Patriots QB Tom Brady says today's NFL is simply 'more glorified college football'

With more college schemes coming to the NFL, players are taking notice as to how similar the professional game is to collegiate football in 2018. Tom Brady is one of them. During Brady’s weekly Monday interview on WEEI, the 19-year veteran had this to say about today’s day-in-age in the NFL:

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Gisele Bundchen Says Tom Brady Has Suffered Multiple Unreported Brain Injuries

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who is married to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning. At one point, Rose asked Bundchen if she wants Brady to retire from football, and she told Rose that she does worry about Brady because of all the concussions he’s had.

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The Patriots Will Soon Have To Choose Between Tom Brady And Jimmy Garoppolo

Now that the draft has come and gone without a Jimmy Garoppolo trade, it’s time to wonder what the Patriots’ end game is here. Because they’re going to have one big-ass decision to make in the months ahead. Tom E. Curran of CSN New England calls what’s potentially brewing in Foxboro “a tsunami,” and he’s not…

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Why Defend Tom Brady's Shady Charity Dealings?

Over the weekend, the Boston Globe published a story about Tom Brady’s dealings with Best Buddies, a nonprofit dedicated to helping intellectually and developmentally disabled people that Brady has lent his time and image to. The Globe discovered that Best Buddies has been making regular payments to Brady’s personal…

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Citing Family Reasons, Tom Brady Will Not Attend Patriots' White House Ceremony

Later today, the New England Patriots will celebrate their championship at the White House in a ceremony led by Donald Trump. A handful of players have already announced their intentions to skip the visit, some offering no public explanation, and other making it quite clear that it’s about politics. QB Tom Brady just…

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Tom Brady’s Expensive Vegan Kibble Is Bland And Revolting

Tom Brady, husband of supermodel Gisele Bündchen, lent his name to one of those companies that send boxes of food to your home for exorbitant fees. Brady and Bündchen employ a personal chef who makes them all sorts of wacky vegan meals that also don’t include things like iodized salt and nightshades, because they have…

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Bill Belichick Probably Wishes All Of His Interviews Could Be Simple Word Associations

In a 16-minute, boring as hell interview with CNBC’s Suzy Welch, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, looking spiffy-casual in jeans and a button-front, tried his best to sound like a normal person, talking about his dad and leadership and Tom Brady (who he said was a hard worker, “not a great natural athlete”).…

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SI Uncovers The Brady Jersey Thief’s Ebay Feedback Page

Robert Klemko and Jenny Vrentas have a deep dive today on the Tom Brady Super Bowl jersey theft—it’s even part of Sports Illustrated’s “True Crime” series —and it’s an interesting look at the complicated steps law enforcement had to take in order to retrieve the Super Bowl LI jersey. Cops recovered it, along with…

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The Case Of The Missing Tom Brady Super Bowl Jersey Has Only Gotten Better

Earlier today, the NFL announced that authorities had recovered Tom Brady’s missing Super Bowl LI jersey, as well as the quarterback’s jersey from Super Bowl XLIX. As more evidence about the case has been released, the story has gotten even more bizarre.

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Peter King Profiles Tom Brady, Who Drinks Salt And Smiles And Therefore Is A Genius

Of all the clichés of the hack celebrity profile, perhaps the most overdone is the one where the writer opens with an observation of the famous person’s eating or drinking behavior from across a table. You’ve encountered this countless times, I’m sure: the bombshell sex-symbol tearing lustily into an implausibly huge,…

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No One Is Happy For The Patriots

Let’s start with the obvious, which is that (gun to head) the Patriots are the greatest dynasty in NFL history. Bill Belichick is the greatest coach in history. Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in history, with last night being the definitive instance of him performing football miracles with little more than

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A Timeline Of Proposed Super Bowl 51 Headlines From Last Night

The Deadspin staff convened in our staff chatroom last night to discuss and coordinate our coverage of Super Bowl 51 while we all watched it from our various homes and/or Super Bowl parties. As the game unfolded, staffers suggested various headlines for our postgame story; I’ve compiled them into a grimly illuminating…

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Julian Edelman Caught That Somehow

So, there it is, right there in the above photo. One inch, maybe two, between football and turf? Some barely countable fraction of a second that felt like it took forever as the ball hung, seemingly unmoored from gravity, precisely long enough for Julian Edelman to double-clutch. An instantly iconic catch, equal parts…

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Let's Enjoy The Play That Left Tom Brady In The Dust

We all know what happened in the end, but let’s not forget that before orchestrating an instantly-legendary comeback against the Atlanta Falcons and proving that freedom’s enemies will always thrive in 2017, Tom Brady spent the Super Bowl playing like a god damn jamoke, to the joy of millions. With just over two…

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Donald Trump Praises Tom Brady, Vladimir Putin In Batshit Super Bowl Interview

The great tradition of powerful people turning to sports reporters so they can seem folksy—aka avoiding any questions or followups of significant consequence—continued this Super Bowl with our nation’s sentient chancre fielding questions from Jim Gray on Westwood One Sports radio. The interview was recorded before the…

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Tom Brady's Pick Six, As Heard Around The World

So far the biggest moment of tonight’s Super Bowl was Tom Brady throwing a pick-six. For the purposes of critical and educational analysis, we allow you to listen to and discuss the play as it was called by announcers on Fox Deportes, BBC 1, PULS 4 (Austria), and Televisa (Mexico). Which broadcasters called it best?

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Tom Brady And Dwight Freeney Play Video Game On Conan; Marshawn Lynch Steals Show

Takeaways from Conan O’Brien’s lasted edition of the nowannual Super Bowl Clueless Gamer segment: the Patriots are going to beat the Falcons; Tom Brady comes off as empty-headed as you’d imagine; Marshawn Lynch is still the best.

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