So being the jersey hawk that I am, I decided to meander over to NFL.com's jersey selection and check out what they were selling to the loyal fans of the best league in the world. As I'm scrolling through, checking out different jerseys for different players (but not really intending to buy any of them) I come across what you see in the bottom-right corner of this picture here. Notice a difference? Every damn player on this whole page is represented by the same type of jersey for the thumbnail. Except for Tom Brady. To see Brady's jerseys, you have to click on a picture of a women's jersey for Brady. I wonder if he signed off on this (I wouldn't be surprised, actually). Is this subliminal messaging by the NFL? Are they trying to say that our QB is a prima donna pretty boy now? Sure, he probably (definitely) sells more women's jerseys than any player in the league. Chicks dig Brady. I understand that. But come on. Just about every player on that page is represented by a standard photo of an authentic style jersey. The jersey the player actually wears. Except Brady and a few others. Who are they? Well, Wes Welker is one of them. Represented by a picture of a damn T-Shirt! Are you for real, NFL? Is there any particular reason you couldn't just use pictures of the jerseys when I'm searching in the player jersey selection? Is that so much to ask? Troy Polamalu is represented by some strange picture of a bobblehead or something. Philip Rivers by a framed picture of himself. Why? I'm shopping for jerseys. You are misleading me.
Anyway, just wanted to rant about that real quick and reiterate the fact that it doesn't matter who thinks Tom Brady is a pretty boy. He's going to win a Patriots-Packers Super Bowl this season and beat out NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers to win his third Super Bowl MVP award. You can go ahead and copy-paste this paragraph and stick it somewhere safe. Then you can run back to me and call me Nostradamus in February. Or, if you have the audacity, you can bookmark this page and criticize me when I'm wrong. I don't really care what you do with it, but when I'm right, you know I'm going to come straight back to this page and quote what I said on August 27th, 2010. That is all.
Hahahaha those are very telling pictures. I agree Brady is definitely a pretty boy off the field, but I'm not buying the claim some people make that he's too much of a pretty boy to win championships anymore. So I'm calling he wins the Super Bowl this year now that he's in his second year back from major knee surgery (kind of like Peyton, who had knee surgery before the '08 season and ensued to have his 2nd lowest TD total of his career. Then in '09, second year back from the knee surgery, he won NFL MVP.)
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