Tom Brady Wont Shake Hands Because He Is A Giant Baby
So on Monday Night the Rams and the Bucs duked it out for NFC playoff positioning in a pretty great game. The Rams kind of solidified that they aren’t just recipients of an easy schedule, they are actually a pretty good team capable of winning tough games despite mistakes. The Bucs kind of solidified that although they have all the potential in the world, they are still a hastily thrown together superteam which hasn’t quite managed to come together as a unit full time.
A small storyline that came out of the game was that Tom Brady left Goff hanging. This probably wouldn’t be notable except it is the second time he’s left an opposing QB hanging at midfield looking for a handshake after his team took an L this season. The first instance was the loss to Nick Foles and the Bears. People noticed it then because Brady famously left Foles at the altar after the Eagles Super Bowl win. Tom Brady being a petulant baby and refusing to be a good sport is now a certified trend. It’s not a big story, but people have noticed. Mostly Tom Brady haters.
As a well-established Tom Brady hater, you may be expecting me to follow this up and mock the man for his tiny penis and poor sportsmanship. I am here to tell you that actually, Tom Brady not shaking hands doesn’t bother me at all. I have no problem with it. Do I think he’s a giant baby? Yes. Do I think he’s a poor sport? Yes. Do I think he’s a snake oil salesman who sells bullshit products to suckers of his fan club as a grift? You bet I do. Do I want him to be a good sport and shake opposing hands like an adult? Nope! I love that Tom Brady is a petulant child who throws baby tantrums and acts like a weeny when stuff doesn’t go his way. It makes him more fun to hate. It makes him a good heel. It’s much easier to say “Fuck Tom Brady that classless piece of shit” when he’s being a classless piece of shit than when he’s smiling and showing respect to the people who beat him.
What I do want to push back against is some of the coverage criticizing him for it. A lot of points that people have said are valid. Cam Newton and his type (the outspoken QB with personality) would get eviscerated for any show of poor sportsmanship. Cam, Baker, OBJ, hell even Kirk Cousins have faced stupid criticism from the media for the crime of showing emotions. Yeah, it’s bull that Tom can get away with this because he’s Tom Brady.
Thing is…I’m not sure he does get away with it? One of the downsides to being Tom Brady is he gets far too much attention regardless of what he does. Would other QBs get maligned for not shaking hands? I…don’t honestly know, because it’s never been a story for another QB as far as I can recollect. Maybe not shaking hands is semi-common but we only notice Tom Brady not do it because he’s Tom Brady. Tom is not “getting away” with abandoning Goff and Foles like the chump he is, he’s actively getting criticized for it. The fact that people even noticed, even bring it up in conversation, even use it against him is proof he’s not really getting away with anything.I’ve seen Tom Brady get criticized for “shit that other players couldn’t get away with” more than I’ve seen most other players actually get criticized for doing something.
Do these Tom Brady haters just wish that he’d get more criticism for it? I love to shit on Tom Brady, it’s a personal pastime, I put it on my resume under “hobbies” but for fucks sake, it’s a missed handshake. It’s not like he went up to Goff and stabbed him while crying that the game was rigged and he wanted a score recount. He just pissed off into the locker room because he’s a weeny who has broke competitor brain and can’t take an L. It’s not really worth much outrage. Just call him a spoiled brat boy who kisses his son too long and move on to the next story.
The real takeaway I have from this silly little narrative isn’t that Tom Brady needs to be a man and shake more hands, it’s that the media needs to stop holding players so accountable for emotion in the first place. Let Tom Brady be a petulant child who takes his ball and runs home when he loses, it’s part of what makes him fun. Let OBJ be a goof. Let Baker wake up dangerous. Let players be themselves more, and embrace the show.
Also fuck Tom Brady, hope he runs home and trips and falls in a puddle of mud. Then even his son won’t kiss him.
What? Tom Brady being an asshole? No way?
Tom Brady is a good sportsman, Cousins, Newton, Baker, and OBJ are assholes (sarcasm)
The media will criticize anyone, even though Tom Brady should fall in a mud puddle.
Tommy boy lost one of his rings in New England so he’s actively trying to go back by acting like a baby.
Next time the bucs lose draw tom brady as a baby with a super bowl ring in his mouth (Preferably if he loses to another superbowl champion so make him suck that ring)
Brady’s behavior is actually worse than Newton, etc. doing the same exact thing. Brady’s white, and the sternly respectful handshake is as sacred as the Bible if you’re white.
