TOM BRADY IS A WICKED LOSAH!

Boston is the greatest sports town in the country, but its fans can sometimes be the worst.
They overreact so badly, it's almost comical. Their knee-jerk reaction could send a football
through the uprights from 80 yards out. Want proof? All you have to do is listen to sports talk
radio in Boston or read all the threads about Tom Brady and his performance against
the New York Jets on Thursday night.

The Patriots quarterback pretty much came unglued as his receivers dropped passes, ran the
wrong routes, and looked at his wife Gisele the wrong way. OK, so the last one didn't happen,
but Brady looked like he was going to go all Mike Rice on his teammates and hurl footballs
at them from close range on the sideline.

In his 14-year career, Brady has dressed down his receivers for blown assignments and dropping
passes before, but nothing like we saw on Thursday night. There were eye-rolls, head shakes, gestures with his hands, and screams at the top of his lungs. His favorite cuddly security blanket,
Wes  Welker is gone. The Gronk is still recovering from injury, Aaron Hernandez is sitting in
prison with all his tattoos, and Danny "China Doll" Amendola is hurt for the 238th time in his
career. It's as if Brady knows that Reche Caldwell, David Terrell, and Bethel Johnson are not
walking through that door, and he's a little pissed.

Brady re-structured his contract to free up money to re-sign Wes Welker and a few other stud
receivers and this is what Belichick gives him? Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins? You'd
be rather pissed off, too. I almost thought Brady was going to bolt a GPS device to the helmet
of Dobson to give him an idea of where to go. If Dobson wasn't a second-round pick, which is
a miracle in itself, he'd be on the unemployment line today keeping Ochocinco company.

Patriots fans are blasting Brady for his pouting, ranting, and for showing up nearly everyone
outside of Robert Kraft. He was far from perfect, they say, overshooting Julian Edelman for
a sure touchdown pass.

Patriots fans: calm the heck down! Brady had a bad game all-around. His throwing, his
demeanor, all of his actions were un-Brady-like. It happens and yes, even to Mr. Wonderful,
Tom Brady. The Patriots have won a ridiculous 77 percent of its games with Brady as the
starting quarterback. He's driven to win, driven to be perfect. It's why the Patriots have won
10 or more games for 10 consecutive games which is incredible.

The Patriots are 2-0 with two division wins. They will be fine. Amendola and the Gronk will
be back soon and the offense will return to normal soon enough. If Brady could win while
throwing to Caldwell and a bunch of misfits seven years ago, he can surely win with this cast
of characters.

Relax, Boston, the Patriots are 2-0, not 0-2. You don't live in Jacksonville, where the Jaguars
have a guy named Blaine Gabbert at quarterback and that makes you already mathematically
eliminated. Things are going to be just fine, Boston. In your city, they usually are.

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WEIGHT LOSS GROUP ACCUSES DEVLIN OF CHEATING

 

Weight-Trimmers, an on-line group specializing in extreme weight loss, has accused Paul
Devlin of cheating on his recent weight loss mission. Devlin lost 29 pounds over a seven month
period by abstaining from booze, bread, butter, baked goods and anything from Baskin Robbins.
The startling accusations come on the heels of a marathon swimming organization that cried
foul on Diana Nyad's record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida.

"I saw Devlin throwing down an Oreo Blizzard from Dairy Queen," said Augustus Gloop,
a senior member of Weight-Trimmers. "I realized he worked there at one time, but he didn't
follow proper protocol and went off the guidelines that he personally set."

  

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who recently had lap-band surgery and dropped 50

pounds because of it, held a press conference to denounce Devlin's claim that he's given up

pizza since February 10. "I have an exclusive photo that clearly shows Devlin devouring

a slice of pizza. It's a clearly a Sicilian slice of pizza. I know my pizza and that is a Sicilian

slice of pizza!"

 

Asked how he obtained the photo, Christie stated, "I have friends in the pizza business. A

lot of friends in the pizza business. I take care of them, they take care of me. There's no denying

it, Devlin was eating a slice of friggin' pizza. Damn, that looks good, I think I'll have an entire

pie for lunch."

 

According to GPS coordinates obtained by TMZ that tracked every move during Devlin's

weight-loss program, there were spikes in activity late at night, which seemed to

become more furious in an area where there were a cluster of McDonald's franchises.

