Tom Brady Makes Me Care About Sports

My lovely boyfriend told me that my blog has been boring lately.  And seeing as he is the self-proclaimed #1 critic of my blog, I don't want him to be bored.  So I asked him what he wanted me two write about.  At first, he said, "hot girls." Uhh, no.  Then he said, "Tom Brady."  Hmm, I could work with that.

So, this one goes out to you, Bill.

Tom Brady.  He's sexy.  His girlfriend is Giselle Bundchen.  He's smart (graduated cum laude from Michigan).  His birthday is the day before mine (soulmates!).  And he's really good at football.  I'm pretty sure my bf has a mancrush on him, and I am completely ok with that.

I don't pay attention to sports at all.  I've barely been watching the Olympics.  But for some reason, Tom Brady has something that is appealing to everyone, even me.

For one thing, Esquire magazine put Brady at the top of their best-dressed list this month, beating out Jay-Z and Barack Obama.  I'm sure Giselle had something to do with that.  You can't have the world's most famous supermodel dating some schlumpy guy.  

But I want to know more about Tom Brady the person.  Yes, he won 3 super bowls, has a $60 million 10-year contract to play with the Patriots, blah blah...but what's he like?

Well, I youtubed him to find out, because there isn't much written about his personality.  From this 60 Minutes interview with him (and this video too), he seems like a pretty cool dude.  The whole fame thing hasn't gone to his head.  He said he can only go out to restaurants if he has "the energy to put a happy face on.  Sometimes [he doesn't] feel like doing that."  He didn't know being a football star would come with "all the extra baggage."

Aww.  

He also said that being named the most eligible bachelor doesn't help him sleep any better at night, but it is very flattering.  When the interviewer asked if he meant sleeping alone or not alone, Brady gave a good belly laugh.  Simply adorable.

At one point in the interview, Tom got deep.  "Why do I have three super bowl rings and still think there's something greater our there for me?  There's got to be more than this," he said, and added, "There's a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find."

The only tarnish on his image comes from his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, whom Brady dumped right after she became pregnant with his child.  I don't know if the baby was the actual cause of the breakup, but it was still a crappy thing to do.  Then he convienietly started dating a super model.  Nice, Tom.  It's ok, I still love you.

Old girlfriend

New girlfriend: UPGRADE