My distain of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady started long ago with his first Super Bowl win in 2001 over the St. Louis Rams. It was the first Super Bowl I remember. I was 6 years old and a huge Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk fan. They were “The Greatest Show on Turf,” and I was, so I thought, their biggest fan.
The game was tied at 17 with 1:30 left in the game, and Brady led his team down the field for the game-winning field goal. I didn’t really know who he was or what he would go on to do, but I knew that I hated Tom Brady.
I hate Tom Brady. There, I said it, and you probably have too. But if you do like Brady and think he is God’s gift to football and the greatest human alive, then you are wrong.
Since that moment in 2001, he has proven to me time after time that he a terrible person, and the Patriots are a terrible organization.
First off, they got in trouble for Spygate in 2007. I don’t know if Brady was directly involved or not, but he definitely benefited. If the Patriots benefited in any way by knowing signals and play calls, then so did their quarterback.
We don’t even know how bad Spygate really was or how long it went on because tapes were destroyed and a poor investigation didn’t uncover much at all.
Then there was Deflategate. The Wells Report came out and reported the Patriots probably did have something to do with the deflation of the footballs and gave Brady a four game suspension.
Again, we can’t say one way or the other that he directly had a hand in it or not, but it is fishy that controversy keeps surrounding him and this team.
I personally think he cheated, and there is no place in the league for that. He even destroyed his old cell phone in the middle of investigations to “protect his privacy.”
Now I get that, putting all the controversy aside, he is a great quarterback by the stats with all sorts of accolades and postseason success. Yes, he has won five Super Bowls and has four MVPs in those games, but that just means that he was PART of the best team in the league five times.
As for the Super Bowl MVPs, he is a quarterback, and quarterbacks get all the fame, glory, money and everything else. The position has seen 28 Super Bowl MVPs out of the 51 total Super Bowls.
And don’t forget, in each Super Bowl win, he was just a play or two from losing: Three field goal wins, one clutch play by his defense and an overtime win where the Falcons choked. It seems like things fall his way even when he doesn’t cheat.
I am a big believer in coaching and defense winning championships and looking back at past Super Bowls, the defense usually wins. Any look back shows that if a team has a great defense along with a solid quarterback, they can win.
People praise Brady like he is the greatest player ever, but he has been blessed to be in the best situation that any quarterback has ever been a part of. He has a great coach and organization that are willing to cheat for wins. He has been accompanied by several great defenses that allowed a guy like Matt Cassel to win 10 games.
Put the greatest quarterback of all time in that spot, and he, Peyton Manning, would have at least seven Super Bowl rings.
Tom Brady is the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. Brady led his team to a Super Bowl victory over the Atlanta Falcons Sunday. It was Brady’s fifth career Super Bowl win.
