Foul Ball
Columnist has had enough with Tom Brady's injury
Josh Briggs
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: News
During the first week of the 2008 NFL season, the man who is probably the best quarterback in the league went down and out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL).
OK, that sucks for him and for the New England Patriots fans, but the rest of football nation does not care enough to hear about it for an entire season.
Who really cares about this injury so much that we have to keep talking and rambling on about it?
If someone like Zach Thomas or Jeremy Shockey were to get hurt, we would only hear about it twice: once during a Fox Sports halftime report and the other time on that night's episode of SportsCenter.
Why not talk about these two professional players for an entire 17-week season?
Is it because they did not throw for 50 touchdowns last season or go 18-1 and lose in the Super Bowl?
This all probably has to do with why they choose to talk about him more, but I believe that any NFL player is just as important as the next NFL player. They all have the exact same title; they are all professionals.
Major League Baseball does the same thing when it comes to talking about the New York Yankees.
Whether they are winning or losing or don't even have a chance at the playoffs, the media is always right there to tell the baseball fans just how good or bad the Yankees are doing - and they fans do not care one bit.
But let's get back on the topic of Tom Brady and the New England "Celebrities". You cannot turn on your television and shuffle through channels to ESPN or the NFL Network without hearing something about Tom Brady and his injury.
It's just a hurt knee! Deal with it.
Fans and media are now saying that the NFL season will not be the same without Tom Brady.
Why not?
There are a whole lot more great quarterbacks in the league to watch other than Tom Brady: Tony Romo for the Dallas Cowboys, Donovan McNabb for the Philadelphia Eagles and even Eli Manning for the New York Giants. I mean, come on now: Manning did beat the miraculous Tom Brady last year in the Super Bowl.
OK, that sucks for him and for the New England Patriots fans, but the rest of football nation does not care enough to hear about it for an entire season.
Who really cares about this injury so much that we have to keep talking and rambling on about it?
If someone like Zach Thomas or Jeremy Shockey were to get hurt, we would only hear about it twice: once during a Fox Sports halftime report and the other time on that night's episode of SportsCenter.
Why not talk about these two professional players for an entire 17-week season?
Is it because they did not throw for 50 touchdowns last season or go 18-1 and lose in the Super Bowl?
This all probably has to do with why they choose to talk about him more, but I believe that any NFL player is just as important as the next NFL player. They all have the exact same title; they are all professionals.
Major League Baseball does the same thing when it comes to talking about the New York Yankees.
Whether they are winning or losing or don't even have a chance at the playoffs, the media is always right there to tell the baseball fans just how good or bad the Yankees are doing - and they fans do not care one bit.
But let's get back on the topic of Tom Brady and the New England "Celebrities". You cannot turn on your television and shuffle through channels to ESPN or the NFL Network without hearing something about Tom Brady and his injury.
It's just a hurt knee! Deal with it.
Fans and media are now saying that the NFL season will not be the same without Tom Brady.
Why not?
There are a whole lot more great quarterbacks in the league to watch other than Tom Brady: Tony Romo for the Dallas Cowboys, Donovan McNabb for the Philadelphia Eagles and even Eli Manning for the New York Giants. I mean, come on now: Manning did beat the miraculous Tom Brady last year in the Super Bowl.
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