Living It Up

Dan Koppen wears a pic of Tom Brady on his back from a GQ article.




Yeah. That's a goat in his hands. Center Dan Koppen wore the picture on his back a few days ago in practice, forcing Brady to see the picture with every snap. The pictures are said to be very homoerotic, which is fine, just not so much when it involves your starting quarterback.

Brady said some things that made me proud, and admitted what we all know, but quickly forget about in the world of the young, rich and famous. They're just like us, and Brady wants everyone to know that. Everything is the same, except the millions of dollars in his bank account that takes all the stress mostly out of life.

The funny thing about the article is how he now wants to distance himself from "The Golden Boy" image. The interviewer cornered him unfairly though, by semi-making him admit to enjoying internet porn. Which I might add, I enjoy as well. Here are the best parts of the article.
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So it goes in our conversation: "Your golden-boy image--" I begin to say.

"I hate that golden-boy image!" he interjects. "I don't look at myself like that at all! For me to believe I can't do anything wrong, I think that's all bullshit. I'm 27 years old, I go do the same shit every 27-year-old guy does, I mean, I drink, I--"

"Search the Internet for porn?"

"Everything," he says. "I am no different."

When his Gap ad came out, Brady's teammates papered the training room with copies of it; they also decorated his locker with a pair of Jockey shorts in homage to his appearance on SNL. "I knew that was coming," Brady says with resignation. "I knew what it was about."

On motivationon....

"What really motivates me," he says, "is self-doubt. And I don't know why it's always there." He ponders this, his voice lofting up into the interrogative: "Sometimes I wish it weren't there? I wish I had complete and total confidence? I'd be interested to talk to some other athletes, like I'm watching Tiger Woods yesterday, who doesn't seem to think he'll ever lose.
"For me," Brady says, "when you doubt yourself, you're always challenging yourself."

Well, you can't argue with what works. As last January's play-offs began, Manning's mighty Colts stormed into the Patriots' Gillette Stadium like a team on a mission, having completely dismantled the Denver Broncos the week before. "I was like, 'Man, we've got a division game against the Colts!' " Brady says, quavering on the last word like a patsy Division III QB anticipating a drubbing at the hands of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Yet Brady mustered a typically effective performance, engineering long, grind-it-out scoring drives that kept Manning off the field, and neutered the Colts juggernaut. From there, the AFC championship game against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the game after that--a little exhibition known as the Super Bowl--were a breeze. "After Pittsburgh," he says, the relief audible in his voice, "I was like, 'Okay, now we're in the Super Bowl; I've got it all worked out.' "

It's a telling comment on Brady's short, incredibly successful career that he should find his ultimate comfort level playing in one of the most watched television events of the year.
Excerpts by David Kamp______________

The guy is just the man. No if's ands, or buts about it. What makes him the best, is that he's not the best. If that makes any sense? So, he is constantly striving to be the best. It's pretty fun having him as the quarterback for your team.

The only question I have, is why the homo-erotic pictures to such a great article? Aw, who am I kidding? I'd do the same thing if I could.

Yikes!