Tom Brady Engages in Weird, Profane 'I'm Not Soft!' Argument with Mystery Critics
It would be an impossibly futile task to attempt to chronicle and categorize every ridiculous criticism ever leveled at Tom Brady over the course of two brilliant decades of football performance capped by an incredible seven Super Bowl titles.
"Impossibly futile'' for me. And "impossibly future'' for Brady, too.
So what is motivating him to attempt to try, complete with an overwrought response stuffed with needless profanities?
“Everyone thinks I was a (p-word) out there!'' Brady said with defiance on his "Let's Go!" podcast. "I took every single (hit) and got my (butt) up!''
Indeed he did, as a young guy maturing into the role of the New England Patriots' GOAT, as a guy in the prime of his career who was an unbeatable an NFL'er who ever played, and even at the end, beyond the age of 40, doing it one more time as the universally respected leader of a Tampa Bay title team.
So why is Brady allowing himself, at the tender age of 45, to morph into "Old Man Shaking Fist At Clouds''?
Did some dunce, or some collection of dunces, every really believe Brady was "soft''? His (conspiracy-theorist?) opponents might argue that especially as he aged, the NFL and its officials found ways to "protect'' him.
But "soft''? Newsflash: I've covered the NFL for 40 years. I have never, not once, encountered a professional player who was physically "soft.''
Brady, now well into retirement and into a number of other exploits that next year will include becoming the lead analyst on FOX Sports, should rest comfortable with the knowledge that no thinking sports fan thought he lacked toughness.
Still, he wants it out there.
“I never wanted a defensive player saying ‘I knocked the (bleep) out of him and he didn’t get up,’'' Tom said. "So I made sure I got up.”
Yup. We know, Tom. And so does everybody else.
