Why You Really Hate Tom Brady

[Actual Pats Fan]

Objectively, the worst thing I can think of is the Moynahan thing. Even though all's fair in love and war, from what I understand he didn't cheat...just 'bad timing' with the 3 month pregnancy announced 2 months after the breakup. That's about as TMZ as I get.

Even the worst thing in his emails was the completely accurate prediction that Peyton was done in two years. And he even felt the need to apologize for it... a completely foreign concept to "Teabag" Manning.

Speaking of which, I live in Denver, and I've had conversations that go like this (BEFORE the latest news stories about Peyton/Tennessee in February):

Donkey fan: "Tom Brady's a piece of **** and a cheater!"
Me: "Elaborate please."
DF: "...... cellphone or something...."
Me: "Then why do you not only root for a man who committed sexual assault, but praise him as being a philanthropist and a hero?"
DF: "You're making that up. It would be a big deal if it actually happened."

February 2016....
Me: "See. Kinda a big deal."
DF: "The two other people in the room disagree with him on what happened, but I believe him." / "It was college, so what?" / "You're being childish using that issue to root against Peyton."

Can't people have a little objectivity when it comes to this stuff? I have rooted for ****ty people who happen to play for my team (hernandez), but that doesn't make them good people, and I will acknowledge that.

That said, of all the players on all my favorite teams, TFB is one of the best guys off the field.

Wondering exactly what Tom did "wrong" in the Moynahan thing. As far as Denver, everything went downhill for them when total loser Elway went there after mooning the Colts. Denver is a loser organization, no redeeming qualities, and if they ever had any real fans, they're wearing bags over their heads. Finally, I believe all of us rooted for Hernandez before any of his crimes were revealed.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I've always felt that people hate Tom Brady because he doesnt aestetically represent the "meat and potatoes" sensibilities of middle America. He doesnt doesnt appear as an "everyman" to most of america. Fans and Media personnel feel that guys like roethlisburger, Favre, and Manning are guys that you can have a beer with and talk about pickup trucks and lawnmowers. They are seen as tough, rugged, blue collar guys and brady is seen as a metrosexual wuss. The funny part is favre, roethlisberger and,manning parade their injuries all season to boost their legend and build an excuse. While Brady plays through the season quietly only to find out the serious injuries hes played though at seasons end. Tom is seen like the rich boy who won the lottery. Its hard for people to support or feel sympathy for a guy they percieve to be like that.

I agree, and the really funny thing about that to me has always been that, compared to Manning particular, Brady is the everyman. Brady wasn't heavily recruited out of high school, had to scrap his way up from the bottom of the depth chart at Michigan, and even after proving himself repeatedly they still tried to push him out the side door to make room for Drew Henson. He's spent the last 18 years as some form or another of underdog, constantly defying expectations and proving doubters wrong. He hasn't been handed a thing.

Meanwhile, Eli is the son of one NFL quarterback and the brother of another. He grew up in Louisiana as basically the closest thing the state has to royalty, and arrived at Tennessee as the golden child and anointed savior of the program. A billing that he repeatedly failed to live up to. He was the #1 pick in the draft, and immediately anointed the savior of Indianapolis before he'd stepped foot on their field. Where, again, he never quite delivered on the hype: only one SB win, which came courtesy of a defense which carried the team to the title in spite of his lackluster playoff performance. Along the way, he became as much a pitchman for ****ty products as a football player: the face of a ****ty insurance company, an even ****tier pizza chain, and the worst beer brewed in human history. He couldn't even celebrate his career-capping Super Bowl win without dragging Bud Light and Papa John's into it.

I think it's weirdly kinda telling that middle America sees more of its sensibilities reflected in Peyton than Brady. They're right, but not in a way that's at all flattering to them. They resent and underdog who achieved everything and has the audacity to just be himself, for whatever reason. Much better to make a few Bud Light ads and throw up a fake 'aw shucks' persona - then you can get away with pretty much anything and people will love you no matter what.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

? Andrew Smith

 

[ausbacker]

Brady Sr. delivers the best description of Mein Fuhrer:

“It’s the biggest frame-up in American sports history. It’s fraud. But Goodell has been caught in lies for so long now, whether it’s concussions or whatever else. You lie once, it’s bad. But he’s a habitual liar.”

Have a beer on me, Sir.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I liked this bit, pointing out that even if something happened it's not anything that hasn't already happened a million zillion times in pro football and no one ever cared before.

The leading voice in category B is John Teerlinck, a longtime NFL defensive line coach who retired in 2012 after 11 years with the Colts. In 27 total seasons in the league (four as a player, 23 on the sidelines), Teerlinck says he witnessed every sort of imaginable rules violation. Vaseline-coated jerseys? Check. Taping the practices of opposing teams? Check. Paying off players for vicious hits? Check. Deflating and inflating footballs? Check.