Vince Wilfork, an independent GPS specialists stated the facts were indisputable.

"Look at the number of franchise there. From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Devlin was clearly

frequenting those McDonald's franchises."

 

 

Devlin responded, "I was simply filling out job applications there. There was nothing sinister

going on. I haven't eaten McDonald's since proposing to my fiancé, who became my ex-fiancé

some 13 years ago. I wanted to make some extra cash in my free time. That's it, that's all."

 

Devlin is expected to hold a conference via Skype with the Weight Trimmers group on Sunday

night at 10 p.m. He is expected to reveal his weight-loss program from soup-to-nuts, and possibly

a few bagels. "This was squeaky-clean. I did everything by the book. It's unfortunate, that just

like happened with Diana Nyad, people are trying to take the joy out of my moment."



 

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PAT TILLMAN: A CASUALTY OF 9/11 AND TRUE HERO

Pat Tillman didn't die on 9/11, but like thousands upon thousands of Americans, he died
because of it. Tillman, who was playing with the Arizona Cardinals, was so deeply affected
by the terrorist strikes on our home soil, he gave up his NFL career to enlist in the service
and fight for his country.

"Football's not important to me, serving my country is," Tillman said in 2002. It may not
have been important to Tillman, but it had been what defined him. He went to Arizona
State and was the 1997 Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year as an undersized linebacker.
Tillman didn't have need any change of address cards as the Cardinals, who shared Sun
Devil Stadium with ASU, drafted him in 1998.

A free-spirit, Tillman was converted to free safety by the Cardinals and earned a reputation
as one of the fiercest hitters in the NFL. At one point in his career, Tillman turned down a
5-year, $9 million offer from the St. Louis Rams out of loyalty to the Cardinals.

But that show of loyalty was nothing compared to Tillman's belief that he should fight for
his country. There have been other professional athletes who had their careers interrupted
by a military obligation, but few chose to join the service under their own volition.

Tillman turned his back on a life that most people can only dream of. He was playing in
the NFL and making a good living at. He had the glory, the adulation, and a great future.
9/11 changed all that for Tillman. Despite getting a 3-year, $9 million offer from the Cardinals,
Tillman turned in his football gear for that of an Army Ranger.

How many people would even think about doing that? People say they love our country but
if there was a poll taken, that would probably rank after our love for money, power, sex,
Facebook, and the iPad. And if 10,000 people were asked if they'd give up all that Tillman did
to serve our country, every one of them would've said, "Hell, no! Are you crazy, because
I'm not."

Tillman sacrificed everything. His job, his career, and even his marriage. He got married
to his longtime girlfriend just before enlisting in the military in May of 2002.

Along with his brother, Kevin,  Tillman became a Ranger and went on a few missions before
he was killed by his own battalion in a dangerous canyon in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
It was sad, tragic, and made even worse because the government lied to everybody at first,
saying that Tillman  was a hero and killed by enemy forces. But what Tilman did, giving up
the riches and the good life of the NFL, to serve our country should be admired. He should be remembered  along with the others who fought and died in wars that tried to rid evil and
destruction.

Nobody at Arizona State has forgotten Tillman. They have constructed the Tillman Tunnel
where he will be the last thing players see before going onto the field to take on an opponent.
It's a breathtaking tribute to a man who made the ultimate sacrifice.

As much as people want to make sports bigger than life, it's not. I often shake my head in
disbelief when I here an announcer call a player a "hero" because he threw a game-winning
touchdown pass. I shake my head when they describe a player as having "courage" because
he went over the middle and took a big hit from an opponent. I laugh when they say that
a team has to play "like there is no tomorrow." It's just a bunch of guys playing a kids game,
for crying out loud. Nobody dies.

Pat Tillman is the definition of a true hero, one who showed unbelievable courage im not
only give up the good life, but in fighting for our country. Unfortunately, there never would
be a tomorrow for him. Tillman's life ended tragically in Afghanistan nine years ago.

Tillman, along with all the victims who perished on this day 12 years ago, as well as those
who lost their lives fighting for our country, should always been remembered. Not just on
9/11, but every single day.

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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING FAT GUY

I was fat.

No, I wasn't Chris Christie fat. But when I went home for Christmas dinner, my mom jokingly
asked, "Who invited John Daly? Where is my son?", I knew I wasn't ready to do a photo shoot
for Speedo.

