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Your leading source for football injuries, TMZ.com, last night had video of Tom Brady in a boot as he went to visit his girlfriend Gisele Bundchen in New York.
Today, the site update’s Brady’s look, revealing that the Pats QB had the boot off for his dinner date last night.
Either Brady’s condition improved in a matter of hours or Bundchen has developed a serious foot fetish. Or for Brady’s sake, both.
Playing with a hurt knee during Sunday’s loss to the Patriots, Philip Rivers showed he had a lot of guts. But what the Chargers QB didn’t have was a working ACL.
The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE scopes out news that the anterior cruciate ligament in the San Diego signal caller’s right knee is “totally gone,” and he’ll have to undergo reconstructive surgery. Although his recovery time is unknown, the Chargers QB expects to be 100% healthy before the start of next season.
Rivers played the entire game with a missing ACL, but didn’t come clean about his true injury until Monday, earlier saying it was just a ’sprained MCL’.
Well, if Bill Belichick can be so secretive about his players’ bumps and bruises, why not San Diego?
We think we’ve found the media’s designated goto quote for the Super Bowl: Laurence Maroney.
An hour-long sitdown between ESPN’s Emmitt Smith and Maroney would provide the funniest television this side of Neil Everett’s latest on-set ensemble.
(Video via AWFUL ANNOUNCING)
HOT FOOT BLOG, via DEADSPIN, has the reason we should look to mid-’80s movies for guidance in NFL handicapping:
Speaking of ’80s movies, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find anything about the Bolts-Pats game, except for this:
Subtitle: “The Philip Rivers story“
The BOSTON HERALD reminds us why we absolutely adore Dane “I’m getting fat so I’ll grow a beard” Cook. He was somehow allowed on the field before the Pats-Bolts game:
(Cook flanked by Nick Bakay look-alike contest winner)
“Dane Cook, wearing a beard and a snorkel jacket for the 9-degree wind chill, flew in for the championship tilt. He was on the field with Bob, Myra and Jonathan Kraft before the game, taking pictures of himself with his cell phone and posing with state Treasurer Tim Cahill.“
Note: Cook, according to Nick Hardwick, was (sadly) the only person on the field not cheap-shotted by Richard Seymour yesterday.
On a blustery Sunday night in northeast Wisconsin, it was third Tynes the charm for the New York Football Giants. We imagine Seinfeld fan Eli Manning gave this post-game greeting to Brett Favre:
Guess Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila’s cinema inspiration didn’t work. While the Green Bay Packers feel blue about their season suddenly ceasing, the Giants are delightedly destined for the Arizona desert - where they can thaw out their significant others.
As AWFUL ANNOUNCING discovers, the NFL Championship result wasn’t a big surprise to NFL analyst Emmitt Smith, who made this bold pre-game prediction about the G-Men:
After the Patriots slowly strangled the Chargers today, the BOSTON HERALD’s John Tomase had this postgame reax from San Diego Chargers center Nick Hardwick, on Patriots defensive end Richard Seymour: “There are 10 (bleeping) good players on that team. But Richard Seymour is a dirty, cheap, little pompous (expletive).”
“He’s cheap and dirty and the head man just let him get away with it the whole time. They’ve got 10 great players on that team and when Jarvis Green comes on the field, they’ve got 11 great players who compete how you’re supposed to play. But Richard Seymour is the biggest (expletive) I’ve ever played.”
“Head slapping, foot stomping in the pile, running by and throwing punches in your back. He’s a (expletive). … There were a lot of things he did. There’s a field goal where he was stomping feet. Who stomps feet? And the officials weren’t doing anything about it. He plays like a punk.”
We’re guessing Mr. Hardwick probably would have had a different choice of words (if any at all) if he’d had some time to cool off after the game. Or if the Bolts had won.
We also imagine CBS execs probably felt similarly about Dan Marino after his cell phone went off three times during the halftime show.
Gordon Keith of KTCK-AM in Dallas helps the Cowboys celebrate their newest banner (wonder if that’ll make the new stadium?):
And in the wake of Jerry Jones giving Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Jason Garrett a $3M per season contract, Keith has a SAP photo that indicates Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips has a possible acting career to fall back on:
The best thing about the Great Gordo’s epic gallery of Cowboys photos? The station he works for, KTCK, broadcasts the Cowboys games (hope Jer doesn’t see them!).
Question: Why did the NFL schedule the NFC championship game as a night game? Why not stage the AFC game on Saturday afternoon and the NFC Game on Sunday afternoon? Or start the AFC game earlier so the Packers-Giants game wouldn’t be played in sub-zero temperatures? (yeah, we know about the TV ratings/money thing)
We’re not worried about the players, we’re worried about the fans (who drink to much and wear too little).
Oh yeah, and the cameramen. USA TODAY has a note today Bob Wishnie, who will be manning the moving cart along the sideline for Sunday night’s game - and his profoundly preventive method of dress.
WLUK-TV in Green Bay is undertaking a lame-o promotion doing its part to try to help the Packers in their Super Bowl bid against the Giants on Sunday.
WLUK GM Jay Zollar announced on-air last night that the station is pulling a “Seinfeld” episode scheduled for Saturday because the program is apparently Eli Manning’s favorite TV show. The thought being that Manning will be watching TV in his hotel room in Green Bay at that time (assuming he can get it on his rabbit eared-Hitachi at the Super 8).
Not all that funny or interesting, unless you live in the Bay. But the TV station did give us one measure of amusement in the announcement. The poll to decide which show should take the place of the Seinfeld episode has an Emmitt Smith infomercial for “The Good Feet Store” as an option.
Not surprisingly, that possibility has been blowed up by Green Bay fans.