“Everyone—and I mean everyone—is guilty of doctoring and messing with footballs,” he says. “But the media makes a big deal out of something that’s not a big deal. At home games, I’ve seen teams take 50 footballs, put them in the sun, roll them around, scuff them up. I’ve seen kickers take 45-pound plates from the bench room, put the nose of the football through the weight and drop the ball through, just to break the nose off either end of the ball and un-stiff it. I can tell you stories about two-way glass divides where one team spies on the other. I can tell you about microphones in the visiting team’s locker room. I can tell you about guys coming in and taking pictures of what coaches write on the board. There’s no end to it.”

Were Teerlinck still coaching, he says he would have complained about the deflated footballs—“but not out of any real anger. I’d just want an edge.” Truth be told, the man who hated the majority of opposing quarterbacks (“It’s a position of wimps,” he says) doesn’t merely admire Brady. He loves him.

“When you’re good, people don’t like you,” says Teerlinck. “The cheating thing—that’s just bulls--t. Tom Brady is really good.”

 

[Tunescribe]

What the Brady haters quoted in that article don't seem to comprehend is the fact that Tom has busted his tail his whole adult life to get what he has and be where he is. He's a self-made success. He didn't inherit anything and nothing was handed to him.

 

[MitchKumstein]

The one person who comes off bad in that article is Tommy Shaw's wife.

The writer calls to interview Tommy and his wife is screaming in the background like a raving lunatic.

 

[IllegalContact]

I hate him cuz he stole my girlfriend

My whole life for that fact

 

[TB12TheGoat]

they don't like him because he is that guy in high school who would have ****ed their girlfriends and she would have enjoyed it

 

[MitchKumstein]

That article made a lot of good points, but the one thing that seemed to be a reach was that people don't like Brady because New Englanders had an attitude in the 1600s.

Come on

90% of the hatred of Brady is because of jealousy. It has nothing to do with our great great great great great great great great great grandparents

 

[IllegalContact]

they don't like him because he is that guy in high school who would have ****ed their girlfriends and she would have enjoyed it

Maybe not

 

[RobertWeathers]

The one person who comes off bad in that article is Tommy Shaw's wife.

The writer calls to interview Tommy and his wife is screaming in the background like a raving lunatic.

Jeanie Buss too. Ever since the father died and Kupchak was marginalized it's been the brother and her running that pile of cow dung known as the LA Lakers

 

[Schmo]

Wondering exactly what Tom did "wrong" in the Moynahan thing.

Right. I believe I've heard people say, "he dumped a pregnant woman." Which isn't the case, but probably the best made up excuse for not liking him as a person.

 

[Mike the Brit]

I think it's weirdly kinda telling that middle America sees more of its sensibilities reflected in Peyton than Brady.

"Middle America" thinks that Peyton eats breakfast at the IHOP every morning and spends his evenings helping out his buddy Papa John at his pizza parlor. And Brett Favre gets together with a few good old boys to play touch football in their jeans. And, and ...

 

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

I'm not really sure how one can "hate" Tom Brady. He's a class act that never let his fame outweigh his passion. Tom Brady just goes the extra mile to win and that's a good thing.

 

[Observer]

“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

? Andrew Smith

I like it. So Tom Brady is like Maths to a school student. Sure, they should appreciate it but the visceral reaction is to hate it .

 

[deroc5050]

Being a huge Brady fan, I don't think he is that funny or anything special personality wise. I find him a little bland and I don't care at all but I can see why other people might not like him. T Bag Manning is funnier and is good in front of the camera.

However there is no reason to hate the guy, thats mostly jealousy..

 

[RobertWeathers]

"Middle America" thinks that Peyton eats breakfast at the IHOP every morning and spends his evenings helping out his buddy Papa John at his pizza parlor. And Brett Favre gets together with a few good old boys to play touch football in their jeans. And, and ...

The new ad with Luck was equally as nauseating.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Being a huge Brady fan, I don't think he is that funny or anything special personality wise. I find him a little bland and I don't care at all but I can see why other people might not like him. T Bag Manning is funnier and is good in front of the camera.

However there is no reason to hate the guy, thats mostly jealousy..

Tom is reserved and a little stiff but I give him credit for the SNL appearance and a couple of the funnier ads that he has done.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Right. I believe I've heard people say, "he dumped a pregnant woman." Which isn't the case, but probably the best made up excuse for not liking him as a person.

Yeah, I'm sure it's been real chilly between them for years. . . .