With that harsh dose of reality belting me in the face by my sweet mother, I made my New Year's resolutions, which included dropping 15 pounds. That lasted for about three days as I shattered the guidelines I put down in writing to accomplish that goal. No drinking? Busted. No pizza? Who's kidding who? Working out everyday? Pfffft!

I'll admit it. My one true talent in life is my ability to eat. If I put my mind and mouth to it,
I have little doubt that I could end Joey Chestnut's reign as the hot dog eating champion. I am
that good. If it's not nailed down or moving, I eat it. Giving that up, is not easy. Neither is
trying to get to the gym every day.

I hit rock bottom on February 10 after finishing off two large pizzas and a few pitchers of beer
with some friends. I looked in the mirror and what I saw staring back at me was not pretty.
Forget about a double-chin, my chin and neck had morphed into one. My love handles were
so pronounced that if they had bolted me to an auxillary boat on the Titanic, I would have
saved six additional lives.

FEBRUARY 238 LBS

I tipped the scales at 238, which is great for an NFL tight end, but not good for someone
nearing 50-years old with knees that barked at him every day. Losing weight at this age isn't
easy, either. Metabolism slows to a crawl and motivation comes and goes like men go in and
out of Madonna's bedroom.

I had no choice but to go all in.

Lent was just three days away and I decided to make a lot of sacrifices. To Catholics, Lent
is a period  of six weeks where the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of
luxuries as a form of penitence. Yeah, I had been bad and could use some  self-denial.
I never denied that I was a little  plump and needed to do something extreme. So, I denied
myself of everything bad like booze, bread, butter, baked goods, and anything from Baskin
Robbins for forty days.

MAY 225 LBS

There would be no short cuts like stomach-staples, lap-bands, nutri-slim, nutri-fast, or diets
named after cities or famous doctors. This would be done the old-fashioned way.

I  committed to a hard-core fitness program and was on my way. Those who've read my blog
in the past know that I've battled the bulge with different types of regimes. In 2012, it was
Gorilla training with some yoga mixed in for flexibility and spiritual cleansing. I got in
shape to do half-ironman triathlons, but I never lost as much weight as I had hope to.

This time around, I took up the Forest Gump distance program. I just kept running and
running, until I didn't feel like running no mo'.  Jen-aaaay would've loved that I signed up
for half-marathons in Sleepy Hollow, Brooklyn, Lake Placid, Danbury, Fairfield and Vermont,
and completed them all. Lent ended with Easter and by May, I was down to 225lbs. I felt
much better and my knees stopped barking at me so much. I still had a ways to go to where
I wanted to be, though. When  you eat a plate of pasta at this age, you can add on five
pounds pretty quickly.

Unlike Forest, I haven't stopped running. I also cut out dairy from my diet and tried to stay
away from anything with sugar in it. I continued to deny myself of booze and all the bad stuff
I listed. What did I eat? Chicken, chicken, and more chicken. When I collected enough food
stamps, I sprang for a steak once in a while, but it's mostly been chicken and protein shakes.

JUNE 16 219 LBS

I broke the 220 barrier in mid-June and that was cause for celebration. I hadn't seen a 1 after
the first 2 in a long, long time. One chin down, one to go. No booze, bread, butter, and sweets
and a whole lot of running for four months got me down to 219. My next goal was 210 pounds,
which I hadn't been since I was hanging out with Kevin Costner and talking a little baseball in
1988. Yeah, it was that long ago.

September 1 was my target day for hitting the 210 mark. I did more of the same to try to
get there. Running, running, and more running, plus I mixed in long-distance bike rides and swimming. Sugars ands sweets didn't entice me at all. I began to wonder why the heck I
even ate donuts,  bagels, and Twinkies in the first place. They are pure poison.

SEPTEMBER 209 LBS.

On September 1, I did it. I tipped the scales at 209. That's down 29 pounds since February
10. I didn't even have a double-scoop of chocolate mint chip to celebrate. I'm happy, but I'm
not done. I'd like to get down to 205 by November 1. Everything is easier when you're lighter
Running doesn't hurt as much and since I no longer have to wear a sign that says. "extra wide
load" when I bike, going up hills isn't all that tough anymore.