While always game for a “F&$ Tom Brady” story, I’m actually willing to give him the benefit of the doubt here. It’s a pandemic, the singular focus of the nation (outside of tin foil hat wearing Election Denying Trump Cultists) is “DON’T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE!”
The question is, does Tom Brady run to the center of the field to shake hands when he WINS a game? I haven’t seen him win one this year. I’ve actually never seen him win a Super Bowl. I saw Vinatieri beat the Rams in ’01, I saw Tom Go-A-Bradying in ’07 and ’11 when da Giants made him cwy on da gwound, and I was forced to watch the Yucky Eagles/Pats game because there was a free buffet at a local bbq restaurant, and free food is worth watching two teams I loathe.
So anyway, what does it look like when Brady puts down the walker and chokes up a win? If he goes in Predator mode and hunts down opponents to shake hands, fuck him right to hell. Sidenote, it cracks me up that only a few weeks ago people were trying to argue Brady as an MVP candidate. Skip with his “WAHHH!! He leads all QBs in yards through the air, even though his other stats suck! WAhhh!” Yea, how’s the downfield completion percentage working for you now, Skippy? XD He’s like 1 out of 50 with 6 INTs or something ridiculous? XD XD
” I haven’t seen him win one this year.”
keep going, I’m almost there!
Don’t give him the benefit of the doubt for Covid. It’s only on losses. He shook hands and chatted up Herbert for a while. He shook hands with Drew Brees after the Saints losses, but something tells me he respects Drew Brees. He was only a petulant baby to Foles and Goff so far.
Something about Brady feels like he’s probably a covid truther too
Ok, then screw that guy 15 ways to Sunday. Wanker. Walking into people’s apartments, ignoring rules about being out in public parks, he’s totally a covid truther. His website probably hocks covid cures. “With the purest bleach from my friend Donald, it goes right into your veins and cleans you… from the inside out!”
Well… he was an MVP candidate a few weeks ago. It wasn’t Skip Bayless saying that. Most analysts were outside of Shannon Sharpe and a few others. I would have still gone Mahomes or Wilson at that point, but he was 100% in the conversation.
Since then? Hell no, not even close.
I love it I love it I love it there’s nothing better than seeing a team that was hyped up fall down I hope to god that they miss the playoffs. I love it may chaos rule
I’m always down for some Brady mocking, but I won’t get on him for this for the same reason I’ve always given him and Peyton a pass for yelling at their receivers on the sideline and Sherman a pass for yelling about how Crabtree was a mediocre receiver at the end of that NFC Championship game or Cam for sulking on the sidelines when the Panthers were losing. It’s heat of the moment, guys amping up their competitiveness for each play and then they’re supposed to shut it down at the whistle? Nah. If two hours later they’re still acting like babies then by all means criticise them for it. But during the game and immediately afterward? Not at all
I remember the flak Brady had just before SB 42 game began when he didn’t shake Eli’s hand. In fairness to Brady I don’t think he noticed Eli’s hand until it was too late as they were running to the field.
That fake punt in the dallas game was so bad I had to check if Dave had something up for it already
I hope Tom Brady is implicated in further cheating with iron-clad proof he can’t destroy, and blackballed from ever entering the Hall of Fame despite his championships.
Same for Belichick.
Best thing about the actual drawing? B.A.’s old school Tampa hat! Hahahaha….nice
> Cam Newton and his type (the outspoken QB with personality) would get eviscerated for any show of poor sportsmanship. Cam, Baker, OBJ, hell even Kirk Cousins have faced stupid criticism from the media for the crime of showing emotions.
Remember when the media jumped on Baker after Richard Sherman claimed that Baker refused to shake his hand, until they went back and saw it was the other way around, and it was Sherman refusing the shake? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
This is probably one of the weirdest faux controversies I’ve seen in a while. It’s happened once or twice after Brady had an extremely boneheaded mistake that basically cost the Bucs the game (still haven’t gotten over him having an old man moment against Chicago, lmao), and I could imagine that he was just hot pissed and went straight to the locker room to vent. If he did this after every loss, I would understand the narrative, but the issue is that that’s not even true.
After the Saints straight up pantsed him for 60 minutes and he lost by 35, he still shook Drew Brees’ hand after the game. I guess most of America had tuned off by then, but it’s pretty obvious that he is a good sport and just gets mad as shit when he knows that he’s fucked up big time. It’s just extremely weird to see anyone make an issue over this in any regard. Even if I wasn’t a certified Bradytard, I would still find this narrative weird as hell.