In a new GQ interview, the quarterback lost his cool when writer Chuck Klosterman asked him simply whether he was “generally aware” or not that New England Patriots locker room attendants had been flouting league rules by lowering the pressure in game balls to give the team an unfair advantage.
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Tom Brady has no political ambitions. When one is named Man of the Year for a publication such as GQ, the understanding is that an interview and/or photoshoot will be conducted so people can read about said Man and hopefully learn something new. And that was the subtext underlying the NFL’s offseason DeflateGate scandal: Tom Brady and the Patriots have not yet lost a game in 2015.
There’s one element of the Wells Report that I find fascinating: The report concludes that you had a “general awareness” of the footballs being deflated.
Five rings? Or invisible Mondo Burger? Oh, and just in case you don’t care about any of that, GQ also captured a bunch of photos of Brady that just scream “MEME ME!”
True to his word, Klosterman’s profile can be distilled to this: Brady’s refusal to answer his questions is a sign of guilt.
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On if he would ever go into politics: “There is 0.000 chance of me ever wanting to do that”. I think in politics, half the people are gonna like you and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say …
“But if I ask you whether or not you were generally aware of something and you refuse to respond, any rational person is going to think you’re hiding something”. And there’s nothing more that I really want to add to the subject.
I’m sorry, ESPN. Were you saying something about Peyton Manning still being the greatest quarterback of all time? Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish.
“Here’s the thing: If we don’t talk about this, the fact that you refused to talk about it will end up as the center of the story”. You know how well you prepared.
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Klosterman, realizing he was getting nowhere, played the “If you don’t talk about this with me, I’ll write negatively about you…” card. “If there were, everyone would choose the right answers”. There’s a tangible score.
