I thought only us Paddys celebrated with alcohol
Thatâs top notch parenting âŚ
And people say he canât go deep!
The patriot nation videos are incredible.
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Tom Brady is a great American
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I watched the one for his birthday and itâs mixed in with lord of the rings plus the dark knight. Itâs amazing. I presume they are fanzine of some sorts? Serious dedication to who ever makes the videos.
Tbe play off hype ones are usually top notch also
Thereâs a few great ones alright. They couldnât measure his heart one is unreal too.
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Aaron Hernandez doc?
Weâre still here!! 
pathetic
Please leave this thread.
Ted Karras is headed to a house of horrors this weekend in Miami, in a stadium that has left its mark on every Patriots center for nearly two decades.
The heat is unbearable. The sweat is uncontrollable. The normal concerns about identifying blitzes and getting to the second level take a back seat to something nobody but Tom Brady and his centers ever think about.
âTry to stay as dry as possible,â Karras said.
You know.
Down there.
âI always tell them I donât want to throw a wet ball on a perfectly sunny day,â Brady said.
Karras isnât trying to be funny. He knows this is a prerequisite of his job because, well, everyone who has worked with Brady knows he despises sticking his hands into a swampy situation.
Every center whoâs ever lined up in front of Brady has found out what it feels like to gross out the greatest quarterback of all time. Thereâs a reason he stuffs a towel down the back of his centerâs pants before every game, and Brady makes no apologies about it. Coming up with wet hands is not only gross, but it also impacts how he does his job. It can lead to errant passes, fumbles or bad snaps.
So how intense is Bradyâs disdain for getting a little extra butter on his fingers?
âI have actually tried to train my body not to sweat,â said David Andrews, Bradyâs center the past four seasons who is on injured reserve this year. âSo, I would sit in the sauna and just try not to (sweat).
âIt didnât work.â
Damien Woody was lucky. He was Bradyâs first center, and the quarterback wasnât quite ready to have conversations about the condition of Woodyâs welcome mat. Instead, he would deal with whatever was happening down there and dry his hands when needed.
Woody knew his quarterback wasnât overly enthusiastic about placing his hands into the catch basin where all the sweat dripping down his 330-pound body gathered. He just didnât know what to do about it. A little talcum powder isnât going to make a difference when things get moving during a game. So, since nothing was said, he let nature run its course and laughed in later years when he saw a towel hanging out of the back of his successorsâ pants.
âWhat can you do? I mean, youâre playing in Miami when itâs 90 degrees and the humidity is 100 percent,â Woody said. âAs a center, Iâm like, hell, my job is hard enough. I got to snap the ball. Iâve got a 300-plus-pound man on top of me. Youâre just going to have to deal with the swamp ass.â
After a few years soaking up Woodyâs moisture, the problem didnât get any better when Dan Koppen stepped in.
So instead of just dealing with it, Brady innovated. Thatâs when he decided to shove a towel down the back of Koppenâs pants and see if it helped keep his hands and the ball dry.
Unfortunately, the exact details of this moment were not captured. Koppen doesnât remember having many conversations about dealing with sweat. What probably happened is Brady called him over one day, thrust a towel down the back of his pants and never stopped. The solution isnât perfect. Sometimes, during hot days, the towel needs to be rotated a few times, but, for the most part, it has solved Bradyâs issues.
âThere was a ritual where he would put the towel in. Itâs up to him,â Koppen said. âSo, he put the towel in the centers before the game and made sure (it was in place). You know, I mean, Iâm sure putting your hands back there, I donât think you want to go into a sweaty vat.â
Every center who has come through here after Koppen has worn a towel in the back of his pants. Brady has become more vocal about finding ways to prevent sweat, like telling his centers not to wear a glove during training camp because it absorbs moisture, but the ritual hasnât changed too much over the years.
Still, if youâre new and havenât been around to see or hear about it, having a six-time Super Bowl champion call you over and place a towel in the back of your pants is pretty wild. You know, thatâs just not the kind of thing you envision when looking at him in an UGGs ad.
âIt was something that was very different for me at first, especially when he grabs you as a rookie in training camp and throws a towel down your butt,â Andrews said. âPulling your shorts back, dumping baby powder down your butt. But thatâs part of it, and obviously, if it affects how he operates, you want to be as good as you can about it.â
David Andrews, shown snapping the ball, said itâs just part of the job that Brady will put baby powder down his pants. (Scott R. Galvin-USA TODAY Sports)
Andrews described the relationship with Brady like living with someone, where you learn about each othersâ quirks and differences over time. Maybe you donât agree on how you fold the towels, but you eventually adapt to the quirks and how to live with them. But then one day you figure all that out and find harmony, something like Miami happens, and you realize the quirks are greater than you ever imagined.
The situation is almost like a trap for New England centers. Not only is it hot and humid, but the Dolphins also keep the visitorsâ locker room stocked with big Gatorade towels, which are closer to bath-sized than the hand towels Brady usually stuffs down the back of his centersâ pants. One year when the Patriots were playing in Miami, Dan Connolly was producing a good amount of sweat and was soaking through the hand towels too quickly. The situation was becoming problematic, so Brady found a bath-sized solution.
âHe literally stood behind me, took his hand, and stuck the towel down my pants,â Connolly said. âI walked around that game, feeling like I was carrying a loaded diaper the entire time. It was the most uncomfortable thing, but he was so crazy about not getting his hands wet that he would stuff shit down our pants.â
Did this really happen?
Brady cracks a smile and laughs.
âYeah.â
Connolly will never forget that moment. He also knows no one had it worse than Bryan Stork, who exuded so much sweat that tales of Bradyâs irritation made their way down the line to all the other centers. Hands down, he was the heaviest sweater Brady has ever dealt with over the years.
âYeah, he had so much,â Brady said. âWhen he walked out to practice, it was 30 degrees out, and he would be sweating. Iâd be like, âBro, how are you sweating? Itâs 30 degrees out, and we just started!â
While everyone has jokes about Bradyâs preferences and the extent to which heâll go to satisfy them, New Englandâs centers usually look at their counterparts on other teams each week and wonder why there is no towel hanging from the back of their pants. The practice might seem weird, but it is also smart.
So often, theyâll see the ball slip from a quarterbackâs hands or hear stories about it from other training camps around the league and smile because they know they have the solution sitting right in front of â er, behind â them.
âItâs surprising more people havenât adapted to that around the league, because you do hear stories,â Andrews said.
âJust keep towels rolling through there, and it works magic.â
Really, to Brady, not having a towel back there would be stupid. Big guys sweat. Wet footballs lead to bad passes.
âObviously, these guys are sweating a lot,â Brady said. âTheyâre big guys. Especially in training camp, warm days, thereâs a lot of sweat.â
So, keep those towels fresh, Ted. Otherwise, the halftime show might be one you never forget.
(Photo: Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Brady wouldnât ruin his legacy by fucking off to a piece of shit team .
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Exactly
he can stay with his POS team and POS manager
Tomâs going nowhere. When he finishes with The Patriots theyâll be queuing up with the cheque books to get him on one of the Sunday shows.Heâll be able to name his price.
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Heâd want to be in with a shout of winning soon â And maybe NFC - Chicago? Rams? ---- Possibly Raiders I suppose with California in mind also.