Of course, Deflategate was all about Tom Brady getting others to continually sacrifice for his benefit, and then casting them aside the moment he’s called upon to make any sacrifice for theirs.
I submit that there’s a direct line between the Brady who threw two lowly Patriots employees under the bus in 2015, when the league discovered they were helping him cheat by deflating footballs, and the one who abandoned his wife and kids to return to football last year, after promising them he would retire.
Why is Brady’s career as questionable as his marriage?
More to the point, though, the personal, social, and political ramifications of that NFL scandal reverberates even to this day.
After all, the finding of the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds’s name as the home run king. Indeed, no less a person than Roger Maris’s son is leading the chorus of those hailing New York Yankees star Aaron Judge as the new king for slamming home run #62 last night. This, even though Bonds remains the asterisk leader with 73.
The point is that, by the same token, fairness requires the findings of the Wells investigation into Deflategate put an asterisk next to Tom Brady’s name as football’s GOAT. Yet this has not happened. This golden boy is getting a pass…
In other words, besides being a cheater who too often prospered, it turns out Brady is a selfish man child – who loves the rush he gets from playing football more than the love he could ever get from being a family man.
Of course Gisele is leaving him because she finally realized what was plain for all to see: All of Tom’s talk about needing to give her a chance to focus on her “time-sensitive” career, and giving him time to spend with his kids, was all BS.
In fact, he is a narcissistic SOB who just couldn’t give up being the center of all the attention – the long-suffering needs of his wife and children be damned.
What about that $375 million contract ‘extension’?
Only this explains 45-year-old Brady not just un-retiring within weeks (to play one more lousy year knowing it could cost him his marriage), but signing a contract to sit in the NFL booth as an analyst as soon as he retires, which will be tantamount to playing quarterback for another 10 years.
Apropos of which, though, why isn’t there more outrage about the affirmative-action program for whites only that enabled Brady to sign a $375 million contract to do so with no experience?
After all, nearly 60% of the NFL players the league depends to generate billions in revenue are black. But only former white players like Brady, Troy Aikman, and Tony Romo are getting these cushy, lucrative analyst jobs; you know, the way only white guys like them once got to play quarterback.
iPINIONS says, if this doesn’t reek of politics, nothing does…
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