographs but I think I would like to shake their hands. If nothing more than to say thank you.

They probably hate this and I imagine it can probably be a pain in the ass needing to shake people's hands everywhere you go. I don't see any way around it though. There's 1 of them and thousands of us.

 

[upstater1]

He looked pretty friendly to me. Had a smile on his face, just didn't engage in any banter.

That being said, it's the playoffs, Tom. And we all know, "Women weaken LEGS!!!"

 

[upstater1]

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.

You agree with a guy that says Tom didn't shake the fans hand? Huh?

 

[upstater1]

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.

Your time, though, would be worth probably $10,000 for that half hour.

Essentially, you'd be forking money out of your pocket and into theirs. You might as well just pay them off in the first 30 seconds to go away.

But when word got out, you'd have 1,000 paparazzi at your door the next morning.

 

[Mogamedogz]

Alright bro, what's your connection?

No connections (unfortunately). I won the tickets on the radio. The premiere was held in a theater. BB, his son, Rodney, and Ben Watson just happened to come in and sit directly behind my wife and I. It was a regular sized theater room so there was really no separation or anything. Everyone could just kind of sit where they wanted. Bill's seat (by dumb luck) was right behind mine. It was weird seeing him all dressed up in a suit and tie.

My conversation with Rodney started because he cracked a joke about my Polaroid camera. He said something like... "Man I didn’t even know they made those things anymore! You gotta get yourself a digital camera!"
As we were leaving the show, my wife went into the bathroom and Rodney's wife happened to be in there too. Rodney and I were just standing there in the hallway waiting for them to come out (like most normal guys do). I got to talk to him for about five minutes or so (mostly about working out). It was pretty cool. I didn’t ask for an autograph or nothing like that, because it just would have felt out of place. Awesome none the less. :rocker:

 

[PatsFanSince74]

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.

absolutely. saying something like "Hey, Tom Brady. I'm a big fan! Good luck against the Jags" is fine. grabbing his hand, stopping his progress on the street, engaging him in conversation or invading his personal space is not.

and, you've got New Yawkers right. i think people like brady come here because the natives (except for teeny boppers) leave them alone on the street and in restaurants. i once sat next to Keith Richards and his date for a three hour dinner in a nice NY restaurant late one night. we didn't acknowledge them and no one else in the restaurant bothered them either. brady probably has a lot harder time on the streets of boston or in boston area restaurants.

 

[DamnYankee57]

Never having the opportunity to meet anyone famous during my 50+ years on this earth, if I saw Tom Brady walking down the street, your darn right I'd make an effort to shake his hand and congratulate him on a great season. Maybe even push the envelope and ask for an autograph.

Odd that I wouldn't make the same effort if I saw someone famous from films or television in the same situation.

 

[Scouse Patriot]

I went to school in a nice area and it also happened to be where alot of my favourite players lived. I used to see them every morning going to training and not once did it interest me to bother them, nor my friends who where walking with me. They are in restraunts around the city now and nobody bothers. It's funny to see players faces who aren't used to the city, like recent transfers and the puzzled look they have at the respect for privacy they are given in Liverpool.

If I saw Tom I honestly wouldn't bother him, maybe a little thumb up or something daft like that if he happend to look my way but thats it. It's just not a big deal here to go mental over stars I guess.