My pants are actually loose, and I've found that woman between the ages of 85 and 100 have
begun to flock to a slimmer me.

Yes, being lighter sure has its benefits.

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DIANA NYAD AND THE 'CRYING GAME'

 

 

OK, I get it. Athletes and cheating go together like Facebook and our addiction to social
media. Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, SpyGate, name a school on NCAA probation, Lance
Armstrong, A-Rod, NASCAR crews, etc. The list of cheaters in sports is longer than the
Great Wall of China. Heck, even the Chinese badminton team lost on purpose to try to get a
better seed in the London Olympic games.

Cheating has become so prevalent in sports that everyone has become a suspect, especially
when a great feat is accomplished.

Last Monday, 64-year old Diana Nyad, accomplished something truly special when she
became the first person to swim from Cuba to the Florida without a shark cage.

Now, there are skeptics who don't think Nyad's 103-mile swim is legit. Shocking.

A small group of marathon swimmers and their officials don't think a lot of things add
up in Nyad's swim. They are questioning why an independent observer wasn't on her boat
to document every aspect of her swim from her strokes per minute to the number of times
she ate and drink.

There are numbers geeks who have studied the GPS coordinates of Nyad's swim and don't
think everything is on the up and up. Some don't think Nyad followed the English Channel
swim protocol that says you can't wear a special suit, mask, touch the boat or get any kind
of assistance. I'm sure they think Nyad was probably linked to Anthony Bosch and the
Biogenesis Clinic in Miami, too.

My response? Stop, just stop it. Go home and get a life.

Here is a woman who swam 53 hours in flat-out scary waters and did it without a shark
cage and now people want to discredit. Nyad and Nyad alone did the swim. If they are
so obsessed with Nyad's "honesty" then they should get in the water and see if they can
do it. I'll get in my dingy and be their guide. I'll count all your strokes, rub sunscreen on
your face, and even feed you.

Nyad's swim wasn't so much about being "the first", but about the journey. It was about
failing again and again and again and again, and coming back to try until she made it. She
didn't quit and persevered when the odds were stacked against her.

Does this marathon swimming group think that Nyad is the Rosie Ruiz of open water
swimming? Rosie was the runner who hopped on the T in Boston on her way to winning
the Boston Marathon in 1980. Do they think Nyad boarded a nuclear submarine under the
cover of darkness to take her closer to her destination? Do they think that Nyad put fins
on when she wasn't supposed to? Good, Lord.

She swam more than 100 miles! What the heck were you doing during that time? How
come that marathon swimming group didn't beat Nyad to being "the first" to do it without
a cage?

This is what many of the people in our country do. They weren't the first, so they try to
discredit the people who were. They are the armchairs quarterbacks who never played the
game, or weren't good enough to, but they somehow think they can do it better than
the people who are actually in the arena competing.

Fans watching a baseball game see there favorite player swing at a pitch out of the strike
zone and they yell, "What the hell are you swinging at? I wouldn't have swung at that."
Yeah, except that you weren't good enough to get in there against Justin Verlander who
is throwing 98-miles-an-hour with wicked breaking stuff. Yeah, it looks oh so easy on
television.

Nyad did something truly incredible. I don't care if she hung on the side of a boat for
five minutes. Big whoop-de-do. I don't care if she had streamers guiding her at night. Did
that help her physically to finish the swim? Again, Nyad swam more than 100-miles in
the ocean with sharks and who knows what else.

Leave Nyad and her record alone. She got into the ocean, not you, and did what had
never been done before.  Go spend some more time swimming in the ocean than trying
to discredit someone who wanted it more than you did.

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DOS EQUIS GUY VS MIKE NAPOLI: TALE OF THE BEARD

The Dos Equis guy is without question, the most interesting man in the world. But the title
of the most interesting beard in the world, might just go to Mike Napoli of the Boston Red
Sox. He's taking his beard to a whole new level. Here's the tale of the beard: Napoli vs
the Dos Equis guy.


                          The Dos Equis guy's beard is so substantial it shows up on x-rays.

 

                         Mike Napoli's beard is so substantial David Ortiz hides his PED's in it.

            The Dos Equis guy's beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man's entire body.

                          Mike Napoli's beard alone has experienced the body of a porn star.

Last time the Dos Equis guy shaved, he donated a double-king sized comforter to an orphanage.

