Count Tom Brady as a believer in the presidential candidate’s golf performance.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady may have (or may not have) already given his presidential endorsement but that doesn’t mean that Brady himself is thinking of getting into politics when his football career is over. The reasons? Brady cited ongoing litigation. He predicted anything he said would turn into a distraction for his teammates. When Klosterman presses the issue multiple times, Brady says, “Chuck, go read the transcript from a five-hour appeal hearing”.
Klosterman, realizing he was getting nowhere, played the “If you don’t talk about this with me, I’ll write negatively about you…” card.
There was this from Klosterman. You know how well you prepared. It’s a pretty straightforward question. They’re kind of actually gaudy and they attract a lot of attention if you’re wearing them around, because they’re just enormous. You have no comments on any of that?
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. When I ask, “Were you generally aware that this was happening”, what is the answer?
I’m sorry, ESPN. Were you saying something about Peyton Manning still being the greatest quarterback of all time? I guess it depends on how you define the word generally. But was that categorization true or false? That’s because you don’t ring the “Cheater!” alarm on a team you keep beating.
“I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully”, Brady answered. But that it’s ok, because cheaters can still be roguishly awesome, too. In the story, Klosterman points out that Brady’s team agreed to a no-holds-barred Q&A with GQ.
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But Brady tells GQ… even the most successful politicians are never really accepted as TOTAL WINNERS… and that bothers him, since he’s a guy who lives and dies by a scoreboard.
