Tom Brady’s been pretty busy since the Deflate-gate controversy
May 18, 2015 - 3:20 pm
Wanna get away? Tom Brady did after a week in which he was suspended four games from the NFL for his role in the Deflate-gate controversy, was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live” and was the subject of a derisive chant at a Boston Red Sox-Mariners game in Seattle.
To, um, decompress, the New England Patriots quarterback bolted to the Bahamas, where he went to a wedding with his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, and played golf with his pal, Michael Jordan. You have to feel for the poor guy.
During SNL’s season finale, Taran Killam turned on the charm as a buoyant Brady — “Please call me Tommy” — on “Weekend Update,” deftly avoiding questions about deflating balls from host Michael Che as he mentioned “Evan, my favorite Make-A-Wish child,” and made reference to Gisele.
“It’s a great question and I admire your passion,” a grinning Brady tells Che. “And I know my wife does, too.”
On Saturday night in Seattle, where Seahawks fans surely are still smarting from their team’s last-second loss to the Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX, Mariners fans at Safeco Field chanted “Brady cheated” when the Red Sox were at bat in the sixth inning.
Interestingly enough, less than 24 hours earlier, Seattle fans cheered when Nelson Cruz beat Boston with a walk-off hit — the same Cruz who served a 50-game suspension in 2013 for his role in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal.
Brady was busy licking his wounds with Jordan on the links — where the most deflated score wins.
Photos of Brady on the golf course provide clear evidence that he did not adhere to the dress code. Since it’s more probable than not that Brady was at least generally aware of the dress code, he should be prosecuted to the fullest for his role in Collar-gate.
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