Brady’s wife on Super Bowl loss: He can’t throw the f***ing ball and catch it too

posted at 4:20 pm on February 6, 2012 by Allahpundit

You know what the worst part of this is? She’s standing right next to at least one other player’s wife when she says it. I’m 99 percent sure that’s Mrs. Vince Wilfork beside her; any Pats fans out there recognize any wide receivers’ significant others in the vicinity?

The reaction from his teammates is just what you’d expect. TMZ’s inevitable headline: “The Yoko Ono of the Patriots.” The quote:

As Bundchen made her way through Lucas Oil Stadium, a fan yelled, “Eli rules!” and “Eli owns your husband!” With that it was go time — and the Patriots’ receivers were going right under a bus.

“You [have] to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball,” she replied (via TheInsider.com). “My husband cannot [bleeping] throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.”

I can’t believe it either. Welker’s getting all of the heat for his drop at the 20 on the penultimate drive that would have put the game away, but the first two passes of the final drive were also dropped — one by Branch (after the ball was tipped, I think) and the other by Hernandez. Brady ended up converting on fourth down but that was 10 seconds and who knows how many yards squandered when they had no margin for error. Any sympathy for Gisele here, then? A billionaire supermodel and her superstar quarterback husband aren’t natural objects for compassion and obviously she should have kept her mouth shut while she was around the other players’ wives. But (a) she’s got some jackhole heckling her about how Eli owns her husband, (b) she’s got her back to the camera so she wasn’t trying to broadcast this sentiment for popular consumption, and (c) …she’s right. Brady screwed up with the first-quarter grounding call and later the interception to Blackburn but those were all catchable balls at the end, if not the prettiest passes he’s ever thrown. Go figure that Mrs. Brady might show a flash of defensiveness on his behalf when she’s got drunks taunting her about how it’s all his fault.

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Bmore on February 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM

It’s an outrageously, outrageous outrage! /

TarheelBen on February 1, 2013 at 6:05 PM

I don’t know if anyone else pointed out the historically interlaced vibe of VWs to the drug scene of the 60s, and the ganja ding of the Jamaaican man.

That aside, people are too hung up on being insulted.

RalphyBoy on February 1, 2013 at 7:23 PM

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” – Theodore Dalrymple

Django on February 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM

That was kinda interesting. Thanks for posting that.

Axe on February 1, 2013 at 9:22 PM

Rascism is in the eye of the beholder.

fenryys on February 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM

And racism.

fenryys on February 1, 2013 at 10:39 PM

ras clot!!!

driguana on February 1, 2013 at 11:06 PM

This PC crap is the result of too many Sociology degrees and not enough real jobs.

gator70 on February 2, 2013 at 8:25 AM

Maybe someone already pointed this out but has anyone noticed that the three quoted offendees are female? Why are women so damned uptight?

princetrumpet on February 2, 2013 at 8:30 AM

If I made a list of the 500 most offensive or insulting ads on TV today, this would not be among them. It wouldn’t make me buy a VW, but it wouldn’t make me wish never to buy one, either. A great many TV ads are so stupid and intelligence-insulting that I simply decide their product is not one I could agree to support.

Freelancer on February 3, 2013 at 11:04 AM

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