   Last time Mike Napoli shaved, the Red Sox had a double-king sized reliever called "El Guapo."

If anbody pulls on his beard, the Dos Equis guy has made it clear he will kill you.

 

 

If anybody pulls on his beard, Napoli has made it clear it feels good and you can do it again.

 

                 Eskimos have seven different words to describe the Dos Equis guy's beard.

Bobby Valentine has named seven of his world-famous sandwich wraps after Napoli's beard.

                                 The Dos Equis guy lists his beard his on his donor card

  Mike Napoli doesn't have a donor card, but if he did, he'd list the beard of Johnny Gomes on it.

              When the Dos Equis guy tugs on his beard, the lights go out in his mansion.

          When Mike Napoli tugs on his beard, he hits a bomb to turn the lights out on the Yankees.

 

 

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DEAR JOHNNY: TAKE TOM BRADY'S ADVICE

Tom Brady, the squeaky-clean quarterback of the New England Patriots, became the latest
in a cast of thousands to offer advice to Johnny Manziel, the renegade QB of Texas A & M.

Brady was asked about Johnny Football on CNBC's "Squawk Box" and had some interesting
things to say when it came to the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, including respecting
others in the game.

"So when you look across the ball you have respect for those guys, and you treat them with respect because football’s a physical game," said the future Hall of Fame quarterback, who was "fonted"
by CNBC as, "TB12: THE POWER OF BRADY"

That's right, Johnny Football got hammered for making the "show me the money" gesture
against Rice and got flagged for taunting an opposing player. Brady would never do that
because he's mature and would just walk away from opponents who tried to mess with him.
Mr. Wonderful did just that last year, playing against the Baltimore Ravens. Remember when
he turned the  other cheek when that mean guy Ray Lewis was chirping at him? I don't, but
that must be the "power of Brady."

Brady advised Johnny to treat other players "with respect because football’s a physical game,"
That's right, Johnny, if Ed Reed is trying to take your head off in the open field, make sure
to treat him with respect by castrating him with a size 12 cleat to the groin. Get your leg up
as high as possible to protect yourself. There's nothing illegal about that, is there? That's what
you call, in the words of Arethra Franklin, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respect for other players. Must
be the power of Brady.

Brady also got deep and philosophical during his interview with CNBC, one in which
Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who we found out, goes by a different name with the franchise
quarterback.

 "And as RKK would say, if you’re a turd, it’s going to come back to you." Brady said.

That's right, Johnny, Tom says don't be a 'turd'. If you are, something really, really bad
might happen to you. Interesting, a 'turd' is what a lot of people outside of the hero-worshippers
in New England were calling Brady after he left his pregnant girlfriend, Bridget Monyhan,
for supermodel Gisele. Oh, but he got a pass because with the fans because he's Tom Brady,
of course. It the power of Brady.

 

Brady might have gone unscathed with the public, but being a 'turd' came back to him

with the Karma god's. In the first game of the 2006 season, Brady got torpedoed by

Bernard Pollard of the Kansas City Chiefs and tore his ACL, finishing him for the season.



Johnny, one of your biggest sins is not being born with the Hollywood good-looks of Brady,
then you'd get a pass on a lot of things, like being a fool in Brazil. Remember that? In the
homeland of Gisele, Brady was captured with that Mark Sanchez-like head band in his hair,
dancing like a white man. If that was you Johnny, it would've been tweeted to the world and
you would've been called immature and a punk.

Or, if you were as wholesome and as good-looking as Brady, you could get away with checking
out a female trainer on the sideline and making a devilish gesture to one of your teammates. If
that was you Johnny, Lou Holtz and Mark Maye of ESPN would've called you 'distracted,
classless, and not paying attention to the game.' But with Brady and everybody else, it was just
funny. But Tom is right, Johnny, you have to respect the game.

And remember, Johnny Football, you are a public figure. Everything you do and say is
open for criticism and judgment. I realize you're only 20-years old, but you really should
be perfect and without flaws like Tom Brady. Take his advice and follow his lead. Stay
out of the limelight and out of public places because all those pictures people take, might

just end up on Twitter for the entire world to see. You don't want to be photographed in
a compromising position or have one circulated that people will have make fun of you,
because, after all, Tom Brady would never let that happen. Never. It's the power of Brady

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