Brady, Brain Injuries and Daniel Day Lewis

-So, the Boston media is in an uproar over these photos of Tom Brady that surfaced, showing Brady and supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen laying next to a pool while she is feeding him. Various people are saying this means Brady has gone soft, he's an attention whore and shouldn't he be spending this time rehabbing?

OK, the last one first: this season isn't even over yet. ACL injuries take around 9 months to heal. Brady blew out his knee in September and he's been rehabbing since then. So, he's almost 5 months in and has 7 more months until he has to report for training camp; I think he'll make it. Why don't we allow him a day off now and then? As for the attention whore aspect - if you hate these pictures so much, stop looking. They're famous, so people are going to be taking their picture where ever they go. What do you want them to do, stay inside all day with the curtains drawn?

Now as for Shaugnessy's contention that being fed by a beautiful woman makes you soft - may we all become such pansies. Look, if you're laying there while a woman feeds you lunch it can only mean a few things. You are either:

1. an infant
2. deathly ill
3. a roman emperor.
4. laying some serious pipe.

Maybe Shaugnessy's got such a problem with this because none of those apply to him. Now, we know old Danny ain't deathly sick or an emperor and he's only an infant when it comes to Curt Schilling. Guess you can fill in your own answer here.

The main reason this bothers me is because this opens the door for gossip columnists to weigh in on football related matters. Look, I don't tell you whether or not Angelina Jolie's dress makes her look fat. If you can tell me the difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4, only then you can tell me what you think about how this affects the Patriots.

-So a new medical study released the other day shows that football players' brains are significantly damaged by hard hits which, over time, cause harmful and lasting effects. I, for one, was shocked, shocked I tell you, by this discovery. It's almost as if football is a violent game or something.

OK, I'm not going to harp on the report's annoying statements of the obvious. It's a known fact that a big hit in a football game is the equivalent of being in a serious car crash and that each one of those can take a month off your life. There is a reason that the average NFL career is 4 seasons, and that every year you see players wearing a new type of helmet to cushion big hits. The players today aren't looking to get any smaller and thus, the hits are only going to get harder.

I'm just annoyed that this story gets brought up every year during the week before the Super Bowl. People get all in a lather about it for about 2 days, then football is over for the season and we forget about it until August. Then in August we start back up and people are too busy wondering about who's going to make the 4th tight end spot on the roster to care about players who are retired. Faux-concern is one of my bigger pet peeves with the media. If you really care about something, you won't just bring it up when there is nothing else to talk about.

-After the Celtics game last night there was nothing on TV. So, as I'm flipping around the movie channels I settled on Last of the Mohicans, starring the impressive Daniel Day-Lewis. Now, for a movie that came out in 1992, it has held up pretty well. Solid cast, good pace and awesome score. I've also read the book, so you're probably expecting me to compare/contrast the two. However, despite all that, this movie just makes me think of the hotel we used to stay in when we would go up to Lake George in New York (two pools!). I'm well-travelled like that.