Trouble In Paradise
Hey, it’s a walking cast, he’s carrying a dufflebag and flowers for the supermodel. How bad could it possibly be? (Not that bad, apparently. See UPDATE) Boston Herald:
The Patriots [team stats]’ hopes for a fourth Super Bowl title in seven years and an unprecedented 19-0 season certainly hit a major speed bump yesterday, as Tom Brady [stats] was spotted wearing what appears to be a walking cast on his right foot.
Two weeks before a date with the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII isn’t the best time for the quarterback who runs the league’s most prolific offense, not to mention the player the Patriots can least afford to lose, to turn up with an injury problem.
A video taken of Brady in New York yesterday, which is available on TMZ.com, shows the NFL’s MVP returning to girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment. He’s dressed in dark glasses and a black hoodie with a coat over it, walking gingerly on the sidewalk after emerging from a black SUV parked on the street.
The walking cast clearly is visible below the denim jeans he is wearing. He has a white sneaker on his other foot. The video has him carrying a bouquet of flowers, slowly moving up the steps to Bundchen’s West Village apartment.
During his weekly appearance on WEEI’s “Dennis and Callahan” show, Brady didn’t dismiss the notion he had suffered some type of leg injury during Sunday’s AFC Championship win over the San Diego Chargers.
Brady was asked to respond to reports of an observer noticing that he was a little gimpy at one point during the game, and was examined by a doctor. He paused a bit before answering.
“Ah, you know, there’s always bumps and bruises. I’ll be ready for the Super Bowl,” Brady said, when asked point-blank if he had a leg injury. “I’m not worried about that. I’m not missing this one. I’d have to be on a stretcher to miss this one. There will be treatment this week. In games like this, you get a little nicked up. It’s nothing serious.”
The Patriots had no comment.
Hobbled hero* art at el Heraldo.
UPDATE: How bad? Not that bad, apparently. Brady swaps boots. Herald:
Hours after sending Patriots fans everywhere into a panic when he was photographed in New York sporting a removable cast on his right foot, Brady was captured again wearing what looked like regular old cowboy boots as he left dinner with girlfriend Gisele Bundchen.
Brady reportedly left the East Village nightspot Butter after midnight. It’s unclear how pronounced his limp was, though certainly it’s a good sign that he had shed the walking boot, a device that could be a sign of anything from an Achilles’ problem to an ankle sprain.
There’s boot art.
Some people are saying it could be the best Superbowl ever, with the perfect team up against an underdog upstart who played a heck of a game against Green Bay the other night. Then, there’s that Boston-New York thing, for people who care about that. Mainly people in Boston. I barely get the point of the game, let alone the history, so no opinion re momentousness. I love watching these guys do this, though.
* Lower-grade figurative sports variety, not to be confused with the actual 9/11, Iraqistan variety.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:41 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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January 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
What’s the problem? They’ll shoot him up with steroids and painkillers and he won’t feel a thing.
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